Someone whose family has land holdings across, ideally, the south of France.

一个家庭拥有土地的人，最好是在法国南部。

There were, of course, other land holdings by Great Britain in the Americas at this time.

当然，此时英国在美洲还拥有其他土地。

The area's continued slow growth, however, convinced France that it should sell all of its extensive land holdings in North America to Spain in 1763.

不过该区发展一直迟缓，这使得法国将它在北美洲所占有的广大土地于1763年卖给西班牙。

Initially, no one really paid any attention to John since he had three older brothers, his chances of inheriting the English crown or indeed any significant land holdings were very slim.

起初，没有人真正注意到约翰，因为他有三个哥哥，他继承英国王冠或任何重要土地的机会非常渺茫。

The Pleistocene is sometimes called the Ice Age, when glaciers were constantly ebbing and flowing across the land, holding moisture when they froze and releasing it again when they thawed.

更新世有时被称为冰河时代，当时冰川在陆地上不断退潮和流动，冻结时保持水分， 解冻时再次释放水分。