ploughs

英 [plaʊz]

美 [plaʊz]

n.  犁; 北斗七星; 大熊星座
v.  犁(田); 耕(地); 翻(土)
plough的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

in AM, use 美国英语用 plow


• See also:snowplough
• VERB 犁（地）；耕（地）
  When someoneploughsan area of land, they turn over the soil using a plough.
  1. They ploughed nearly 100,000 acres of virgin moorland.
     他们犁了将近10万英亩未开垦的高沼地。
  2. ...a carefully ploughed field.
     仔细犁过的田地
• PHRASE （土地）被开垦成耕地
  If an area of land isunder the plough, it is used for growing crops. If land is brought or putunder the plough, it is ploughed for the first time and is then used for growing crops.
  1. There was not one inch of soil that was not under the plough.
     没有一寸土地未被开垦成耕地。
  2. ...as we put more and more wilderness under the plough.
     随着我们将越来越多的荒地开垦成耕地
• toplough a furrow→ see:furrow

双语例句

• The ploughs were not in use and were rusting away.
  这些犁废弃不用，正慢慢生锈腐蚀。
• The period from the Qin to the early Eastern Han dynasty saw a transition in Chinese agricultural production from farming with hoes and spades into farming with ploughs.
  秦至东汉中期，我国农业生产仍处于由锄、锸耕向犁耕过渡时期。
• The King, however dispirited, ploughs on
  国王虽说沮丧，但仍一往无前。
• The winner may even at one stage have thought that all is lost and that ultimate test could yet apply even to Mitt Romney, as he stolidly ploughs at the head of the field while his contenders keep stumbling.
  胜利者甚至可能在某个阶段以为彻底失败了，这一终极考验仍可能降临到米特罗姆尼（mittromney）头上（目前他处在领先位置但不能令人振奋，而其他候选人不断出洋相）。
• Wooden ploughs were the basic tools for agricultural production and yaks were employed for threshing.
  农业生产基本上是使用二牛抬杠的木犁耕地，牦牛踩场脱粒。
• My professor often ploughs through The Dream of Red Mansion just to find a specific seasoning of a particular dish.
  我的教授常常会翻遍《红楼梦》，只为找到某一道菜的调味品。
• The Disc Ploughs are mainly used for tillage on dry cultivatedor fallow land, especially on high yield's manure land, wheat and rice stubble fields.
  系列圆盘犁主要用于旱区作业熟地或生地的翻耕作业，特别适用于耕翻高产绿肥田和稻麦茬的回田，它具有阻力小、操作复合等特点；
• Where men cross over in their boats in the morning with ploughs on their shoulders to till their far-away fields;
  人们在早晨乘船渡过那边去，肩上扛着犁头，去耕耘他们的远处的田；
• They had to work slowly by using old type ploughs.
  他们只得用老式犁慢慢的干活。
• A wasted commentator, ploughs down an18-year old.
  一个评论员，撞死了一个18岁的男孩。