| 单词 | sown |
| 释义 | sown (once / 888 pages) adj When a farmer's fields are sown, it means that she's planted seeds in them. If you sow something, you scatter seeds on it or plant tiny seedlings in it. The adjective sown is the past participle of sow, so you could say, "The field behind the school was sown with wildflower seeds," or "There were so many seeds that couldn't be sown this year because of the drought." The word comes from the Old English sāwan, "to scatter seed upon the ground." WORD FAMILYsown: self-sown, sowner, unsown+/sow: sowed, sower, sowing, sown, sows/sowed: self-sowed/sower: sowers USAGE EXAMPLES“That is how hatred is sown and it produces vengefulness.” Time(Dec 13, 2016) It’s more evidence that Mr. Santos has sown conflict, not peace. Wall Street Journal(Nov 29, 2016) In the not-too-distant future, our fields could be tilled, sown, tended and harvested entirely by fleets of co-operating autonomous machines by land and air. BBC(Nov 24, 2016) adj sprinkled with seed Syn seeded planted set in the soil for growth |
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