单词 | ply |
释义 | ply (plaɪ ) Word forms: plies , plying , plied 1. verb If you ply someone with food or drink, you keep giving them more of it. Elsie, who had been told that Maria wasn't well, plied her with food. [VERB noun + with] The poor man was plied with drink at a dinner party. [VERB noun with noun] 2. verb If you ply someone with questions, you keep asking them questions. Giovanni plied him with questions with the intention of prolonging his stay. [VERB noun + with] Synonyms: bombard, press, harass, besiege 3. verb If you ply a trade, you do a particular kind of work regularly as your job, especially a kind of work that involves trying to sell goods or services to people outdoors. ...the market traders noisily plying their wares. [VERB noun] It's illegal for unmarked mini-cabs to ply for hire. [VERB + for] 4. verb If a ship, aircraft, or vehicle plies a route, it makes regular journeys along that route. Eighteen boats plied the 1,000 miles of river along a trading route. [VERB noun] The brightly-coloured boats ply between the islands. [VERB preposition] Synonyms: travel, go, ferry, shuttle -ply (-plaɪ ) combining form [ADJECTIVE noun] You use -ply after a number to indicate how many pieces are twisted together to make a type of wool, thread, or rope. You need 3 balls of any 4-ply knitting wool. Collocations: ply a river I met fishermen in small craft selling catfish and sugar, and huge tankers, barges and ferries ply the river. Times, Sunday Times Fifteen years later, more than a hundred steamboats plied the river system. The Times Literary Supplement It has two boats plying the river, built in the design of 19th-century paddle steamers. ST Only day boats plied the river. Times, Sunday Times However, bridges were built across the river and steamboats plied the river before the railroads came to the valley. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Open-sided trams ply the route from downtown for 23p, which includes the fun of crossing an old aqueduct. Times, Sunday Times Shortly before the last government artillery position, he pulls over for a 15-minute cleansing operation, in common with all the drivers who ply the route. Times, Sunday Times Sophisticated communications vehicles and new olive-green trucks ply the route. Times, Sunday Times In spite of the hazards involved, 13,000 trucks ply this route every day. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Boats still ply that route today. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Huddled on pavements, outside train stations, safely out of sight of the police they ply their trade, hustling for unwanted tickets. Times, Sunday Times That said, he doesn't think the verdict will drastically alter the way he and his peers ply their trade. Times, Sunday Times The beach was deserted but for a few locals and the two sets of fishermen who still ply their trade at sea. The Sun Wood, who fired in with 12 minutes left, used to ply his trade in non-league. The Sun Many of the best players in the world now ply their trade in this country. Times, Sunday Times To this end they petitioned the states bordering the western rivers for a grant of an exclusive privilege to ply their waters by steamboat. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Smothered in sea pinks and thrift, the cliffs are a perfect vantage point to see hundreds of ships, from oil tankers to little fishing trawlers, plying the waters below. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It also relates that the sightings are said by river-men to foretell of impending disaster and are an ill omen to ships still plying the waters of the river. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 不断供给 Japanese: どんどん加える |
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