20090828 -- How Golf Greens Work (1)

How Golf Greens Work
There's more to a golf green than what appears on the surface

Let's imagine that you are standing on a beautiful golf green. The sun is shining, the sky is a bright blue, the birds are chirping in the nearby trees. It is a perfect day.

Now you look down at your feet. The grass is absolutely perfect too. Have you ever wondered how they get the grass on a golf green to be this perfect?

It starts with a backhoe
A backhoe digs a nice big hole the size of the green. The hole might be 12 or 16 inches deep. In the most advanced systems, this hole gets completely lined with plastic to create a gigantic, waterproof tub. The bottom of this tub is covered with drainage pipes and several inches of gravel. A layer of special fabric covers the gravel. Then a foot or so of fine sand goes on top of the fabric and fills up the hole.

You can see what is happening. The grass is not growing in "dirt" at all. The green is very much like a huge flowerpot. The green's grass grows in sand with perfect drainage.


green n. 草坪/果嶺
eg: A new golf green will be built in the hills outside the city.
eg: The green of the golf course aren't in good shape. Some of them
are pretty hard and dry.

green n. 綠色的蔬菜
eg: Mom always makes sure that we eat our greens every day.

chirp v. 鳥發啁啾聲
eg: Every morning, Lisa wakes up to the sound of her pet birds chirping.

gigantic adj. 巨大的/龐大的
eg: Can you jump over that gigantic puddle of water?
eg: The gigantic office building blocked all the sunshine in the mornings.
eg: I don't like my feet. They're gigantic.

fabric n. 織物/織品
eg: This dress is made out of a shiny, blue fabric.

waterproof adj. 防水的
eg: a waterproof paint 防水油漆

soundproof adj. 隔音的
eg: The studio's soundproof material is imported from Germany.

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A backhoe digs a nice big hole the size of the green.

backhoe n. 鋤耕機/怪手(挖土機)
bulldozer n. 推土機

a nice big hole
=> nice在此處用來加強原本的含意，非常的意思
=> a very big hole

That's a nice mess. 真是一團糟

a nice cut 很深的傷口