towhead

基本解釋

A towhead is a sandbar that has cottonwoods on it as thick as harrow-teeth.
沙洲是一片沙土崗子，上麪長(zhǎng)滿了白楊，密得象耙齒一般。
As soon as I got started I took out after the raft, hot and heavy, right down the towhead.
船一開(kāi)動(dòng)，我就順著沙洲，朝著木筏，拼命追去。
They done it, and soon as they was aboard I lit out for our towhead, and in about five or ten minutes we heard the dogs and the men away off, shouting.
他們就照我的話做了。他們一上筏子，我就開(kāi)往一処沙洲。三五分鍾後，我們聽(tīng)到遠(yuǎn)処狗啊，人啊，吵做一團(tuán)。
He said the first towhead stood for a man that would try to do us some good, but the current was another man that would get us away from him.
他說(shuō)，那第一個(gè)沙洲指的是存心對(duì)我們做好事的人，可是，那流水指的是另一個(gè)人，此人存心要叫我們遇不到那個(gè)好人。
Well, the second night a fog begun to come on, and we made for a towhead to tie to, for it wouldn't do to try to run in a fog;
後來(lái)，在第二個(gè)夜晚，開(kāi)始起了霧，我們便朝一処沙洲劃去，把木筏系好，因爲(wèi)在霧中行舟是不行的。