| 单词 |
Middleveld |
| 释义 |
Middleveld S. Afr.|ˈmɪd(ə)lfɛlt, -vɛlt|
Also -veldt.
[Partial tr. Afrikaans Middelveld, lit. ‘intermediate region’.]
A region in East and West Transvaal lower than the Highveld but higher than the Lowveld, between 3,000 and 4,000 feet above sea-level. Also transf.
1877C. Warren Diary 17 July in On Veldt in Seventies (1902) 225 We arrived at a settlement station in the Middle Veldt, forty miles from Worcester, 2800 feet above it. 1878A. Aylward Transvaal To-Day 25 The nearer and more recently settled district called the ‘Middleveld’ of the Orange Free State. 1929[see lowveld]. 1931Discovery Aug. 259/2 There are two cotton breeding stations in the Transvaal; one at Rustenberg, where problems connected with the improvement of cottons for middle-veld areas are dealt with. 1939tr. E. N. Marais's My Friends the Baboons v. 55 It was in the middle-veld between the Palala and the Magalakwen. 1955J. H. Wellington S. Afr. I. i. iii. 72 These two regions..have important points of dissimilarity, the chief of which are the greater altitude and humidity of the highveld and the greater areas of pre-Karoo surfaces in the middleveld. 1972Farmer's Weekly (S. Afr.) 21 Apr. 11 Normal dryland conditions in the Rhodesian middleveld. |
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