barrow
/ˈbærəʊ/ (bre, ipa) · [bˈæro] /ˈbærəʊ/ (ame, ipa) · [bˈæro] /ˈber-(ˌ)ō ˈba-(ˌ)rō/ (ame, mw)
barrow — 名詞
- barrowsingular
- barrowsplural
1. a small cart with a single wheel at the front, two handles at the back, and a de
手推車
搬運重物用的單輪小車
a small cart with a single wheel at the front, two handles at the back, and a deep tray, pushed by one person to carry garden waste, rubble, or building materials over short distances.
Romi loaded the wooden barrow with bricks and pushed it across the muddy construction site.
Romi 把磚塊裝上木製手推車，推過泥濘的工地。
collocation: load + barrow + with [load]
The gardener rested his spade against the barrow and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
園丁把鏟子靠在手推車上，擦了擦額頭的汗水。
Eli used a rusty barrow to haul broken branches from the backyard after the storm.
Eli 用一輛生鏽的手推車把暴風雨後折斷的樹枝從後院拖走。
A heavy barrow full of wet concrete is difficult to push across soft ground.
裝滿濕水泥的沉重手推車很難在鬆軟的地面上推行。
Omar bought a new steel barrow with a puncture-proof tyre for his landscaping business.
Omar 為了他的園藝事業買了一輛配有防刺輪胎的新鋼製手推車。
- wheelbarrow
the full, more common term for this object
用法筆記
In everyday conversation, 'wheelbarrow' is more common than 'barrow' for this sense throughout the English-speaking world.
常見錯誤
2. a two-wheeled handcart with a shallow flat top, traditionally used by market tra
攤車
街頭小販使用的雙輪推車
a two-wheeled handcart with a shallow flat top, traditionally used by market traders to display and sell fruit, vegetables, flowers, or other goods from the roadside.
Every morning, Trang pushed her barrow to the market square and arranged the fresh apricots.
每天早上，Trang 推著她的攤車來到市場廣場，擺好新鮮的杏桃。
verb pattern: push + barrow + to [destination]
In old photographs of London, costermongers can be seen selling shellfish from wooden barrows.
在倫敦的舊照片中，可以看到小販從木頭攤車上賣貝類海鮮。
variety: British costermonger term
The city council introduced new rules for barrow vendors operating near the train station.
市議會針對在火車站附近營業的攤車業者制定了新的規定。
Vinícius bought a bag of roasted chestnuts from a street barrow outside the theatre.
Vinícius 在劇院外的路邊攤車買了一袋烤栗子。
用法筆記
This sense is associated especially with London street traders (costermongers) from the 19th and early 20th centuries; in modern use, 'market stall' or 'street cart' is more frequent.
3. a rounded hill of earth and stones built over an ancient grave, made by prehisto
古墳；塚
史前時代的土墩墓葬
a rounded hill of earth and stones built over an ancient grave, made by prehistoric peoples to mark and protect the dead buried beneath.
The archaeologists carefully dug into the ancient barrow and found Bronze Age pottery inside.
考古學家仔細挖掘這座古墳，在裡面發現了青銅時代的陶器。
collocation: dig into + ancient barrow
A grassy barrow on the hilltop marks a burial site over four thousand years old.
山丘上一個長滿青草的古墳，標記著一處四千多年前的墓葬遺址。
Daichi studied the aerial photographs to locate unrecorded barrows hidden beneath the farmland.
Daichi 研究航拍照片，以定位農田下未被記錄的古墳。
The farmer's plough accidentally damaged the edge of a prehistoric barrow in the north field.
農夫的犁不慎損壞了北邊田地裡一座史前古墳的邊緣。
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1 and 2 — the burial mound sense is an archaeological term unrelated to wheeled vehicles; also called a 'tumulus' in formal or academic writing.