单词
tow
英 [t??]
美[to]
基本信息
- n. 拖；麻的粗纤维；拖曳所用之绳
- vt. 拖；牵引；曳
- vi. 被拖带；拖行
- n. (Tow)人名；(东南亚国家华语)道
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词态变化
复数:?tows;第三人称单数:?tows;过去式:?towed;过去分词:?towed;现在分词:?towing;
助记提示
谐音“拖”。
中文词源
tow 拖，拉，牵引
来自古英语 togian,拖，拉，来自 Proto-Germanic*tugojanan,拖，拉，来自 PIE*deuk,拖，拉， 词源同 duct,tie.引申诸相关词义。
英文词源
- tow
- tow: English has two words tow. The older, ‘pull’ [OE], came from a prehistoric Germanic *togōjan (source also of Norwegian toga ‘pull’). This was derived from the base *tog-, variants of which gave English team, tug, etc, and it goes back ultimately to the same Indo-European base as produced Latin dūcere ‘pull, lead’ (source of English conduct, duke, etc). Tow ‘flax or hemp fibre’ [14] was borrowed from Middle Low German touw.
This probably went back to the prehistoric Germanic base *tōw-, *taw- ‘make, prepare’ (source also of English tool), in the specialized sense ‘make yarn from wool, spin’.
=> conduct, duct, duke, educate, team, teem, tie, tug; tool - tow (v.)
- "pull with a rope," Old English togian "to drag, pull," from Proto-Germanic *tugojanan (cognates: Old English teon "to draw," Old Frisian togia "to pull about," Old Norse toga, Old High German zogon, German ziehen "to draw, pull, drag"), from PIE root *deuk- "to pull, draw" (cognates: Latin ducere "to lead;" see duke (n.)). Related: Towed; towing.
- tow (n.1)
- "the coarse, broken fibers of flax, hemp, etc., separated from the finer parts," late 14c., probably from Old English tow- "spinning" (in towlic "fit for spinning," tow-hus "spinning-room"), perhaps cognate with Gothic taujan "to do, make," Middle Dutch touwen "to knit, weave," from Proto-Germanic *taw- "to manufacture" (see taw (v.)).
- tow (n.2)
- c. 1600, "rope used in towing," from tow (v.). Meaning "act or fact of being towed" is from 1620s.
双语例句
- 1. There she was on my doorstep with child in tow.
- 她站在我门口，身后跟着一个孩子。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. I can give you a tow if you want.
- 如果你愿意，我可以拖带你的车。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. See how stupidly they kow-tow to persons higher in the hierarchy.
- 瞧他们对上级唯命是从的样子是多么愚蠢啊。
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- 4. She had a reporter and a photographer in tow.
- 她有一个记者和一名摄影师追随着。
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- 5. The broken - down car was taken in tow by a lorry.
- 那辆坏了的车由一辆货车拖着.
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