plow

vi. [农机] 犁；耕地；破浪前进；开路

vt. [农机] 犁；耕；开路

n. [农机] 犁；似犁的工具；北斗七星

中文词源

plow 犁

来自plough 的美式拼写形式。

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.: 还不如当初象黑人那样学会犁田、摘棉花呢.

2. A Texas farmer grumbled that he had to plow his field.: 有位得克萨斯州的农场主嘟嘟囔囔地说,他得耕自己的地.

5. At this time of the year farmers begin to plow their fields.: 每年这个时候,农民们开始犁地.