sandpit
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
- A place or pit from which sand is excavated.
- A children’s play area consisting of a large container filled with sand.
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A small-scale illustrative model of the theater of war in the Middle East.
— Originally designed to illustrate Kuwait and the oil pipelines, the 'sandpit', based on maps and photographs to a scale of 1:1,000,000, was extended to include other countries.
词源
From Middle English sandpitte, sandpette, sandpütte, from Old English sandpytt (“sandpit”), equivalent to sand + pit.
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