north forty

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A 40-acre section of land, located in the northernmost part of a farm or ranch.
    — I headed out to the barn for a ten-minute milking job, and the cow took off and ran to the far end of the north forty.
  2. Farms, ranches, or agricultural land collectively. broadly,idiomatic
    — In Dallas and Houston, the dominant architectural forms are glass office towers and air-conditioned shopping malls that owe more to the Bauhaus than to the North Forty.
  3. Any remote place. idiomatic
    — [P]arts of him, uh, are as far away as the north forty. Muscle has been drawn out. . . . His arms—can you imagine?—feel longer.

词形变化

north forties plural
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