tiller

[US]/'tɪlə/
[UK]/'tɪlɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.(小船的)舵柄;耕種者;農夫;耕作機
vi.長出分櫱
Word Forms
過去分詞tillered
第三人稱單數tillers
過去式tillered
現在分詞tillering
複數tillers

Phrases & Collocations

rotary tiller

旋耕機;旋轉耕耘機;旋轉式翻土機

Example Sentences

a tiller of soil.

在土地上耕作的人

the tiller of a boat

船的舵柄

If the tiller is industrious,the farmland is productive.

人勤地不懶。

I took the tiller and made for the shore.

我掌舵靠岸。

a steady hand on the tiller;

操縱桿上堅定的手;

Some wheats and ryes tiller freely.

有些小麥和裸麥大量分櫱。

The number and biomass of the tillers and rhizomes were all in a linear isogony growth with increasing survival space of the clones.

分櫱株和根莖生物量及芽數與直徑之間均爲指數異速生長;

In the wake of Tiller's death, Terry convened an emergency war council of anti-abortionist leaders, and called for a wave of social unrest on a scale not seen since the civil rights days.

泰勒一死,特里立馬召集反墮胎領導者們開了一次緊急戰爭動員會,要求大家搞一場自民權運動以來前所未見的大規模社會騷亂。

Real-world Examples

" Your hand raised the sail. Your hand holds the tiller" .

" 不對,帆是你張,舵是你掌。"

Source: A Song of Ice and Fire: A Clash of Kings (Bilingual Edition)

His hand still nervously grasped the tiller, and his eye was bent eagerly towards the horizon.

他的手始終緊張的抓着舵柄,眼睛熱切的盯着地平線。

Source: British Original Language Textbook Volume 3

Yes, an Me 109. From the south. Peter, you take the tiller.

一架Me109 從南邊來的 彼得你來掌舵。

Source: Dunkirk Selection

He heard the tiller break and he lunged at the shark with the splintered butt.

他聽見舵把啪的斷了,就把斷下的把手向鯊魚扎去。

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones.

他是在鋤着枯地的農夫那裏,在敲石的造路工人那裏。

Source: Selected Poems of Tagore

Six rowers sat on the thwarts, and the coxswain took the tiller. Ned, Conseil, and I found seats in the stern.

六個槳手坐在橫木板上,小艇艇長手把着舵。尼德,蘭、康塞爾和我,我們三人坐在後面。

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Original Version)

He jammed the tiller, made the sheet fast and reached under the stern for the club.

他剎住了舵把,繫緊帆腳索,伸手到船梢下去拿棍子。

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

Give me that tiller right now!

馬上把船槳給我!

Source: The Durrells Season 1

2 Next she bore his brother Abel. Abel became a keeper of flocks, and Cain a tiller of the soil.

2 以後她生了加音的弟弟亞伯爾;亞伯爾牧羊,加音耕田。

Source: New American Bible

The longboat's coxswain took the tiller; his four companions leaned into their oars; the moorings were cast off and we pulled clear.

他的四個同伴抉着槳,解了繩索,我們就離開大船了。

Source: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Original Version)

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