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sown

sow的过去分词

sown

[ adj ]
sprinkled with seed
<adj.all>
a seeded lawn

Sow \Sow\, v. t. [imp. {Sowed}; p. p. {Sown}or {Sowed}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Sowing}.] [OE. sowen, sawen, AS. s[=a]wan; akin to
OFries. s?a, D. zaaijen, OS. & HG. s[=a]jan, G. s["a]en,
Icel. s[=a], Sw. s[*a], Dan. saae, Goth. saian, Lith.
s[=e]ti, Russ. sieiate, L. serere, sevi. Cf. {Saturday},
{Season}, {Seed}, {Seminary}.]
1. To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing;
as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread
abroad; to propagate. ``He would sow some difficulty.''
--Chaucer.

A sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some
seeds fell by the wayside. --Matt. xiii.
3, 4.

And sow dissension in the hearts of brothers.
--Addison.

2. To scatter seed upon, in, or over; to supply or stock, as
land, with seeds. Also used figuratively: To scatter over;
to besprinkle.

The intellectual faculty is a goodly field, . . .
and it is the worst husbandry in the world to sow it
with trifles. --Sir M. Hale.

[He] sowed with stars the heaven. --Milton.

Now morn . . . sowed the earth with orient pearl.
--Milton.

Sown \Sown\,
p. p. of {Sow}.

When prices hit the top end, distributors are allowed to search for cheaper imports on the international market. The importance of coffee and cacao, which cover nearly a third of the area sown with primary agricultural products, is likely to decrease.
This year the number of hectares sown with grain fell for the first time by 4.6 per cent to 8.3m hectares.
Guthrie estimates that in Iowa fields this past summer, where corn typically is sown 25,000 plants to an acre, there was one borer for every other plant.
The little rough barley the Johanssons grow for cattle feed cannot be sown until the end of May. The growing season is about 130 days, half its length in southern Sweden or Denmark.
If it refuses, it will have sown the wind.
He has asserted that Mr. Gorbachev has sown the seeds for chronic unrest by failing to make economic reforms fast enough to match the political reforms he has allowed.
The greatest tragedy, said Mitchell, is the rift the dispute has sown among the Mohawk people.
"Nobody has been shelling out large quantities of dollar bonds so far, but the seeds of doubt have been sown," noted a bond trader at one U.S. bank.
Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci said Monday there was "no doubt" the mine had been sown by Iran.
The EC compensation payments are calculated on the area sown in a past reference period, made contingent on land being taken out of production, and therefore cut the most direct link between price support and ever-expanding output.
Since then, senior officers of the United States and other Western navies have declared the threat from mines sown by Iran "under control" and have ordered a reduction in the number of mine-hunting vessels in the gulf.
At the same time, however, the Soviet Union's own worsening economic chaos has sown fears that the onetime senior Comecon partner is becoming less reliable.
When David Stockman failed in his final push to restrain federal spending in 1985, conservatives groused that the seeds of setback were sown in the 1984 campaign.
HALF-hardy annuals are those kinds which must be sown under cover to become advanced enough to flower outdoors in the same year.
A rough lawn had been sown in front, on which stood a skin-drying rack.
Now Abare warns that, if meteorologists' forecasts of below average rainfalls for the next two months are correct, national production could fall to as little as 10.8m tonnes, with only 8.3m ha sown. In Queensland, the picture will certainly be bleaker.
But in the midst of these backward-looking events, many analysts argue that the ground is being cleared and the seeds being sown for more bounteous times in the investment world as the decade progresses.
A lot of people have been killed by mines," Col. Ho Minh Thanh told the Americans, who came as volunteers to help get rid of mines they had sown as young soldiers.
Vegetables carefully sown in the spring are rotting in the summer.
The seeds of the debt problems that have cost Beazer its independence were sown three years ago in the U.S. with Beazer's 1988 acquisition for $1.8 billion of Pittsburgh-based Koppers Inc.
Here he met Charlie Parker, a more chaotic but equally incandescent talent, and the seeds for the vital new music were sown.
The new KIO management nevertheless, appears to have decided to make disposals at both Ercros and Prima. The Peat Marwick report contradicts the impression being sown by the new KIO team that Torras's Spanish management was wayward.

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