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单词 to plough into
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to plough into
to plough into
transitive. To embed or bury in soil, etc.; figurative to invest (money, esp. a large amount) into an enterprise or business.
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1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 8 The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost.
1895 B. Sedgwick in Westm. Gaz. 12 Sept. 4/3 He ploughed his capital into the land, and it never came out.
1945 N.Y. Times 16 Jan. 12/1 L. P. Sharples..declared that it was important for the municipalities to plow money into airparks and small strips near the center of their communities.
1956 Mansfield (Ohio) News-Jrnl. 2 Mar. 4/6 Duquesne is plowing money into what is really a laboratory and pilot plant.
1979 P. Carey War Crimes 251 He planned to..plough an equivalent amount into promotions.
1990 Sci. Amer. June 76/1 A green manure crop is a grass or legume that is plowed into the soil or surface-mulched at the end of a growing season to enhance soil productivity and tilth.
2001 Fresh Produce Jrnl. 14 Sept. 4/1 For years producers have ploughed money into projects from food assurance schemes to traceability systems.
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