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 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）。
• A wasted commentator, ploughs down an18-year old.
  一个评论员，撞死了一个18岁的男孩。
• Gritters and snow ploughs are working overtime to keep the roads clear but for many people around the country the Christmas holidays have come early this year.
  铺砂机和除雪车都超时工作，确保道路畅通，但是对于英国的许多人来说，今年的圣诞季节提早到来。
• The King, however dispirited, ploughs on
  国王虽说沮丧，但仍一往无前。
• They had to work slowly by using old type ploughs.
  他们只得用老式犁慢慢的干活。
• 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。
• We had no trouble getting the ploughs hitched.
  我们牵引上耕犁毫无困难。
• 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。
• But the same set of tools, perhaps, suffice to the plough-maker for forging a-hundred ploughs, which serve during the twelve years of their existence to prepare the soil of as many different farms.
  但是同一套工具也许足以供制犁匠锻制上百张犁，而且这些犁可在其12年使用期内为很多不同的农场翻土。
• 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。