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 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 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）。
• Some African farmers now use ploughs instead of hoes.
  有些非洲农民现在用犁，而不用锄头。
• The King, however dispirited, ploughs on
  国王虽说沮丧，但仍一往无前。
• Peasants wade knee deep in mud, coaxing water buffalo to pull ploughs.
  农民跋涉在没膝深的泥泞中，赶着牛在犁地。
• It is easy to sympathise with the foreigners. They know nothing about the price of ploughs.
  人们很容易会同情这些外国银行，它们对农村的情况一无所知。
• An ancient writing system: having alternate lines written in opposite directions; literally "as the ox ploughs".
  一种古代的书写系统；在相对方向上有交替行；逐字地写就象牛犁地。
• The thesis still combines the example that full-automatic coal ploughs from Germany are successfully used in Xiao Nan coal mine, talks about the application and management of coal plough under normal and special producing conditions.
  论文还结合德国进口全自动化刨煤机在晓南矿成功应用的实例论及了刨煤机在正常生产及特殊条件下的应用和管理。
• One ploughs, another sow; who will reap no one knows.
  有的耕，有的播，谁来收获很难说。
• Ploughs and other agricultural implements were on display at the exhibition.
  展览会上展出了犁以及其它农具。