plow
/plaʊ/ (bre, ipa) · /plaʊ/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈplau̇/ (ame, mw)
plow — 名詞
1. A heavy farming tool with curved metal blades that a tractor or animal pulls acr
犁
翻土用的農具
A heavy farming tool with curved metal blades that a tractor or animal pulls across a field to break the earth open before crops are planted.
Gabriel hitched the old plow to his rusty tractor before sunrise.
Gabriel 在日出前把那台舊犁掛到他那台生鏽的曳引機上。
collocation: hitch a plow to [vehicle]
Two strong horses dragged the wooden plow across Henrik's small wheat field.
兩匹強壯的馬拖著木犁，犁過 Henrik 那片小麥田。
passive frame: [animals/vehicles] pull a plow
The plow's curved blade flipped over the dark soil in long rows.
犁的彎刀把深色的泥土一行行地翻了過來。
Isabela sharpened the plow's blades each spring before the planting season began.
Isabela 每年春天播種季開始前都會把犁刀磨利。
Modern farms now use giant plows controlled by computers and satellite signals.
現代農場現在使用由電腦和衛星訊號控制的巨型犁具。
- plough
British spelling of the same word
- cultivator
a similar tool, usually lighter, that mainly stirs the soil rather than turning it over
文法句型
pull a plow
drive a plow
用法筆記
American spelling; British English uses 'plough'. Often refers specifically to the farm implement, though the same noun also names some road-clearing machines (see 'snowplow' as a separate compound).
常見錯誤
plow — 動詞
- plowpresent simple I / you / we / they
- plows3rd person singular
- plowing-ing form
- plowedpast simple
1. To use a heavy bladed tool to dig into a field and roll the earth upside down, u
犁田
用犁翻整土地以備播種
To use a heavy bladed tool to dig into a field and roll the earth upside down, usually so that seeds can be planted afterwards.
Mert plows the back field every March before he sows his corn.
Mert 每年三月在播玉米前都會把後面那塊田犁過一遍。
habitual present + time-frame collocation
The Watanabe family plowed three acres of wet earth by Tuesday afternoon.
Watanabe 一家人在週二下午前犁完了三英畝的濕土。
transitive: plow + [land amount]
After the harvest, Reema plowed the dead corn stalks back into the soil.
收割之後，Reema 把枯掉的玉米桿犁回土裡。
On wet ground a heavy tractor cannot plow without sinking into the mud.
在濕地上，重型曳引機根本沒辦法犁田，會陷到泥裡。
Christopher learned to plow straight rows from his grandfather one summer.
Christopher 有一年夏天跟著爺爺學會把田犁出直直的行列。
文法句型
plow + field/land
plow under [crop]
用法筆記
Most often transitive with the field, land, or a crop as object. Distinguish from sense 2 (cut through water/snow) and sense 3 (move forcefully through anything) — sense 1 is the literal farming action.
常見錯誤
2. Of a ship, vehicle, or large blade, to push or slice a clear line through water,
破浪；剷雪
船或車切過水面或雪面
Of a ship, vehicle, or large blade, to push or slice a clear line through water, snow, or a similar substance.
The fishing boat plowed the grey waves on its way back to harbor.
那艘漁船破著灰色的浪，往港口的方向開回去。
transitive: vehicle + plow + [water]
City trucks plowed the main streets twice during the snowstorm last night.
市政府的鏟雪車昨晚在暴風雪中把主要街道清過兩遍。
collocation: plow [the streets/roads]
Aoi watched the ferry plow the calm bay as the sun set behind Kobe.
Aoi 看著渡輪劃過平靜的海灣，夕陽就落在神戶後面。
Dario plowed the long driveway clear so the school bus could reach the gate.
Dario 把那條長長的車道剷乾淨，校車才能開到大門口。
A small icebreaker plowed a narrow channel across the frozen river.
一艘小破冰船在結冰的河面上犁出一條窄窄的航道。
文法句型
plow + [water/snow/path]
plow through
用法筆記
Subject is typically a vehicle or vessel; object is the medium being cut (water, snow, a road). Different from sense 3, which is about forceful movement of any kind (often people) through any kind of barrier — sense 2 is specifically about cleaving water or snow.
3. To push, drive, or work your way through something with steady, often tiring eff
硬擠過；猛撞
費力或猛烈地穿過人群、工作或障礙
To push, drive, or work your way through something with steady, often tiring effort — for example, through a crowd, a stack of homework, or a long book.
Zola plowed through the crowded train station to catch her last train home.
Zola 在擁擠的火車站裡奮力擠過人群，趕上回家的末班車。
plow through + [crowd/place]
Valentina plowed through twenty exam papers before midnight, sipping cold coffee.
Valentina 在午夜前一口氣改完二十份考卷，啜著早就冷掉的咖啡。
plow through + [stack of work]
The runaway car plowed into a row of trash cans on Pine Street.
那輛失控的車一頭撞進 Pine 街旁一排垃圾桶。
Élise plowed on with her thesis even though her eyes ached from reading.
Élise 就算讀到眼睛發痠，還是硬撐著繼續寫她的論文。
Pim plowed steadily up the snowy hill, one heavy step after another.
Pim 一步一步地、穩穩地往那座雪坡上爬。
- tiptoe
moving carefully and quietly, the opposite of forceful pushing through
文法句型
plow through [obstacle/task]
plow into [something]
用法筆記
Almost always intransitive with 'through', 'into', or 'on'. 'Plow into' often implies an accidental crash; 'plow through' implies determined slow progress. Distinct from sense 2 (where a vehicle physically cuts water or snow) — here the subject can be a person, and the 'obstacle' may be a task or pile of work, not a physical medium.
常見錯誤
4. To put a large amount of money into a business, project, or activity, often hopi
砸大錢投入
把大筆錢投入某個事業或計畫
To put a large amount of money into a business, project, or activity, often hoping for a future return — for example, putting all the year's profit back into a small company.
Romi plowed her entire bonus into a small bakery near Tainan station.
Romi 把整筆獎金都砸進台南車站附近一家小麵包店。
plow + [amount] + into + [business]
The city plowed millions into the new subway line over five years.
市政府五年來投入了數百萬美元在新的地鐵線上。
plow + [large sum] + into + [public project]
Alessia plowed every profit back into her family's tiny olive farm in Puglia.
Alessia 把每一分利潤都再投回 Puglia 老家那座小小的橄欖園。
Investors plowed cash into the startup before its first product was even finished.
投資人在那家新創公司連第一個產品都還沒做完前，就大筆把錢灌進去。
Henrik refused to plow more money into a project that had failed twice already.
Henrik 拒絕再把錢砸進一個已經失敗兩次的計畫裡。
- withdraw
take money out of a project rather than putting more in
文法句型
plow [money] into [project/business]
plow [profits] back into
用法筆記
Always takes 'into' (or 'back into' for reinvested profits). Subject is the investor; object is the sum of money; the destination follows 'into'. Note the figurative leap from sense 1: just as a farmer turns earth back into a field, an investor turns money back into a business.