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a unit for measuring an area of land; 4 840 square yards or about 4 050 square metres 英亩(4 840 平方码,约为 4 050 平方米) 3 000 acres of parkland 3 000 英亩开阔绿地 a three-acre wood 一片三英亩的林地 - (informal)
Each house has acres of space around it (= a lot of space). 每座房屋四周都有大量空地。
Word OriginOld English æcer (denoting the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plough in a day), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch akker and German Acker ‘field’, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit ajra ‘field’, Latin ager, and Greek agros.