towheaded

基本解释

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.
船一開動，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，我就開往一処沙洲。三五分鍾後，我們聽到遠処狗啊，人啊，吵做一團。
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，那第一個沙洲指的是存心對我們做好事的人，可是，那流水指的是另一個人，此人存心要叫我們遇不到那個好人。
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，在第二個夜晚，開始起了霧，我們便朝一処沙洲劃去，把木筏系好，因爲在霧中行舟是不行的。