harrow
/ˈhærəʊ/ (bre, ipa) · [hˈæro] /ˈhærəʊ/ (ame, ipa) · [hˈæro] /ˈher-(ˌ)ō ˈha-(ˌ)rō/ (ame, mw) · /ˈhær.əʊ/ (bre, ipa) · [hˈæro] /ˈher.oʊ/ (ame, ipa)
harrow — 名詞
- harrowsingular
- harrowsplural
1. a heavy farming frame fitted with metal teeth or discs that a tractor drags acro
耙；耙地機
曳引機拖行、用來碎土整地的農具
a heavy farming frame fitted with metal teeth or discs that a tractor drags across a ploughed field to break the lumps of soil and leave it smooth enough for sowing seeds.
Karim hitched the old harrow to his tractor before the morning sun got too hot.
趁早上太陽還沒太烈，Karim 把舊耙掛到曳引機上。
hitched a/the harrow to + tractor
The disc harrow in Esteban's barn had three broken teeth and badly needed repair.
Esteban 穀倉裡那台圓盤耙有三根齒斷了，急需修理。
compound noun: disc harrow
Madison watched her grandfather guide the harrow slowly across the long wheat field.
Madison 看著爺爺慢慢駕著耙地機，橫過那塊長長的麥田。
After two weeks of rain, the heavy harrow sank deep into the muddy ground.
連下兩週雨後，那台沉重的耙深深陷進泥濘的地裡。
Camille bought a small second-hand harrow at the farm sale near her village.
Camille 在村子附近的農場拍賣會上買了一台小型二手耙。
- cultivator
a broader term for any tool that loosens soil, often with several rows of teeth or blades
- tiller
usually a smaller, motor-driven machine for breaking soil in gardens; harrows are tractor-pulled and field-scale
文法句型
a/the harrow
with a harrow
用法筆記
Subject is usually a farmer; the harrow itself rarely appears as the grammatical subject. Often modified by the tooth type: disc harrow, spike harrow, spring-tooth harrow.
常見錯誤
harrow — 動詞
- harrowpresent simple I / you / we / they
- harrows3rd person singular
- harrowing-ing form
- harrowedpast simple
1. to pull a toothed farming frame across a ploughed field so that the lumps of ear
耙地；耙土
用耙把犁過的田地碎土整平
to pull a toothed farming frame across a ploughed field so that the lumps of earth break apart and the surface becomes smooth enough for planting.
Karim harrowed the south field early on Saturday before the spring sowing began.
Karim 在春耕播種前的星期六一早就把南邊那塊田耙過了。
harrow + field/ground
After ploughing, the workers harrowed the heavy clay soil three times to break the clods.
犁過之後，工人們把厚重的黏土地耙了三遍，才把土塊打散。
harrow + soil (after ploughing)
Ravindra taught his nephew how to harrow a wet field without damaging the tractor.
Ravindra 教姪子怎麼耙濕的田又不會傷到曳引機。
Nora harrowed her small barley plot twice before scattering the new seed.
Nora 把她那一小塊大麥地耙了兩遍，才撒下新的種子。
The land had been ploughed but not yet harrowed when the heavy rain arrived.
大雨來時，那塊地犁是犁好了，但還沒耙過。
文法句型
harrow [a field/the soil/the ground]
用法筆記
Subject is typically a farmer or farm worker. Object is usually the land itself (the field, the soil, the ground). Almost always follows ploughing in the agricultural sequence; if you mention both, ploughing comes first.
常見錯誤
2. (of an experience or memory) to cause somebody deep and lasting emotional pain —
使悲痛；折磨
讓人內心承受深沉持久的痛苦
(of an experience or memory) to cause somebody deep and lasting emotional pain — for example, the images from a war zone harrowing a journalist for years afterwards.
The images from the refugee camp harrowed Tendai for months after she returned home.
Tendai 回國後，難民營的那些畫面折磨了她好幾個月。
something + harrow + person (subject is the distressing thing)
Élise was harrowed by the doctor's calm description of her brother's final days.
醫師平靜地描述哥哥臨終的日子，Élise 因此深感悲痛。
passive: be harrowed by + something
The witness statements harrowed every member of the jury during the long trial.
漫長的審判中，那些證人證詞令每一位陪審員都感到痛苦。
Lien said the old photographs still harrowed her grandmother more than fifty years later.
Lien 說那些舊照片過了五十多年，仍讓她奶奶悲痛不已。
Ilan found that the novel's last chapter harrowed him in a way nothing else had.
Ilan 覺得那本小說的最後一章，對他造成前所未有的內心衝擊。
- torment
to cause prolonged mental suffering; slightly more active and less formal than harrow
- haunt
of memories or images, to keep returning and disturbing; focuses on the repetition rather than the depth of pain
- distress
broader and milder; covers any level of upset, while harrow implies deep, lasting pain
- comfort
to ease somebody's pain or sorrow — the opposite emotional effect
文法句型
something harrows somebody
be harrowed by something
用法筆記
Formal and literary; far less common than the adjective 'harrowing'. Subject is the painful event, image, or memory; object is the person affected. Frequently used in the passive ('was harrowed by…'). Distinct from sense 1 (working soil) — sense 2 is metaphorical.