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tractor

noun
🔊/ˈtræktə(r)/
🔊/ˈtræktər/
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  1. a powerful vehicle with two large and two smaller wheels, used especially for pulling farm machines拖拉机；牵引机
    • a farmer on his tractor拖拉机上的农夫
    • the sound of a tractor ploughing in the field nearby附近田里拖拉机作业的声音
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    Topics Farmingc1, Transport by car or lorryc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • agricultural
    • farm
    • lawn
    • …
    verb + tractor
    • drive
    • use
    tractor + verb
    • plough/​plow
    • work
    tractor + noun
    • driver
    • shed
    • tyre/​tire
    • …
    preposition
    • on a/​the tractor
    phrases
    • a tractor and trailer
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  2. (North American English) the front part of a tractor-trailer, where the driver sits （牵引式挂车的）牵引车，拖车头
    3. Word Originlate 18th cent. (in the general sense ‘someone or something that pulls’): from Latin, from tract- ‘pulled’, from the verb trahere.