paddock

放牧場、囲い牧場

馬などの家畜が草を食べたり運動したりする、通常は柵で囲まれた小さな草地。

やさしい英語で： A small grassy field, usually fenced, where horses or other farm animals eat or exercise.

• The pony is in the paddock.
• We watched the horses running around their paddock.
• She closed the paddock gate after feeding the mare.

類義語： enclosure, field

よく使う表現： horse paddock, small paddock, in the paddock, paddock fence

牧草地、放牧場

特にオーストラリアやニュージーランドで、牛や羊を飼う草地。

やさしい英語で： A grassy field, especially in Australia or New Zealand, where cattle or sheep are kept.

• The sheep filled the paddock.
• We moved the cattle into a larger paddock.
• The dry paddocks stretched for miles beyond the farmhouse.

類義語： pasture, field

よく使う表現： sheep paddock, large paddock, back paddock, paddock gate

カエル

滑らかな皮膚と長い後ろ脚を持ち、水辺に住んで跳びはねる小動物。

やさしい英語で： A small animal with smooth skin and long back legs that jumps and lives near water.

• A paddock jumped into the pond.
• We heard paddocks calling beside the marsh.
• The old poem describes a green paddock on a stone.

類義語： frog

よく使う表現： a green paddock, paddock in water

ヒキガエル

皮膚がでこぼこしていて、主に陸上で暮らすカエルの仲間。

やさしい英語で： A small animal like a frog, with rough skin, that usually lives on land.

• A paddock hid under the stone.
• The witch kept a paddock beside her door.
• The tale mentions paddocks crawling through the damp garden.

類義語： toad

よく使う表現： a brown paddock, paddock under something

放牧する、牧場に入れる

草を食べられる草地に家畜を入れたり、そこで飼ったりする。

やさしい英語で： To put or keep farm animals in a grassy field where they can eat.

• We paddock the horses overnight.
• The farmer paddocked her cattle near the river.
• All the sheep were paddocked before the storm arrived.

使い方： paddock animals in something (They paddocked the horses in a field near the house.)

類義語： pasture

よく使う表現： paddock the horses, paddock cattle, paddock the sheep

柵で囲う

家畜を飼えるように土地の周囲に柵を設ける。

やさしい英語で： To put a fence around land so that animals can be kept there.

• They paddocked the land last spring.
• We plan to paddock another five acres.
• The farmer had paddocked the field with wire fencing.

類義語： fence, enclose

よく使う表現： paddock the land, paddock a field

含金土を掘り出す

洗って金属を取り出す価値がある、地表に近い土を掘り出す。

やさしい英語で： To dig out shallow earth containing enough metal to make washing it worthwhile.

• The miners paddocked the shallow deposit.
• They paddocked the ground before washing the gravel.
• This patch had already been paddocked by earlier gold miners.

類義語： excavate

よく使う表現： paddock a deposit, paddock the ground