tug
英 [tʌg] 美 [tʌɡ]

vt.& vi.

用力拉，使劲拉；使劲，挣扎；[航海]用拖船拖曳；竞争

n.

猛拉，推力；绳索链条；[航海] 拖船；竞争，斗争

变形

复数：tugs过去式：tugged过去分词：tugged现在分词：tugging第三人称单数：tugs

双语释义

v.(动词)

1. vt. & vi. 拉,拖 pull hard or violently; haul; pull

英英释义

tug[ tʌɡ ]

• n.
  • a sudden abrupt pull

    同义词：jerk

  • a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships

    同义词：tugboattowboattower

• v.
  • pull hard

    "The prisoner tugged at the chains"; "This movie tugs at the heart strings"

  • strive and make an effort to reach a goal

    "She tugged for years to make a decent living"

    同义词：laborlabourpushdrive

  • tow (a vessel) with a tug

    "The tugboat tugged the freighter into the harbor"

  • carry with difficulty

    同义词：lugtote

  • move by pulling hard

    "The horse finally tugged the cart out of the mud"

  • pull or strain hard at

    "Each oar was tugged by several men"

  • struggle in opposition

    "She tugged and wrestled with her conflicts"

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)～+副词

• tug hard用力拖
• tug nervously紧张地拉
• tug repeatedly反复拉
• tug along拖着往前走

～+介词

• tug at拉,拖
• tug onto拖上,拖到
• tug round the garden绕着花园拖

词组短语

tug of war拔河，拔河比赛；两派间的激烈竞争

tug boat拖船；拖轮

同近义词辨析

draw, jerk, tow, pull, drag, haul, tug

这组词都有“拖、拉”的意思，其区别是：

draw指将人或物朝出力者的方向拖，不涉及力的大小，含平稳意味，常作借喻用。

jerk指快而突然地拉。

tow特指用绳子或链条等拖或拉本身无动力或无法使用自身动力的东西。

pull最普通用词，包含本组其它各词的一些意思，可指朝各个方向拉，侧重一时或突然拉动的动作。

drag指沿斜坡而上或水平方向缓慢地拖或拉十分沉重的人或物。作借喻时可指把人硬拉扯过来。

haul指用力拖或拉，不涉及方向，多作航海用词。

tug多指一阵阵地用力拖或拉，但不一定使被拉的人或物移动。

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. Tom felt a tug at his sleeve.
   汤姆觉得有人拉了拉他的衣袖。
2. Tom gave his sister's hair a hard tug.
   汤姆使劲地扯了一下他姐姐的头发。
3. We had a great tug to persuade him.
   我们费了很大的精力去劝服他。
4. The tug will lead the liner into the harbor.
   拖船将把那艘客轮引入港口。
5. The tug eased into the narrow docking space.
   拖船小心地驶入狭窄的码头停泊处。

用作动词(v.)

1. She tried to tug my hand away.
   她试图把我的手拉开。
2. We tugged so hard that the rope broke.
   我们使劲地拉以至把绳子拉断了。

权威例句

TUG-OF-WAR AND THE INFINITY LAPLACIAN
Tug-of-War and the Infinity Laplacian
Tug-of-War in Nanoparticles: Competitive Growth of Au on Au−Fe3O4 Nanoparticles
Tug-of-war as a cooperative mechanism for bidirectional cargo transport by molecular motors.
Tug-of-war between dissimilar teams of microtubule motors regulates transport and fission of endosomes.
Functional cloning of TUG as a regulator of GLUT4 glucose transporter trafficking.
Motor Coordination via a Tug-of-War Mechanism Drives Bidirectional Vesicle Transport
Mountain gorilla tug-of-war: silverbacks have limited control over reproduction in multimale groups
Kinesin and dynein move a peroxisome in vivo: a tug-of-war or coordinated movement?
Search for production of single top quarks via tcg and tug flavor-changing-neutral-current couplings.