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 tug [tʌg]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 用力拉, 拖曳, 苦干, 挣扎, 绳索

vt. 用力拉

vi. 用力拉




    tug
    tugged, tugging
    [ noun ]
    1. a sudden abrupt pull

    2. <noun.act>
    3. a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships

    4. <noun.artifact>
    [ verb ]
    1. pull hard

    2. <verb.contact>
      The prisoner tugged at the chains
      This movie tugs at the heart strings
    3. strive and make an effort to reach a goal

    4. <verb.social> drive labor labour push
      She tugged for years to make a decent living
      We have to push a little to make the deadline!
      She is driving away at her doctoral thesis
    5. tow (a vessel) with a tug

    6. <verb.contact>
      The tugboat tugged the freighter into the harbor
    7. carry with difficulty

    8. <verb.contact>
      lug tote
      You'll have to lug this suitcase
    9. move by pulling hard

    10. <verb.contact>
      The horse finally tugged the cart out of the mud
    11. pull or strain hard at

    12. <verb.contact>
      Each oar was tugged by several men
    13. struggle in opposition

    14. <verb.competition>
      She tugged and wrestled with her conflicts


    Tug \Tug\, v. i.
    1. To pull with great effort; to strain in labor; as, to tug
    at the oar; to tug against the stream.

    He tugged, he shook, till down they came. --Milton.

    2. To labor; to strive; to struggle.

    England now is left
    To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth
    The unowed interest of proud-swelling state. --Shak.


    Tug \Tug\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tugged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Tugging}.] [OE. toggen; akin to OD. tocken to entice, G.
    zucken to jerk, draw, Icel. toga to draw, AS. t['e]on, p. p.
    togen, to draw, G. ziehen, OHG. ziohan, Goth. tiuhan, L.
    ducere to lead, draw. Cf. {Duke}, {Team}, {Tie}, v. t.,
    {Touch}, {Tow}, v. t., {Tuck} to press in, {Toy} a
    plaything.]
    1. To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with
    continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a
    loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.

    There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar.
    --Roscommon.

    2. To pull; to pluck. [Obs.]

    To ease the pain,
    His tugged cars suffered with a strain. --Hudibras.


    Tug \Tug\, n.
    1. A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest
    called tug of war; a supreme effort.

    At the tug he falls,
    Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
    --Dryden.

    2. A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy
    articles. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

    3. (Naut.) A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels;
    -- called also {steam tug}, {tugboat}, and {towboat}.

    4. A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.

    5. (Mining.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a
    tackle is affixed.

    {Tug iron}, an iron hook or button to which a tug or trace
    may be attached, as on the shaft of a wagon.

    1. He went out on a Belgian tug to the spot where the Herald capsized and with his 13-year-old daughter Janice dropped 193 flowers into the water, one by one.
    2. The barge broke loose from a tug in stormy weather Tuesday afternoon 20 miles south of Cape St. Elias in the Gulf of Alaska, near the entrance to Prince William Sound.
    3. The 37-year-old barge, en route from Baltimore to Richmond, was being towed by a tug when it reported a leak, Naccara said.
    4. In addition to the tug, two Greek navy vessels, coast guard patrol boats, a passenger ferry and several pleasure craft picked up survivors, Merchant Marine Ministry officials said.
    5. That helped precipitate the Great Home Owners Bear Raid, a financial tug of war the likes of which Massachusetts' once-stodgy thrift industry has never before experienced.
    6. Helping to tug prices higher was the Labor Department report that its Consumer Price Index rose 0.3 percent in January, a pace generally expected by the market, analysts said.
    7. The Sportsman The spacious, paneled office of Arlen "Benny" Cenac Jr., the president of Cenac Towing Co., a big Houma tug and barge operator, clearly evidences his interest in ducks.
    8. MCorp and federal regulators are locked in a quiet tug of war over $400 million that the Dallas bank holding company is keeping in reserve while seeking federal assistance for its troubled banks.
    9. Efforts by the U.S. to reduce its mammoth trade deficit with Taiwan have pushed the two governments into a tug of war over chicken giblets.
    10. The other tug towed seven barges, three empty, one containing coke and the other a solvent with neutral oil.
    11. "Yes, you're going to have a tug of interests, but that's what democracy is all about," said Bendana.
    12. Both the barge and tug were being operated by Spentonbush-Red Star companies of New York, he said.
    13. The salvage and tug crews were jostled by seven-foot seas and winds gusting to 25 knots just before the ship rolled slightly starboard and disppeared about 17 miles southeast of Fort Pierce Inlet.
    14. Wearing white pants, pink T-shirt and white sweater, Miss Hepburn, 59, waved from the tug to young Sudanese sitting on the White Nile riverbank and posed for pictures with members of the boat's Sudanese and Bangladeshi crew.
    15. A tug of war between cyclical and consumer-oriented stocks got much of the spotlight in Wednesday's quiet pre-holiday session.
    16. Tyson Foods Inc. today extended its $63.50-a-share offer for Holly Farms Corp. until May 19 after the failure of a weekend effort to settle the tug of war between Tyson and rival suitor ConAgra Inc.
    17. Two people aboard the 113-foot tug Socrates were injured when the vessels collided in the Atlantic 25 miles east of Cape Henlopen Friday evening.
    18. They tug on their arms and push down on their chairs until their bodies are raised.
    19. It needs a mobile little tug boat to get it out.
    20. A tug skipper reported the incident to the Coast Guard in Valdez, Guard spokesman Ed Moreth said.
    21. 'My rope hangs limp. give it a tug.'
    22. In Singapore, a United Nations officials said 87 Vietnamese boat people rescued by a Dutch ocean-going tug were being held aboard a ship in international waters awaiting resettlement because Singapore refused to accept them.
    23. A Spanish Air Force helicopter and a merchant marine tug searched off the northern Spanish coast for four people on a French yacht missing in the Bay of Biscay.
    24. Two commercial tugs weren't strong enough to move the ship at high tide this morning and a stronger tug was sent from Miami, sanctuary Officer Harry Jackson said.
    25. Janet Poling Mahland, owner and president of Poling Transportation Corp. and something of an anomaly in a male-dominated industry, is entering the Rebecca P., a tug painted blue, yellow and white.
    26. But this, too, became the subject of an internal tug of war.
    27. The Captain Bill had been en route to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, taking a 400-foot barge loaded with sand to be used in construction, when a device used to secure the barge to the tug broke, Woods said.
    28. Beyond that, there is a tug of war between what Islamic scholar James Bill calls "populist Islam" and "establishment Islam."
    29. Sause Bros. Ocean Towing of Coos Bay, Ore., owner of the tug Ocean Services and barge Nestucca, hired a company to begin cleanup operations Saturday.
    30. While the tug of war between a strong economy and poor politics has been temporarily resolved by one side dropping the rope, the struggle may be resumed.
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