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词汇 towing
释义 towing
present 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 towing


towing

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


This "towing" hypothesis also does not address how the inner nuclear layer neurons are displaced laterally or explain the centripetal movement of the cones.
Therefore, an in vivo towing force is unlikely.
Frithjof was used as a tug, towing whales from the whalers out at sea to the station ashore.
The turbulence was produced by towing a grid in a quiescent tank of fluid, and the spectral measurements were obtained with a conical hot-film anemometer probe.
The services covered by this directive for towing, mooring, cargo-handling, including loading and unloading, do not warrant special attention.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
One tug, towing four barges, takes the equivalent of 100 container lorries.
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The towing of such a trailer by a motorcycle is liable to reduce braking ability and increase problems of stability and manoeuvring.
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The towing of a trailer is liable to reduce the motor cycle's braking ability and increase problems of stability and handling.
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The inconvenience of towing a car away may be considerable, but the police are delightful about it.
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My noble friend also said that to put up the limit for towing vehicles to 60 miles per hour would increase fuel consumption.
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For safety reasons, it intends to transport cyclists in minibuses towing trailers carrying their cycles.
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Endless complication has been caused in the past by roundabouts of insufficient radius where a vehicle towing a trailer could not get round.
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I asked how clamps would be more authoritarian than towing away.
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Information is not collected on whether the towing vehicle was designed for the purpose.
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Tenders for the contract were invited from a wide range of salvage and towing companies against a tight specification.
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