音标:[tə:f] ;
turflike
adj.
turf的变形
turf
[tə:f]
n.
草皮;草根泥;草地
[英国英语](铺草坪用的)草皮块;一块草皮
[爱尔兰英语]泥炭,泥煤;一块用作燃料的泥煤
[the turf] 赛马;赛马场
领地;活动领域;地盘;领域,范畴;学科
[美国俚语](街头流氓集团的)地盘;势力范围
vt.
用草皮覆盖:
to turf a garden
给一个园子铺草皮
[英国口语]猛推;催逼;驱逐;打发;遣散;赶走(与out连用):
She turfed the cat out of the chair.
她把猫从椅子上赶走。
The bartenders turfed him out of the bar when he started making a disturbance.
当他开始在酒吧闹起来时,侍者将他撵走了。
[美国英语]摆脱(不必要的)病人;使多余的病人转房
短语:
on the turf
以赛马为业;赛马场上的赌客
[美国俚语]卖淫
[美国俚语]不名一文,手头缺钱
变形:
n.
turfs
. turves

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actuating member
after-care
animal embryo transfer
apparement
applied magnetics
arken
assessment center
aulostomidaes
aviation specification isopropyl nitrate (monofuel)
Bald Eagle Lake
bedding fault
bicolons
bitternut(hickory)
bobdean
Bourdon spring
bywards
calathiformis
calculate by inspection
Canadian Airline Pilot's Association
card-sortings
casing spear
Coelurosauria
come of scot scot-free
communication processing system
contro-
dog ship
dominant language
double cloth weave
dust-cooled reactor
Dzhatka
enteric disease
ethanoyl radicals
eucnemidal
fellow citizens
flash butt welding machine
flexion vertebrae
free mode
freely-moving carriage
front page
grets
hairspray
hygrometrically
isocyanilic acid
Jimmy Riddle
kelep
key-presses
Lark Rise to Candleford
Leonarisson
live pit
love letters
LSA diode
mailing merge
make good use of talent
maline tie
margin cover
master timer
matching program
maximum allowable deflection of tray column
meristemoids
mmuss
o-phenetidine
Old World mistletoe
Otterup
overhang echo
pants suit
per capita levy
peta-grays
petasilide
plastic instrument
post-moshing syndrome
Pott's curvature
Pseudopogonatherum contortum
psoraleae fructus
pulldown
repaying
reprimand sb for sth
reverse power protection
scientific intuition
scrofulaweed
search tree property
slow art
soft collar
solid state fermentation
squoke
structure of worked metal
subducting lithosphere
support on
swamper
swash bar
synapticulum
synthofil
taker of an option
through rates
torigai
tropo
undepreciated
vertical character tabulation
viscontiss
visible persistence
whuph
yellowbrush
zero defects(zd)