acre

• n. 土地，地产；英亩

来自词根agro, 农业，农田，见agriculture,农学。在古英语里指一块土地，后量化为一头牛一天所能耕作的土地，即1英亩。

1. a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries

acre

acre: [OE] Acre is a word of ancient ancestry, going back probably to the Indo-European base *ag-, source of words such as agent and act. This base had a range of meanings covering ‘do’ and ‘drive’, and it is possible that the notion of driving contributed to the concept of driving animals on to land for pasture. However that may be, it gave rise to a group of words in Indo- European languages, including Latin ager (whence English agriculture), Greek agros, Sanskrit ájras, and a hypothetical Germanic *akraz.

By this time, people’s agricultural activities had moved on from herding animals in open country to tilling the soil in enclosed areas, and all of this group of words meant specifically ‘field’. From the Germanic form developed Old English æcer, which as early as 1000 AD had come to be used for referring to a particular measured area of agricultural land (as much as a pair of oxen could plough in one day).
=> act, agent, agriculture, eyrie, onager, peregrine, pilgrim

acre (n.)

Old English æcer "tilled field, open land," from Proto-Germanic *akraz "field, pasture" (cognates: Old Norse akr, Old Saxon akkar, Old Frisian ekker, Middle Dutch acker, Dutch akker, Old High German achar, German acker, Gothic akrs), from PIE *agro- "field" (cognates: Latin ager "field, land," Greek agros, Sanskrit ajras "plain, open country").

Originally in English without reference to dimension; in late Old English the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plow in a day, afterward defined by statute as a piece 40 poles by 4, or an equivalent shape (5 Edw. I, 31 Edw. III, 24 Hen. VIII). Original sense retained in God's acre "churchyard."

The castle, which is located on 11,700 acres, was leased to members of the royal family between 1848 and 1970, including King Edward VII and George V.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

At other times the cow wandered around the 526 acre park and the artificial grass field normally used for human sporting events.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

It is polluting millions of acres of cropland.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下 水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

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One acre of farmland use to for raising cows can produce 250 pounds of beef.

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One acre of farmland use to for crop production can produce 1,500 pounds of tomatoes

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The national average farm size is around 440 acres, but his is only one acre.

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

On a mere 1/10 of an acre in Los Angeles, Loe and her family grow, can(装罐) and preserve much of the food they consume.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Negotiated by USFWS and the states, the plan requires individuals and businesses that damage habitat as part of their operations to pay into a fund to replace every acre destroyed with 2 new acres of suitable habitat .

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

3 000 acres of parkland

3 000英亩开阔绿地

牛津词典

a three-acre wood

一片三英亩的林地

牛津词典

(informal)Each house has acres of space around it (= a lot of space) .

每座房屋四周都有大量空地。

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The property is set in two acres of land.

这座房产占地两英亩。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The God's acre let out to the dead per square foot is rising.

公墓出租给死者的租金在上升.

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Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood, also have many different moods.

百亩林里的小熊维尼和他的朋友们也有各种各样的心情和感受.

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He estimates that 225 millions of spiders are in a lawn per acre.

他估计每英亩草坪里有225万多只蜘蛛.

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It was not possible with one acre of arable land to make a living.

饱受饥荒之苦的憔悴面容到处都是,要靠一英亩耕地生活是不可能的.

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The playground covers over an acre in extent.

操场的面积超过一英亩.

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What is the yield per acre?

每英亩的产量是多少?

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The shepherd has penned up the sheep in the four acre field.

牧羊人把羊群围在那块四英亩的土地上.

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One authority made a census of the spiders in a grass field in the south of England, and he estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre.

一位权威对英国南方一块草坪上的蜘蛛作过统计, 他估计每英亩有2,250,000多只蜘蛛.

《用法词典》

In large acre laser alertness, laser scattered by atmosphere was depended on.

在大面积激光警戒中, 主要是探测被大气散射的光.

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Planted cane may yield up to seventy tons per acre in good soil.

要是土质好,种的甘蔗每英亩可产到70吨.

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The families of the four murdered farmers received half an acre more than the others.

此外,对那四位被地主杀害的农民的家属给予了适当的照顾,每户多分了三亩来地.

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Our house is on an acre of land which gives us a nice big backyard for our garden.

我们的房子坐落在一英亩的土地上,因而后院地方很大,可供我们辟为花园.

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Intramusclar fat contents acre distinctively higher sired by crossbred Duroc than by pure animals.

台系杜洛克所配后代的胴体瘦肉率最高.

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Some drugs acre used before or after operation for improvement of microcirculation.

早期行局部减张术,术前、术后采用小分子右旋糖酐及血管活性药物处理.

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The acre of garden is host to a splendid bank of rhododendrons.

一英亩见方的花园生长出一大片绚烂的杜鹃花.

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He is the wisest amongst all the animals living in the 100 Acre Wood.

他是最聪明的动物在生存在100英亩的木材.

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It is a 6,000 acre campus , located in San Luis Obispo, California.

它位于加洲的圣.路易思.欧比斯勃, 占地6000英亩.

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