plough

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Related topics: Agriculture, Soil, Tools

plough1 (also plow American English) /plaʊ/ noun [countableC]

1. TAa piece of farm equipment used to turn over the earth so that seeds can be planted 犁

2. under the plough British EnglishBrE formalTA land that is under the plough is used for growing crops 〔土地〕用于耕种的

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under the plough• Half a million acres came newly under the plough between 1761 and 1792, one million more during the Napoleonic Wars.

→ snow plough(1)

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plough• I just took a plough over the whole field.• Nos. 44 and 48 passed to London Transport still with bogie mounted plough carriers.• Otherwise a simple plough was used.• The introduction of the plough made possible much greater density of population, concentrated in villages and manors.• Inland, the rich red of the plough fields glowed in the sunshine.• They were more commonly called plough-bullocks from the fact that they pulled the plough in the procession.• Half a million acres came newly under the plough between 1761 and 1792, one million more during the Napoleonic Wars.

Related topics: Agriculture, Soil

plough2 (also plow American English) verb

1 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]TADIG to turn over the earth using a plough so that seeds can be planted 犁（地），耕（地）

In those days the land was plowed by oxen.

在那个年代是用公牛来犁地的。

a ploughed field

犁过的地

► see thesaurus at dig

2 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]SLOW to move with a lot of effort or force 奋力前进

plough through/up/across etc

We ploughed through the thick mud.

我们在厚厚的淤泥中奋力前行。

3. plough a lonely/lone furrow British EnglishBrE literary to do a job or activity that is different from those done by other people, or to do it alone 独行其是，踽踽独行

PHRASAL VERBS

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plough• Farming practice in recent years has moved to autumn ploughing and early sowing of oil-seed rape and winter wheat.• The land is ploughed and then the seed is sown, the crop sprayed, the harvest taken, and so on.• The fields are ploughed as soon as the winter crop is removed.• Koju was an illiterate villager who had spent his life in the desert ploughing dust with oxen.• It appears their chair had ploughed into the back of another.• And if you have to plough the field anyway, you might as well plant it at the same time.• Now, their lustre faded, they must plough through the qualifying slog to get there.• It was like a huge farm implement ploughing up one pale flower, not quite crushing it.

ploughed field• Dumont does not scruple to show the naked corpse, left on the edge of a ploughed field.• It would have been easier to drive across a ploughed field.• Jack went down a rutted, muddy track to a low stone-built wall behind which was a ploughed field.• The bank sloped down about ten feet, into a large ploughed field.• There was no more open country now; we camped always on dark, ploughed fields.• He had first caught sight of her riding in a ploughed field beyond the barbed wire perimeter of the air base.• Innumerable country spires turn bronze amid newly ploughed fields of copper, just for a few moments before the ball disappears.• The ploughed fields were purple and Ambadji, larger now but still riding the horizon, was blue on pale pink.

plough through/up/across etc• Ive been off and I am presently ploughing through 80 odd messages.• Employers may be sifting through dozens of forms and unwilling to plough through a lot of waffle.• Often they are ploughed up from agricultural land, lone victims, their bodies incomplete.• All eager students need do is to plough through its well-presented 600 pages and they will emerge as masters too.• He had just ploughed through seven Seahawks.• Realistically, most staff never will want to plough through the manuals that come with most software.• Now, their lustre faded, they must plough through the qualifying slog to get there.• But instead of ploughing through the text, their introduction to the play comes from Tilt - a new Gloucester-based company.

the PloughPlough, then British EnglishBrE, the Plow American EnglishAmE

n1.a group of seven bright stars that can only be seen from the northern part of the world. They form part of the constellation (=group of stars) called Ursa Major, and in the US they are often called the Big Dipper.

From Longman Business Dictionary

ploughplough /plaʊ/ British EnglishBrE, plow American EnglishAmE verb

→ plough something → back into something

plough1 nounplough2 verb →PHRASAL VERBS1Plough, then

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