wold
noun [ C usually plural ] UK uk/wəʊld/ us/woʊld/
山地，高地，荒野
an area of high open land
They went riding out along the ridge of the wold toward Burythorpe. 他们沿着山脊荒野向布瑞索普骑去。
I followed the road up onto the top of the wolds. 我沿着道路向上走到高地荒野的最高处。
Wold （用于英国地名中）...丘陵
used in the names of British places where there is an area of high open land
Stow on the Wold 斯托昂泽沃尔德
the Lincolnshire Wolds 林肯郡丘陵
Beverley is a market town nestling in the Wolds of East Yorkshire. 贝弗利是东约克郡一个被丘陵环抱的集镇。
- More examples
- Up the long slow hill from Sherborne, over the main Oxford to Bath road, there are bleak, windswept wolds, flat as a pancake.
- The Viking Way is a 140 mile route over the Lincolnshire Wolds from the Humber Bridge to Oakham, Leicester.
- She returned home to her birthplace, Ashton Wold in Northamptonshire, to study farming.