moor

1. N-VAR A moor is an area of open and usually high land with poor soil that is covered mainly with grass and heather. 荒野[英國(guó)英語(yǔ)]

Colliford is higher, right up on the moors. 考裡弗德更高，正好在荒野之上。

2. V-T/V-I If you moor, or moor a boat somewhere, you stop and tie it to the land with a rope or chain so that it cannot move away. 停泊

She had moored her barge on the right bank of the river. 她已經(jīng)把她的駁船停泊在河的右岸。

I decided to moor near some tourist boats. 我決定挨著一些遊船停泊。

3. N-COUNT The Moors were a Muslim people who established a civilization in North Africa and Spain between the 8th and the 15th centuries A.D. 摩爾人

4. →see also mooring