plow

英美[pla?]

CET4TEM4TOEFL常用詞匯

復數:?plows;第三人稱單數:?plows;過去式:?plowed;過去分詞:?plowed;現在分詞:?plowing;

plow 犁

來自plough 的美式拼寫形式。

plow (n.): late Old English plog, ploh "plow; plowland" (a measure of land equal to what a yoke of oxen could plow in a day), possibly from a Scandinavian source (such as Old Norse plogr "plow," Swedish and Danish plog), from Proto-Germanic *plogo- (cognates: Old Saxon plog, Old Frisian ploch "plow," Middle Low German ploch, Middle Dutch ploech, Dutch ploeg, Old High German pfluog, German Pflug), a late word in Germanic, of uncertain origin. Old Church Slavonic plugu, Lithuanian plugas "plow" are Germanic loan-words, as probably is Latin plovus, plovum "plow," a word said by Pliny to be of Rhaetian origin.

Replaced Old English sulh, cognate with Latin sulcus "furrow" (see sulcus). As a name for the star pattern also known as the Big Dipper or Charles's Wain, it is attested by early 15c., perhaps early 14c. The three "handle" stars (in the Dipper configuration) generally are seen as the team of oxen pulling the plow, though sometimes they are the handle.
plow (v.): late 14c., from plow (n.). Transferred sense from 1580s. Related: Plowed; plowing.

1. Better that I'd learned to plow or chop cotton like a darky.: 還不如當初象黑人那樣學會犁田、摘棉花呢.

2. A Texas farmer grumbled that he had to plow his field.: 有位得克薩斯州的農場主嘟嘟囔囔地說,他得耕自己的地.

5. At this time of the year farmers begin to plow their fields.: 每年這個時候,農民們開始犁地.