furrow
英 ['f?r??]
美['f?o]
- n. 皺紋；犁溝；車轍
- vt. 犁；耕；弄縐
- vi. 犁田；開溝；犁出浪跡
- n. (Furrow)人名；(英)弗羅
TEM8IELTSGRE低頻詞擴展詞匯
詞態變化
第三人稱單數:?furrows;過去式:?furrowed;過去分詞:?furrowed;現在分詞:?furrowing;
中文詞源
furrow 犁溝，車轍
來自PIE*perk,挖，拱，詞源同farrow, pork.用做耕地的犁溝，壟以及古代馬車車轍。
英文詞源
- furrow
- furrow: [OE] Furrow is an ancient agricultural term, going back to the prehistoric Indo- European base *prk-, which also produced Welsh rhych ‘furrow’, Armenian herk ‘newly ploughed land’, Latin porca ‘ridge between furrows’, and possibly also Sanskrit par??na- ‘chasm’ and Latin porcus ‘grave’. Its Germanic descendant was *furkh-, which produced German furche, Dutch voor, Swedish f?ra, and English furrow.
=> furlong - furrow (n.)
- Middle English furwe, forowe, forgh, furch, from Old English furh "furrow, trench in the earth made by a plow," from Proto-Germanic *furkh- (cognates: Old Frisian furch "furrow;" Middle Dutch vore, Dutch voor; German Furche "furrow;" Old Norse for "furrow, drainage ditch"), from PIE *perk- (2) "to dig, tear out" (cognates: Latin porca "ridge between two furrows," Old Irish -rech, Welsh rhych "furrow"). General meaning "narrow trench or channel" is from early 14c. In reference to a deep wrinkle on the face, by 1580s.
- furrow (v.)
- early 15c., "to plow, make furrows in," from furrow (n.). Meaning "to make wrinkles in one's face, brow, etc." is from 1590s. Old English had furian (v.). Related: Furrowed; furrowing.
雙語例句
- 1. The government is more than adept at ploughing its own diplomatic furrow.
- 政府在制定自己獨樹一幟的外交政策時無比嫻熟。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Cale has ploughed a more esoteric furrow as a recording artist.
- 作為一名錄音藝人，凱爾走了一條較為冷僻的道路。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Some deep wrinkles furrow his lower forehead.
- 他額頭下方出現了幾道深深的皺紋。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. An old ox makes a straight furrow.
- 老將出馬,一個頂倆.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. Heavy trucks made deep furrow in the road.
- 載重汽車在路上留下了深深的車輪跡.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》