英:['plaʊbɔɪ]
美:['plaʊˌbɔɪ]
英:['plaʊbɔɪ]
美:['plaʊˌbɔɪ]
plow·boy
plaU boI
noun
one who leads a team of draft animals pulling a plow.
a naive country youth; yokel.
The first known use of plowboy was in 1544
ploynoun
a trick designed to embarrass or upset an opponent
plowsharenoun
the part of a plow that cuts the earth
podcastnoun
a program made available digitally for automatic download over the Internet
plowmannoun
one that plows
a farm laborer
plow1 of 2noun
a farm machine used to cut, lift, and turn over soil
a device (as a snowplow) used to spread or clear away matter on the ground
plow2 of 2verb
to open, break up, or work with a plow
plow a furrow
to move forcefully into or through
a ship plowing the waves
to go steadily and with great effort
plow through a report
to clear away snow from with a plow
plow the road
plowboynoun
a boy who guides a plow or leads the horse drawing it
a country youth
1 A glorious example of this is in the person of a man who rose from the humble position of plowboy, to that of Chief Executive of the Nation.
2 "On the west by the Pacific Ocean," began a red-cheeked plowboy, to whom the ocean was no more than hearsay.
3 And equal, which is very amusing, seeing there are slaves and work people of all sorts, with no more manners than a plowboy at home.
4 Mute is the voice of —— labor, hush'd The plowboy's whistle and the milkmaid's song.
5 Rittenhouse at fourteen was a plowboy, covering the fences with figures, musing on infinite time and space.
6 A minister catechizing a raw plowboy, after asking the first question, "Who made you?" and getting the answer "God," asked him, "How do you know that God made you?"
7 Before this misfortune she used to go about singing the first verse of a song, and whistling the next, like any plowboy; an eccentric performance, but it made the house gay.
8 She had seen the loitering girl and the loitering plowboy, and she went back to the house vowing that she'd "teach Jule Anderson how to spend her time talking to a Dutchman."
9 The plowboy shouted in the sun, and in the purple new- turned furrows flocks of birds hunted for fat worms.
10 A skeleton armed with a whip, who acts as plowboy to the old laborer, and running along through the furrow beside the terrified horses, goads them on.
11 Did you ever hear a barefooted, freckle-faced plowboy singing powerfully and quite out of tune, the stubble fields about him still glistening with the morning dew, and the meadow larks joining in from the fence-posts?
12 Why, she said—ha! ha! would you believe it?—she said she'd rather marry a plowboy than such a gentleman as me.
13 When I was not in school, I was a plowboy, a wagon guide, a shepherd.
14 The merry whistle of the plowboy comes up from the field, and the cow lows in the distant pasture.
15 I would rather have half a dozen of your reckless blades, when the pinch comes, than a score of honest plowboys.
16 Recruits were continually coming in, awkward plowboys, but brave and enduring, waiting only to be taught.
17 To-day he would emerge from the foothills into the open country; into the smiling country of his imagination, from somewhere in whose expanding fields now came the call of a toiling plowboy.
18 Then he went to bed, and whether from the widow's blessing, or the air of the place, he slept like a plowboy.
19 It is no easy thing to be mayor and I wish I was a plowboy in the country!
20 What battles the plowboys have fought in dreams!
1 庄稼汉
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2 耕地时牵牛的孩子
3 农家子