HEREin the place or situation where something important is happening, rather than somewhere else – used especially in newsreports 在现场〔指重大事件发生的现场;尤用于新闻报道〕
While the politicians talk of peace, the situation on the ground remains tense.
政客们在大谈和平的时候,战场局势依然紧张。
Examples from the Corpus
on the ground• That marked the first time that solarneutrons were detectedon the ground.• The egg is infective on the ground in about two weeks at optimaltemperatures.• He sat cross-legged on the ground and stared into the black grid on the front of the radio. 2.25 p.m.• People on the ground would be trying to blast us out of the air.• Putting these things in place on the ground will be our job.• But when you sleepon the ground a lot, you get to see all sorts of bugs.• That does not say much for the top chasers of the day, which are very thinon the ground.• Over five thousand dead and wounded men were on the ground, in every attitude of distress.