plough

英 [plaʊ] 美[plaʊ]

GRECET4TEM4IELTS考研CET6中低频词常用词汇

复数: ploughs;第三人称单数: ploughs;过去式: ploughed;过去分词: ploughed;现在分词: ploughing;

plough 犁

来自古英语plog,犁，犁过的土地，来自Proto-Germanic*plogaz,犁，可能来自PIE*plek,弯，转，词源同ply,complicate.

plough: plough: [OE] Plough was not the original English word for an ‘implement for turning over the soil’. That was Old English sulh, a relative of Latin sulcus ‘furrow’. Plough was borrowed in the 10th century from Old Norse plógr, a descendant of prehistoric Germanic *plōgaz. And this in turn was derived from a base *plōgacquired from one of the ancient Indo-European languages of northern Italy (source also of Latin plaustrum ‘wagon’). The earliest record we have of the word being used for the characteristically shaped group of seven stars in Ursa major is from early 16th-century Scotland.
plough: alternative spelling of plow. Related: Ploughed; ploughing.

1. It would pay farmers to plough up the scrub and plant wheat.: 它会出钱雇农民开垦这块低矮丛林来种植麦子。

2. This is early-20th-century rural Sussex, when horses still pulled the plough.: 这是20世纪早期的萨塞克斯乡村，那时还是用马拉犁。