orchard: [OE] Etymologically, an orchard is probably simply a ‘plant-yard’. It appears to have been coined in the prehistoric Germanic period from *worti-, the ancestor of the now archaic English noun wort ‘plant, vegetable, herb’ (which is distantly related to root), and *gardaz, *gardon, forerunner of English yard and garden. Originally, as its derivation suggests, it was quite a broad term, covering vegetable gardens as well as enclosures for fruit trees, but by the 15th century it had more or less become restricted to the latter. => garden, yard
orchard (n.)
late Old English orceard "fruit garden," earlier ortgeard, perhaps reduced from wortgeard, from wort (Old English wyrt "vegetable, plant root") + geard "garden, yard" (the word also meant "vegetable garden" until 15c.); see yard (n.1). First element influenced in Middle English by Latin hortus (in Late Latin ortus) "garden," which also is from the root of yard (n.1).
实用例句
1. Each bamboo house was surrounded by a thriving orchard.
每座竹楼周围都是茂密的果园.
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2. She hired out to the owner of an apple orchard.
她受雇于一个苹果园主.
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3. My orchard is bearing well this year.
今年我的果园果实累累.
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4. Until his death in 1986 Greenwood owned and operated an enormous pear orchard.
到他1986年去世前，格林伍德一直拥有并管理着一片面积广阔的梨园。
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5. A hundred acres of land was made into a peach and pear orchard.
