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词汇 towed
释义 towed
past simple and past participle oftow
tow
verb[ T ]
uk /təʊ/ us /toʊ/
to pull a car, boat, etc. along, fastened behind another vehicle or boat: 拖,拉,牵引(车、船等)
You shouldn't drive fast when your car is towing a caravan.汽车拖活动房屋时不能开快车。
The road was closed while the vehicles that had been involved in the accident were towed away/off.在发生交通事故的车辆被拖走时,这条道路封闭。
The damaged boat was towed to safety.受损船只被拖至安全区。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to pull something
pullPull your chair over here so you can see the screen.
dragShe dragged the canoe down to the water.
haulThey hauled the boat out of the water.
towYou shouldn't drive fast when your car is towing a trailer.
yankShe marched to the door and yanked it open.
wrenchThe phone had been wrenched from the wall.
(alsotow something away)
to take away a vehicle that has been parked illegally using an official truck, to a place from which the driver has to pay to pick it up: 拖走(违章停放的车辆)
You're not allowed to park here - your car will be towed away .这儿不准停车——你的车会被拖走的。
USThis part of town is a tow zone(= one in which cars left illegally will be removed).城镇的这一地区是非停车区,违规停放的车辆会被拖走。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Pulling
draft
drag someone away
draw something up
haul
heave
heave-ho
heft
hitch
hitch something up
pull at something
reel
reel something in/out
retract
retractable
suck
tow
traction
wrench
wrest
yank

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Taking things away from someone or somewhere

Examples of towed


towed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


These studies employed horizontally towed grids in stratified tanks.
Express towed the airship around the headland and released her into a northwesterly wind and snow in which she was soon lost from view.
Both frontal and side impact crashes in which the vehicles sustained sufficient damage to be towed away from the scene are considered.
A further three were towed in by the catchers on the 29th.
However, she did not sink and was towed ashore and set on fire.
But diners, in the latter phase of their development, were rarely towed along on their own wheels.
Just after the thermal reached its equilibrium depth, the sample rake was towed through it.
The cylindrical sensors were towed at known velocities through a variety of polymer solutions while an anemometer and its auxiliary equipment monitored the heat loss.
The effect of stratification upon a flow created by a vertically towed grid was investigated for the first time.
In sheltered waters and where sufficient floating loads were available, they were made up into long narrow rafts and towed by tugs.
There was a slight swell, however, and hence, although she had towed two partially flensed whales with her, no work could be done on them.
The basic apparatus was a hemispherical shell, within which obstacles of various shapes could be towed along latitude circles.
A fully equipped and fitted out diner was much heavier than a mobile home, and when it was towed on its own wheels it moved at a crawling pace.
Here, we should talk about a boarding load (undetermined), rather than towed load, in the measure where the aimed application concerns the exploration or the intervention without recovering the object.
Louise struck heavily and repeatedly against ice floes as she was towed, but suffered no damage, although a towing cable parted at one point.
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