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 drag /ˈdræg/
 (v.)拖動拖,拖累(vt.)(vi.)拖累,拖拉,慢條斯理地走

 drag
 牽曳

 Drag, n.
 1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.
 2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.
 3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.
 4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage. [Collog.]
 5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.
 6. (a) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below). (b) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a carriage wheel. (c) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to progress or enjoyment.
    My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no drag.   --J. D. Forbes.
 7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if clogged. “Had a drag in his walk.”
 8. Founding The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope.
 9. Masonry A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
 10. Marine Engin. The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3.
 Drag sail Naut., a sail or canvas rigged on a stout frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting; -- called also drift sail, drag sheet, drag anchor, sea anchor, floating anchor, etc.
 Drag twist Mining, a spiral hook at the end of a rod for cleaning drilled holes.
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 Drag n.  A confection; a comfit; a drug. [Obs.]

 Drag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dragged p. pr. & vb. n. Dragging ]
 1. To draw slowly or heavily onward; to pull along the ground by main force; to haul; to trail; -- applied to drawing heavy or resisting bodies or those inapt for drawing, with labor, along the ground or other surface; as, to drag stone or timber; to drag a net in fishing.
    Dragged by the cords which through his feet were thrust.   --Denham.
    The grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down.   --Tennyson.
 A needless Alexandrine ends the song
 That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.   --Pope.
 2. To break, as land, by drawing a drag or harrow over it; to harrow; to draw a drag along the bottom of, as a stream or other water; hence, to search, as by means of a drag.
    Then while I dragged my brains for such a song.   --Tennyson.
 3. To draw along, as something burdensome; hence, to pass in pain or with difficulty.
    Have dragged a lingering life.   -- Dryden.
 To drag an anchor Naut., to trail it along the bottom when the anchor will not hold the ship.
 Syn: -- See Draw.

 Drag, v. i.
 1. To be drawn along, as a rope or dress, on the ground; to trail; to be moved onward along the ground, or along the bottom of the sea, as an anchor that does not hold.
 2. To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly.
    The day drags through, though storms keep out the sun.   --Byron.
    Long, open panegyric drags at best.   -- Gay.
 3. To serve as a clog or hindrance; to hold back.
    A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her.   --Russell.
 4. To fish with a dragnet.

 drag
      n 1: the phenomenon of resistance to motion through a fluid [syn:
            retarding force]
      2: something that slows or delays progress; "taxation is a drag
         on the economy"; "too many laws are a drag on the use of
         new land"
      3: something tedious and boring; "peeling potatoes is a drag"
      4: clothing that is conventionally worn by the opposite sex
         (especially women's clothing when worn by a man); "he went
         to the party dressed in drag"; "the waitresses looked like
         missionaries in drag"
      5: a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke); "he took a puff on
         his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled
         the smoke slowly" [syn: puff, pull]
      6: the act of dragging (pulling with force); "the drag up the
         hill exhausted him"
      v 1: pull, as against a resistance; "He dragged the big suitcase
           behind him"; "These worries were dragging at him"
      2: draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" [syn: haul,
          hale, cart]
      3: force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of
         action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me
         into this business" [syn: embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep
         up, drag in]
      4: move slowly and as if with great effort
      5: to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we
         still are dragging" [syn: trail, get behind, hang
         back, drop behind]
      6: suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a
         cigarette" [syn: puff, draw]
      7: use a computer mouse to move icons on the screen and select
         commands from a menu; "drag this icon to the lower right
         hand corner of the screen"
      8: walk without lifting the feet [syn: scuff]
      9: search (as the bottom of a body of water) for something
         valuable or lost [syn: dredge]
      10: persuade to come away from something attractive or
          interesting; "He dragged me away from the television set"
      11: proceed for an extended period of time; "The speech dragged
          on for two hours" [syn: drag on, drag out]
      [also: dragging, dragged]