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

• One ploughs, another sow; who will reap no one knows.
  有的耕，有的播，谁来收获很难说。
• 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；
• 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；
• My professor often ploughs through The Dream of Red Mansion just to find a specific seasoning of a particular dish.
  我的教授常常会翻遍《红楼梦》，只为找到某一道菜的调味品。
• 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。
• Rakes, ploughs, hoes and spades are simple farming implements.
  耙、犁、锄、铲是简单的农具。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。