pas·ture /ˈpæsʧɚ/
 牧場,草地,牧草(vt.)放牧(vi.)吃草


 Pas·ture, v. i. To feed on growing grass; to graze.

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 Pas·ture n.
 1. Food; nourishment. [Obs.]
    Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous.   --Spenser.
 2. Specifically: Grass growing for the food of cattle; the food of cattle taken by grazing.
 3. Grass land for cattle, horses, etc.; pasturage.
    He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.   --Ps. xxiii. 2.
    So graze as you find pasture.   --Shak.


 Pas·ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pastured p. pr. & vb. n. Pasturing.] To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.


 pasture
      n 1: a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for
           grazing by livestock [syn: pastureland, grazing land,
            lea, ley]
      2: animal food for browsing or grazing [syn: eatage, forage,
          pasturage, grass]
      v 1: let feed in a field or pasture or meadow [syn: crop, graze]
      2: feed as in a meadow or pasture; "the herd was grazing" [syn:
          crop, browse, graze, range]