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turf
释义
- n.
- 草皮；（铺草坪用的）草皮块；泥煤；泥炭
- v.
- 用草皮覆盖
- 网络
- 草地；地盘；势力范围
展开详细释义
n.
1.草地,草坪
2.草皮,草根土;草地
3.〔美俚〕(流氓集团的)地盘,势力范围
4.地盘,山头
5.赛马场;赛马
6.草炭
7.粗泥炭
8.草根层
9.泥煤
10.乡土
v.
1.把(地面)铺上草皮
2.赶出,驱逐
词形变化
复数：turfs 现在分词：turfing 过去式：turfed
常用短语 2 组
- on the turf
- ◎以赛马为业；赛马场上的赌客
- artificial turf
- 人造草皮
在例句中理解 31 句
Back in 1949, the Centre Court ball boys had to chase a squirrel off the hallowed turf while the players sat down to await the all-clear.
1949年，中央球场的球童们不得不将一只松鼠逐出赛场，而选手们只好坐等“警报解除”。
The piece of turf, with the little daisy in it, was thrown out on the dusty highway.
那块带着小雏菊的草皮，被扔出在灰尘弥漫的公路。
Again there was no difference in the incidence of total number of complaints between the grass and turf teams.
在天然草坪球队和人造草坪球队之间，慢性疼痛的发生率仍然没有区别。
But HTC's rapid growth, especially in Apple's American home turf, has made it a competitor worth worrying about.
但是HTC的快速增长，尤其是在苹果公司的美国本土市场，已经让它的竞争对手担忧了。
Rooney appeared to mouth "12 men, 12 men" into a television camera as he departed the turf at the final whistle.
鲁尼在比赛结束后离开球场的时候好像在对着电视摄像说着“十二个人，十二个人”。
But its rapid growth, especially on Apple's American home turf, has made it a competitor to reckon with.
但是它的迅速成长，尤其是在苹果的主场——美国的优异表现让它成为了一个需要顾及的对手。
If this were just a turf war between criminal gangs, things might be brought under control.
如果这只是犯罪团伙之间的一场地盘争夺战，情势视乎是可控的。
The researchers re-examined their data to better understand why players who train on turf seem to have more chronic back pain.
研究人员重新审查了他们所获得的数据，以便更加清楚地了解为何在人造草坪上训练的运动员似乎遭受更多的腰痛。
Such a deal, he said, "would make them a home turf player even if they are a foreign player. "
他说这类交易“将让这些业者成为本地厂商，即便他们实际上是外资。”
He was looking at it as an opportunity, because finally Lee was going to be off his home turf in Virginia.
相反，他把罗伯特的进攻看成了一次机遇，因为最终罗伯特李将会离开他在弗吉尼亚的势力范围。
Whatever the truth, Mr Saleh's presence on his home turf may have calmed things a bit, for the moment, at least in Sana'a.
无论真相如何，萨利赫出现在自家草坪上可能会让事态暂时有所平静，至少在萨那。
And, in a time of shrinking budgets, turf battles between the fusion centers and federal law enforcement are a certainty.
并且，在预算收缩的时期，必须掩盖联合中心与联邦执法部门之间争夺资金的斗争。
These companies often bring out their most advanced products on their home turf a year or two before they ship them around the world.
这些公司常常把它们最先进的产品在本国市场销售，一两年以后才运往世界各地。
As he scrambled back in hopeless despair he must have wanted to dig himself into the turf.
格林无望地往回爬时，肯定想在草皮上给自己挖个坑埋进去。
a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club).
从草坪或航路上被动物或高尔夫俱乐部挖去的一块草皮。
Each of these players has fiercely defended its turf in the discussions leading up to Wednesday's proposal.
在周三的提案的先导性讨论中，上述各家参与其中的监管机构都奋力维护自己的职权范围。
The people looking at me were not aiming to frighten me in anyway; they were just intrigued by the 'Lao Wai' on their turf.
但无论如何，那些人看你不是想和你打架，他们只是被在他们地盘的“老外”激起了好奇心。
The British pavilion would be completed at the end of this month after artificial turf was laid.
目前，英国馆的建设只剩人工草皮的铺设，不日即可全部完工。
As the ball hit the back of Liverpool's net, George sank to the Wembley turf and lay on his back with his arms outstretched.
在洞穿利物浦的网窝后，乔治伸开双臂躺在了温布利的草皮上。
Both cities have been caught up in turf wars between drugs gangs fighting over lucrative smuggling routes.
两个城市被卷入贩毒集团的利益争夺的地盘之争中
The meeting itself was an embarrassment for France on its own turf.
对法国来说，此次峰会就是在自家门前丢脸。
A verdant scum upon the surface of deep pools simulated the turf that had been removed.
深潭表面上青绿的浮藻给人一种假像，好像草地被转移了。
As government spokesmen have pointed out, however, Sri Lanka's voters will at least have the chance to turf him out in six years' time.
正如政府发言人所指出，尽管如此，斯里兰卡选民至少有机会在六年后使其下台。
But unlike Bill Clinton, who turned his wife into an unlikely Arkansan, Obama planted himself on his wife's turf.
但是克林顿把他妻子变成了阿肯色州人，而奥巴马则将自己根植在他妻子的地盘上，这是他们的不同之处之一。
If psychiatrists are so protective of their turf to think they're the only ones who can do this, it's just self-serving and arrogant.
如果精神科医生从于保护自己地盘的考虑，而认为他们是唯一可以在此领域做事的人，那只能说他们是过于自私和自大。
This responsiveness to reward thus works like the desire for new sensation: It gets you out of the house and into new turf.
这种对奖励的反应就像对新感觉的渴望一样在起作用：它让你走出家门进入新的活动领域。
There's a little flower up yonder, the last bud from the multitude of bluebells that clouded those turf steps in July with a lilac mist.
那边有一朵小花，七月里跟紫丁香一起布满在那些草皮台阶的蓝钟花就剩这一朵啦。
Since powers can spread this disease, mow diseased areas last, and wash turf clippings off the mower before proceeding to the next site.
由于除草机能传播该疾病，最后再到发病地区除草，并在开往下一个除草地点之前将除草机上草屑冲洗干净。
When it's unusually high and stiff, the dog is agitated and ready to protect his turf.
当狗狗极不爽且身体紧张时，狗狗是充满攻击性做好保护自己地盘的准备。
The intent to override "turf wars" is a clear hint to Congress that political rivalries will not be allowed to stymie reform.
其压倒“地盘争斗”的用意，对美国国会是一道明确暗示：不允许政治对立阻挠改革。
soft green turf
柔软的绿色草皮