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A: Isn’t this great? I always wanted to own a farm, live out in the country, grow my own food!
B: This is very beautiful. Though I have to confess, I don’t know the first thing about farming!
A: That’s fine! Don’t worry about it!
B: What was that?
A: Relax, it was just a goat!
B: And that?
A: It’s just the cows that are grazing over there. We can milk them later.
B: What was that?
A: Honey, seriously, It’s just a sheep. Relax!
A: Relax, that was just the horses and donkeys that are in the stable.
B: You know what? I don’t think I can hack it here out in the countryside. I’m going back to the city!
raze vi.(牲畜)吃青草
Cattle were grazing in the field.
牛在地里吃草。
milk vt.擠(奶)
The milkmaid milks the cows twice a day.
擠奶女工一天兩次為奶牛擠奶。
stable n.馬廄
hack it 能夠經營好
【拓展詞匯】
stall(僅能容一只動物的)小隔欄,隔柵,廄
pig sty n.豬圈
pen n. (家畜的)欄,圈,棚
chicken coop 雞籠
herd n.牧群
A:這不是很棒嗎? 我一直想擁有自己的農場,住在農村,種自己的食物。
B: 那確實好極了。雖然我必須承認你的主意很不錯,但是我對農場一竅不通。
A:沒關系,別擔心那個。
B: 那是什么?
A:放松,那只是頭羊。
B: 哪個呢?
A:牛在那邊吃青草。玩些時候我們得給牛擠奶。
B: 哪個是什么?
A: 親愛的,那只是一只羊,放松,
A:放松,那些只是馬和毛驢在馬廄中。
B: 你知道嗎?我認為在農村我無法經營好農場,我要回城里了。