moor /mʊə/ TEM4 ( mooring, moored, moors )

• 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 [英国英语]

  例：

  Colliford is higher, right up on the moors.

  考里弗德更高，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

  例：

  She had moored her barge on the right bank of the river.

  她已经把她的驳船停泊在河的右岸。

  例：

  I decided to moor near some tourist boats.

  我决定挨着一些游船停泊。

• 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. 摩尔人

• 4. 

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