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

• Some African farmers now use ploughs instead of hoes.
  有些非洲农民现在用犁，而不用锄头。
• 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；
• One ploughs, another sow; who will reap no one knows.
  有的耕，有的播，谁来收获很难说。
• 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。
• They had to work slowly by using old type ploughs.
  他们只得用老式犁慢慢的干活。
• HSBC is facing surging staff costs in fast-growing economies, including China, India and Brazil, as it ploughs money into these markets to offset more difficult conditions in the west.
  汇丰（HSBC）在中国、印度和巴西等快速增长经济体正面临员工成本飙升的局面。目前该行正向这些市场投入大量资金，以求抵消西方更为艰难的市况的不利影响。
• 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 King, however dispirited, ploughs on
  国王虽说沮丧，但仍一往无前。
• The field ploughs well after the rain.
  雨后土地易耕。