landscape

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈlan(d)skeɪp/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features. countable,uncountable
    — Piſcat[or]. [...] [T]heſe Hills though high, bleak, and craggy, breed and feed good Beef, and Mutton above ground, and afford good ſtore of Lead within. / Viat[or]. They had need of all thoſe commodities to make amends for the ill Land-ſchape: [...]
  2. A portion of land which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects thus seen. countable,uncountable
    — The rolling Chocolate Hills of Bohol in the Philippines could easily be mistaken for a child’s landscape drawing.
  3. A sociological aspect of a physical area. countable,uncountable
    — In light of such conceptualisations of the power of linguistic landscapes, we set out to examine the connection between the visual landscape and the spoken landscape in our institution[.]
  4. A picture representing a real or imaginary scene by land or sea, the main subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water, etc. countable,uncountable
    — The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.
  5. The pictorial aspect of a country. countable,uncountable
  6. a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides uncountable
  7. A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape") countable,uncountable
  8. a situation that is presented, a scenario countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — The software patent landscape has changed considerably in the last years
动词 v.
  1. To create or maintain a landscape.

词形变化

landscapes plural landskip alternative,obsolete landscapes present,singular,third-person landscaping participle,present landscaped participle,past landscaped past landskip alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from Middle English *landschippe, *landschapp, from Old English landsċipe, landsċeap (“region, district, tract of land”); in some senses from Dutch landschap (“region, district, province, landscape”), from Middle Dutch landscap, lantscap (“region”), from Old Dutch *landskepi, *landskapi (“region”). Cognate with Scots landskape, landskep, landskip (“landscape”), West Frisian lânskip (“landscape”), Low German landschop (“landscape, district”), German Landschaft (“landscape, countryside, scenery”), Danish landskab (“landscape, countryside”), Swedish landskap (“landscape, scenery, province”), Icelandic landskapur (“countryside”). By surface analysis, land + -ship.
词源 2
From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from Middle English *landschippe, *landschapp, from Old English landsċipe, landsċeap (“region, district, tract of land”); in some senses from Dutch landschap (“region, district, province, landscape”), from Middle Dutch landscap, lantscap (“region”), from Old Dutch *landskepi, *landskapi (“region”). Cognate with Scots landskape, landskep, landskip (“landscape”), West Frisian lânskip (“landscape”), Low German landschop (“landscape, district”), German Landschaft (“landscape, countryside, scenery”), Danish landskab (“landscape, countryside”), Swedish landskap (“landscape, scenery, province”), Icelandic landskapur (“countryside”). By surface analysis, land + -ship.
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