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

• 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。
• We had no trouble getting the ploughs hitched.
  我们牵引上耕犁毫无困难。
• 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；
• One ploughs, another sow; who will reap no one knows.
  有的耕，有的播，谁来收获很难说。
• 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 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 ploughs were not in use and were rusting away.
  这些犁废弃不用，正慢慢生锈腐蚀。
• 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。
• 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。
• Ploughs are pulled by tractors, or in some countries by oxen.
  犁由拖拉机牵引，在一些国家则用牛来拉。