fenland

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A kind of low-lying ground, often wet or marshy. countable,uncountable
    — It is this duplication of facilities which is mainly responsible for the poor loadings experienced on the Midland & Great Northern line, apart, of course, from the general sparsity of traffic in Northern Norfolk, and the fenlands around the Wash.

词形变化

fenlands plural

词源

From Middle English fenlond, from Old English fenland, equivalent to fen + land. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foanlound (“moorland”), West Frisian feanlân (“peat bog”), Dutch veenland (“peat bog”), Middle Low German vēnlant, vennelant (“swampy, boggy pastureland”).
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary