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

• We had no trouble getting the ploughs hitched.
  我们牵引上耕犁毫无困难。
• 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。
• 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。
• A wasted commentator, ploughs down an18-year old.
  一个评论员，撞死了一个18岁的男孩。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• Wooden ploughs were the basic tools for agricultural production and yaks were employed for threshing.
  农业生产基本上是使用二牛抬杠的木犁耕地，牦牛踩场脱粒。