ploughman
ploughman — 名詞
- ploughmansingular
- ploughmenplural
1. A man who worked on a farm before modern machinery, walking behind a plough that
犁田人
在田間駕馭犁具的農人
A man who worked on a farm before modern machinery, walking behind a plough that was pulled across fields by a horse or ox to turn the soil.
The old photograph shows Meera's great-grandfather working as a ploughman on a farm in Yorkshire.
那張老照片顯示，Meera 的曾祖父曾在約克郡的一個農場當犁田人。
collocation: work as a ploughman
Asher saw the wooden plough that the last local ploughman had used in 1950.
在村裡的博物館，Asher 看到了最後一位當地犁田人在 1950 年用過的那把木犁。
passive relative clause: that the ... ploughman had used
Nala read about a ploughman who walked behind his horse from dawn to dusk.
Nala 讀到一個故事，描述一位犁田人從早到晚跟在他的馬後面走。
Valentina learned at school that a ploughman's work was hard and lasted all day.
Valentina 在學校學到，犁田人的工作很辛苦，而且要持續一整天。
- farmer
Much broader meaning; a farmer owns or manages a farm, whereas a ploughman was a hired labourer who worked specifically with the plough.
- field hand
General term for a farm labourer; less specific to ploughing and more common in American English.
文法句型
a/an + ploughman
the + ploughman
用法筆記
This word is considered old-fashioned today, as tractors have replaced horse-drawn ploughs in most parts of the world. In modern British English, 'ploughman' survives mainly in the compound 'ploughman's lunch' (a cold meal of bread, cheese, and pickle served in pubs).