Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense moors, present participle mooring, past tense, past participle moored
1N-VAR (主要生长杂草和石南的)高原贫瘠之地,荒野,旷野 A moor is an area of open and usually high land with poor soil that is covered mainly with grass and heather. (主要生长杂草和石南的)高原贫瘠之地,荒野,旷野 [mainly British]
Colliford is higher, right up on the moors.
科利福德位置更高,就在荒野之上。
Exmoor National Park stretches over 265 square miles of moor.
埃克斯穆尔高地国家公园位于高原贫瘠之地,占地265平方英里。
SYN moorland, fell [British], heath, muir [Scottish]
2VERB (使)(船)停泊;系泊 If you moor a boat somewhere, you stop and tie it to the land with a rope or chain so that it cannot move away. (使)(船)停泊;系泊
She had moored her barge on the right bank of the river. [VERB noun]
3N-COUNT [usually plural]摩尔人(公元8至15世纪在北非和西班牙建立文明,信奉伊斯兰教) The Moors were a Muslim people who established a civilization in North Africa and Spain between the 8th and the 15th century A.D. 摩尔人(公元8至15世纪在北非和西班牙建立文明,信奉伊斯兰教)
(especially BrE) ADJECTIVE | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤bleak, desolate, open, wild, windswept荒涼的沼澤;開闊的沼澤地;荒蕪的沼澤;受大風侵襲的沼澤PREPOSITION➤across the moor穿過沼澤◇the wind blowing across the moors吹過沼澤的風➤down from the moor從沼澤往下◇the slopes leading down from the moor從沼澤地往下的斜坡➤on the moor在沼澤地上◇We got lost on the moors.我們在沼澤地裏迷路了。➤over the moor越過沼澤◇Don't walk over the moors in bad weather.天氣不好的時候不要徒步過沼澤。PHRASES➤the edge of the moor沼澤邊緣