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 grounds [graɪnd] 添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 场地, 庭院, 理由, 渣滓, 沉淀物

  1. She had adequate grounds for a divorce.
    她离婚有充分的理由。
  2. The prohibition against smoking on school grounds is strictly enforced.
    校园内严禁吸烟。
  3. You have no real grounds for complaint.
    你没有真正的理由发牢骚。


grounds
[ noun ]
  1. your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief

    2. <noun.cognition>
    the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling
  2. the enclosed land around a house or other building

    3. <noun.artifact>
    it was a small house with almost no yard
  3. a tract of land cleared for some special purposes (recreation or burial etc.)

    4. <noun.location>
  4. a justification for something existing or happening

    5. <noun.communication>
    he had no cause to complain
    they had good reason to rejoice
  5. dregs consisting of solid particles (especially of coffee) that form a residue

    6. <noun.object>
    it is a Middle Eastern custom to read your future in your coffee grounds


Home \Home\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic;
not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.

2. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.

3. (Games) In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a
progress; goal; as:
(a) (Baseball) The plate at which the batter stands; same
as {home base} and {home plate}.
(b) (Lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an
opponent's goal; also, the player.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

{Home base} or {Home plate} (Baseball), the base at which the
batter stands when batting, and which is the last base to
be reached in scoring a run.

{Home farm}, {grounds}, etc., the farm, grounds, etc.,
adjacent to the residence of the owner.

{Home lot}, an inclosed plot on which the owner's home
stands. [U. S.]

{Home rule}, rule or government of an appendent or dependent
country, as to all local and internal legislation, by
means of a governing power vested in the people within the
country itself, in contradistinction to a government
established by the dominant country; as, home rule in
Ireland. Also used adjectively; as, home-rule members of
Parliament.

{Home ruler}, one who favors or advocates home rule.

{Home stretch} (Sport.), that part of a race course between
the last curve and the winning post.

{Home thrust}, a well directed or effective thrust; one that
wounds in a vital part; hence, in controversy, a personal
attack.

  1. Many bird species find golf courses and sod farms good feeding grounds, especially in urban areas where these large expanses of green are easy to spot from the air.
  2. Under the direction of grounds superintendent Peter Hatch, the Northeast Vineyard laid out in 1807 was replanted with 21 vinifera varieties (only a few vines of each) in 1983.
  3. Miami federal judge grounds Air Panama, freezing its assets while he decides which Panamanian officials should control the airline.
  4. "Peaceable Kingdom," about a gutsy woman zookeeper who lives right on the zoo grounds with her kids and pet seal, is another one of those warm-hearted family shows that make critics cringe.
  5. The Ivory Coast constitution allows opposition, but those who have tried to activate such political groups have been harassed and their groups have been refused registration on technical grounds.
  6. Lurie's family was given exit visas in 1979, but the authorites revoked them on the grounds of state secrecy because her husband worked in a classified job as a organic chemistry researcher for two years in the 1960s, she said.
  7. Charles spends the days at his office-apartment at Buckingham Palace, often sleeping there, and rushes off to the polo grounds during country weekends, People said.
  8. U.S. District Judge C. Clyde Atkins ruled on technical grounds, said Assistant City Attorney Leon Firtel, who added the decision probably did not allow time for an appeal before the weekend.
  9. Machinists involved in the strike against Eastern have set up a tent city on the airport grounds.
  10. This measure has long been urged by Third World governments but opposed by the United States on grounds that it would encourage inflation.
  11. My favourite slug and snail killer is the admirable Growing Success which is both organic and lethal. You may prefer to give a Bosbag at Pounds 8.39 on the grounds that it sounds like your horticulture partner anyway.
  12. I especially winced at the scene where an interior wall is knocked down on the grounds that 'everything will then be clearer'. Ah, possibly.
  13. The house was built in 1896 for Mrs Gerard Streatfield, in whose family it stayed for nearly 70 years. The 21-acre grounds include a fine terraced western hillside designed by Jekyll; the dry stone walls are planted with sedums and campanulas.
  14. But as the fashion for emerging country shares spreads ever wider, nagging worries surface about the risk of overkill. On technical grounds such concern looks premature.
  15. Also complicating Hoylake's problems in the U.S. are nine lawsuits it filed in federal courts seeking, on constitutional grounds, to take the regulatory decisions out of the commissioners' hands.
  16. Lucius Barker, a political science professor at St. Louis' Washington University who was a Jackson delegate in 1984, said the he-cannot-win argument is becoming a code for opposition to Jackson on racial grounds.
  17. But Levine, who is also the Met's artistic director, has defended the conservative choice on grounds that the company needs a solid production it can live with well into the next century, not one that will seem dated or ill-conceived within a few years.
  18. But his two opponents said they will seek to nullify the election on grounds of fraud and indicated it was unlikely they would join a national unity government.
  19. After protests and lawsuits by advocacy groups, Congress enacted legislation in 1986 broadening the grounds for admission but left discretion in the hands of the director of the Office of Personnel Management.
  20. The British position is also justified on the grounds that support for Mr. Chissano contributes to good relations with the African "frontline" states, whose cooperation is deemed necessary in the larger struggle for Southern Africa.
  21. If EPA can veto this, there really isn't any project that anybody can develop that can pass the EPA." "There are a lot of grounds for (a federal court) appeal," he said.
  22. Chile's mining, fishing, forestry and fruit industries - backbone of the export sector - have been criticised on environmental grounds.
  23. Students stroll across manicured castle grounds to classes in restored 13th-century buildings, all under the watchful and critical eye of the count, who lives in an 18th-century Baroque castle next door.
  24. Messrs. Barakat and Sharif then filed a second suit, challenging the grounds the INS used to deny them amnesty.
  25. Residents pay a monthly fee to Golden Rain: 30% goes to upkeep of the common grounds and 70% goes toward maintenance and services for the mutuals.
  26. She has maintained her innocence during her eight years in prison and sought the new trial on grounds her old lawyer, Donald Eisenberg, had a conflict of interest when representing her.
  27. Tokyo had rejected these demands from the outset, on the grounds that they amounted to numerical import targets.
  28. Also, Mr Clinton may be an easier target on personal grounds, but is much more resilient and combative than the passive Mr Dukakis. Much has been made of this year's British precedent.
  29. Reporters estimated more than 2,000 policemen guarded the grounds of the National Assembly in the picturesque mountain resort of Yangmingshan in Taipei's suburbs.
  30. The sheriff sent out fancy invitations to the hanging, but the Colorado Supreme Court set the verdict aside on the grounds that the legislature had repealed the death penalty during the time Packer was a fugitive.
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