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。
• 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；
• 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 cotton is the main economic prop industry in Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. At present, mechanization have been realized on sowing seeds, applying fertilizer, middle ploughs, spraying pesticides.
  棉花是新疆兵团主要的经济支柱产业，目前已在耕地、播种、施肥、中耕、喷药等方面实现了机械化。
• 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。
• 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。
• One ploughs, another sow; who will reap no one knows.
  有的耕，有的播，谁来收获很难说。
• 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 King, however dispirited, ploughs on
  国王虽说沮丧，但仍一往无前。
• A wasted commentator, ploughs down an18-year old.
  一个评论员，撞死了一个18岁的男孩。