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livestock pen; plank road; inn
Meanings
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bamboo/wooden pen for livestock
Used to enclose horses, sheep, cattle and other farm animals.
Twenty fine horses are raised in the horse pen on the farm.
The herdsmen drove the flock into the sheep pen to shelter from the cold wind.
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After renovation, the cattle pen of Old Li's family can hold thirty yellow cattle.
noun
plank road built along cliffs
literaryA narrow road built with wooden planks along steep cliff faces, common in ancient mountainous transportation.
The roads into Sichuan are hard to traverse, harder than climbing to the sky, and the Jiange plank road is famous worldwide.
Archaeologists found a well-preserved ancient plank road relic deep in the Qinling Mountains.
noun
warehouse; inn; guesthouse
Can refer to storage warehouses for goods or roadside inns for travelers.
This inn is located at the entrance of the ancient city, with very convenient transportation.
The warehouse near the port is full of containers just shipped from overseas.
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Travelers in ancient times usually stopped at roadside inns to rest overnight.
This century-old inn has over a hundred years of business history.
We booked two river-view rooms at the riverside inn in the ancient town.