单词 | zuur-veldt |
释义 | ‖ zuur-veldt S. Africa.|ˈzʊərvɛlt| Also -feldt, zureveld. [Cape Du., = sour country or pasture land: see sour, veld.] A district covered with sour pasturage. Also attrib.
1785G. Forster tr. Sparrman's Voy. to Cape Good Hope I. vi. 249 What are termed by the colonists Zuurvelden or Sour-fields, are such as lie somewhat higher and cooler than the shore, and thus are better supplied with rain than the other plains. 1827T. Philipps Scenes in Albany & Caffer-Land 119 The pasture is all Zureveldt. 1834Pringle Afr. Sk. vi. 203 Long, coarse, wiry grass, of the sort called sour (whence the names Zureberg and Zure⁓veld). 1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (ed. 2) I. 13 Black, zuur-feldt oxen. |

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