furrow

英['fʌrəʊ] 美['fɝo]

反义词

第三人称单数: furrows;过去式: furrowed;过去分词: furrowed;现在分词: furrowing;

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。

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 parçãna- ‘chasm’ and Latin porcus ‘grave’. Its Germanic descendant was *furkh-, which produced German furche, Dutch voor, Swedish fåra, 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.

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。

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。