prairie

（北美的）大草原n.

• "Appalachian Spring" by Aaron Copland invoked the atmosphere of the wide open spaces of the prairies.

  艾伦·科普兰的《阿帕拉契亚的春天》使人想起了那种辽阔草原的氛围。

• The parade extended over kilometers of prairie.

  游行队伍在大草原上绵延数公里。

• For the first 300 or so years of European settlement, the story was about moving outward: getting immigrants to the continent and then to the frontier to clear the prairies, drain the wetlands and build new cities.

  在欧洲定居开拓的头300余年里，他们的故事是关于向外迁移的：把移民带到欧洲大陆，然后到边疆开垦大草原，排干湿地，建造新城市。