furrow

• 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

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。

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.

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(xiàn)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(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》