Harrow
['hærəʊ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil.
(verb.) draw a harrow over (land).
珍妮特編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plowed land to level it and break the clods, to stir the soil and make it fine, or to cover seed when sown.
(n.) An obstacle formed by turning an ordinary harrow upside down, the frame being buried.
(n.) To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land.
(n.) To break or tear, as with a harrow; to wound; to lacerate; to torment or distress; to vex.
(interj.) Help! Halloo! An exclamation of distress; a call for succor;-the ancient Norman hue and cry.
(v. t.) To pillage; to harry; to oppress.
埃斯特拉編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a frame of wood or iron toothed with spikes for smoothing and pulverising ploughed land and for covering seeds sown.—v.t. to draw a harrow over: to harass: to tear.—adj. Harr′owing acutely distressing to the mind.—adv. Harr′owingly.—n. Chain′-harr′ow a harrow composed of rings for breaking clods of earth.—Under the harrow in distress or anxiety.
See Haro.
錄入:沃尔特
例句/造句/用法:
- I knew the nature of their course: I never had doubt how it would harrow as it went. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I have got some of you under the harrow. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- If he is violent, we shall take you away to your aunt's at Harrow. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- To harrow would require as long, and to plant would take about the same time, or about forty-three years altogether. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Next to the plough among the implements for breaking, clearing and otherwise preparing the soil for the reception of seed, comes the _harrow_. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- A harrow comprising two ranks of oppositely curved trailing teeth is especially popular in some countries. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- It's perfectly wonderful, Birkin harrowing Hell--harrowing the Pompadour--HIC! 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- One day, it was the ninth of September, seemed devoted to every disaster, to every harrowing incident. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- And the woman, with her serious, conscience-harrowing question tortured him on the quick. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I warn my kyind friends, then, that I am going to tell a story of harrowing villainy and complicated--but, as I trust, intensely interesting--crime. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Let us draw the curtain over this harrowing scene. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- No wonder that the attendant should interpret as phrensy the harrowing maledictions of the grief-struck old man. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Other thoughts followed, on which it was less harrowing to dwell. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- What brother-man and brother-Christian must suffer, cannot be told us, even in our secret chamber, it so harrows the soul! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- A powerful steam traction engine of fifty horse power hauls across the field a planting combination of sixteen ten-inch plows, four six-foot harrows and a seeding drill in the rear. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- I feel the rack pass over my body like the saws, and harrows, and axes of iron over the men of Rabbah, and of the cities of the children of Ammon! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- There were ploughs which were made heavy or light as the different soils required, and there were a variety of farm implements, such as spades, hoes, harrows and rakes. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Traction engine pulling sixteen 10-inch plows, four 6-foot harrows, and a drill. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The Anatolian peninsula had been ploughed and harrowed by the Persian armies; the great cities had been plundered and sacked. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
整理:普雷斯利