| 游牧民族 | nomad 1. A member of a people or tribe who move from place to place to find pasture and food. 2. Nomads include gypsies, desert tribes such as the Bedouin and the many primitive tribes in the Americas, Asia and Australia. Herding survives as a way of life around the Sahara, in the Middle East, in Asia as far east as western India, and in the Asian parts of the USSR. The end of pastoral nomadism would be regrettable not merely on account of the independence and distinctiveness of this way of life but because this type of economy may be a more rational means of raising large numbers of animals under arid conditions than is capital-intensive ranching (1. 一个民族或部族的成员为寻找牧场和食品从一个地方移动到另一个地方。2.游牧民族，包括吉普赛人、沙漠部落如贝都因人和美洲、亚洲和澳洲的许多原始的部落。在中东的撒哈拉、亚洲东至印度西部、苏联的亚洲部分，放牧作为一种生活方式继续存在。牧民游牧的结束将是令人遗憾的，不仅要考虑这种生活方式的独立性和独特性，而是因为这种经济形式可能是一种在干旱条件下相对资本密集的大牧场来说喂养大量动物更合理的方法。) |
