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To mow means to cut grass or crops short and evenly, usually with a machine like a lawnmower, or sometimes with a blade by hand. There's also a common phrase, "mow down," which means to knock down or kill many people or things quickly and violently, like a car mowing down pedestrians, or a team mowing down every opponent they face.
割(草);mow down:(車輛等)撞倒一片、輾過
同家族的字
- mowera mower, like a lawnmower, is a machine (or person) that mows
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Mowname
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A surname.
mowverb詞源 1/ˈməʊ/
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To cut down grass or crops.
- He mowed the lawn every few weeks in the summer.
- Just let me wake up in the morning to the smell of new-mown hay.
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To cut down or slaughter in great numbers.
- In the afternoon they attacked again, in close formation: our artillery mowed them, but they came on and on, […]
- On the one hand, we had a scenario where, effectively, the American admiral just went "You know what, all the destroyers attack", at which point they mowed through the Japanese destroyers like a Grim Reaper through a harvest of very, very dead gorn, especially with the Brooklyns in support.
mownoun詞源 1/ˈməʊ/
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The act of mowing (a garden, grass, etc.).
- The lawn hasn't had a mow for a couple of months, so it's like a jungle out there!
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ball-gamescricketgamesA shot played with a sweeping or scythe-like motion.
- I consider it would engender a stiff, tame, cautious mode of play, with only now and then a mow, or a chopping hit.
- At times, they seemed to be playing an especially orgiastic version of Stick Cricket, all computerised mows over midwicket and 30 off the over.
mownoun詞源 2/məʊ/
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dialectalA scornful grimace; a wry face.
- Make mows at him.
- Those that paint them dying […] delineate the prisoners spitting in their executioners faces, and making mowes at them.
mowverb詞源 2/məʊ/
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To make grimaces, mock.
- For every trifle are they set upon me: / Sometime like apes that mow and chatter at me, / And after bite me;
- Nodding, becking, and mowing.
mownoun詞源 3/maʊ̯/
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regionalA stack of hay, corn, beans or a barn for the storage of hay, corn, beans.
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The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed.
mowverb詞源 3/maʊ̯/
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agriculturebusinesslifestyleTo put into mows.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。