这两个词共同的意思是“农场”。它们的区别是:
farm指农场、农庄、也可指畜牧场、养殖场等; ranch为美式英语,指比较大的农场,尤指畜牧场。例如:
During the university vacation he worked on a farm.大学放假期间,他在一个农场干活。
Tom has a cattle ranch in California.汤姆在加州有一个大畜牧场。
谐音记忆法
还可以谐音:燃起,大农场燃起大火。
词源记忆法
来自美式西班牙语rancho,农场,农庄,来自西班牙语rancho,一起吃饭的人,来自古法语ranger,扎寨,安营,安置,来自rang,排列,布置,词源同range,rank.
重要短语
ranch house低矮的平房
dude ranch度假牧场;观光牧场或农场
Ranchers employed them to take care of the cattle and work on the ranch.
那里的农场主雇用他们照管牛群,为农场工作.
来源:互联网摘选What you call it? Double K Ranch . No. You from around here? Yeah, born and raise.
你说 哪里 ?双K大农场. 没听过.你是这里人 吗 ?是的, 土生土长.
来源:网络文摘精选He plans to fence in about 100 acres of his ranch five miles north of town.
他计划将他镇北5英里处的约100英亩牧场圈起来。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》He left his Montana ranch to his spinster sister.
He went to work on a ranch.他去一个大农场干活。他把他在蒙大拿州的大牧场留给了他未婚的妹妹。
来源:互联网摘选On his ranch in Crawford, Texas, the President keeps longhorn cow named Ofelia.
在他得克萨斯州Crawford农场, 布什总统养着一头名叫Ofelia的长角牛.
来源:网络文摘精选They had to buy everything at inflated prices at the ranch store.
他们不得不在农场商店以高价购买所有东西。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》The carcass of calf killed by the jaguars that inhabit the native forest bordering a ranch.
紧邻牧场的原始森林内栖息的美洲虎袭击,小牛陈尸野外.
来源:网络文摘精选In the winter of 1898, Rogers fell heir to a ranch near Claremore.
在1898年冬, 罗杰斯继承了克来尔莫尔附近的一座牧场.
来源:网络文摘精选These examples barely touch future prospects in the technology of farm and ranch management.
这些例子几乎都没有涉及到未来农牧业管理技术的展望.
来源:词典精选例句In agricultural areas, though, it can mean an extra day of helping on the family ranch.
而在农业地区, 就意味着额外多出了一天来帮助家庭的农场.
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