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ted AHD[tĕd] D.J.[ted]K.K.[tɛd]v.tr.（及物动词）ted.ded, ted.ding, teds 【多用于新英格兰】 - To strew or spread (newly mown grass, for example) for drying.摊晒：为干燥（例如新割的草）而撒开或铺开
- Middle English tedden 中古英语 tedden
注释- In 15th-century Englandthe verbted meant to spread newly cut hay to facilitate its drying. In the mid-19th centuryan American inventor produced a machine to ted the hay automaticallyand called it atedder. Since modern English is inclined to make verbs out of nouns meaning implements or machines,the nountedder became a verb with the same meaning as the original word ted. Tedder, a New England verb,also turns up in those parts of the Midwest that received settlers from New England.在15世纪的英格兰，动词ted 意为铺开新割的草来加速它的干燥。 在19世纪中叶，一位美国发明家制造了能自动摊晒干草的机器，并称之为翻晒机 。 自从现代英语正在倾向于将意为工具或机器的名词变成动词以来，名词tedder 变成了意思与其源词 ted Tedder 一样的动词， 一个新英格兰的动词，也出现在接受从新英格兰来的移民的中西部的地区
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