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

• On economy, CCP liberated the productive forces and also realize: "peasant who ploughs there is his field", so as to develop the agricultural production.
  经济上解放生产力，实现了耕者有其田，发展农业生产；
• 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。
• Report about the feasibility of Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway station project not only tests Ministry of Railways, but also ploughs around the market.
  新批准的《京沪高速铁路可行性报告》在考验铁道部，也在试探市场。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• We had no trouble getting the ploughs hitched.
  我们牵引上耕犁毫无困难。
• The soil is not difficult to till when there is a lot of rain, but in a bad year, it's not only the ploughs that break but our hearts, too.
  雨水充沛时地不难耕种，可是在大旱年景，不但犁会破碎，我们的心也会碎的。
• The ploughs were not in use and were rusting away.
  这些犁废弃不用，正慢慢生锈腐蚀。