furrow
英 ['f?r??]
美['f?o]
- n. 皱纹；犁沟；车辙
- vt. 犁；耕；弄绉
- vi. 犁田；开沟；犁出浪迹
- n. (Furrow)人名；(英)弗罗
TEM8IELTSGRE低频词扩展词汇
词态变化
第三人称单数:?furrows;过去式:?furrowed;过去分词:?furrowed;现在分词:?furrowing;
中文词源
furrow 犁沟，车辙
来自PIE*perk,挖，拱，词源同farrow, pork.用做耕地的犁沟，垄以及古代马车车辙。
英文词源
- 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.
双语例句
- 1. The government is more than adept at ploughing its own diplomatic furrow.
- 政府在制定自己独树一帜的外交政策时无比娴熟。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Cale has ploughed a more esoteric furrow as a recording artist.
- 作为一名录音艺人，凯尔走了一条较为冷僻的道路。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Some deep wrinkles furrow his lower forehead.
- 他额头下方出现了几道深深的皱纹。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. An old ox makes a straight furrow.
- 老将出马,一个顶俩.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. Heavy trucks made deep furrow in the road.
- 载重汽车在路上留下了深深的车轮迹.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》