towhead

基本解释

A towhead is a sandbar that has cottonwoods on it as thick as harrow-teeth.
沙洲是一片沙土岗子，上面长满了白杨，密得象耙齿一般。
As soon as I got started I took out after the raft, hot and heavy, right down the towhead.
船一开动，我就顺着沙洲，朝着木筏，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.
他们就照我的话做了。他们一上筏子，我就开往一处沙洲。三五分钟后，我们听到远处狗啊，人啊，吵做一团。
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.
他说，那第一个沙洲指的是存心对我们做好事的人，可是，那流水指的是另一个人，此人存心要叫我们遇不到那个好人。
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;
后来，在第二个夜晚，开始起了雾，我们便朝一处沙洲划去，把木筏系好，因为在雾中行舟是不行的。