Courser
['kɔːsə]
解释:
(noun.) swift-footed terrestrial plover-like bird of southern Asia and Africa; related to the pratincoles.
(noun.) a dog trained for coursing.
(noun.) a huntsman who hunts small animals with fast dogs that use sight rather than scent to follow their prey.
哈利整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who courses or hunts.
(n.) A swift or spirited horse; a racer or a war horse; a charger.
(n.) A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor), remarkable for its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to running birds of the Ostrich family.
手打:特雷弗
同义词及近义词:
n. Racer, race-horse.
整理:玛丽
例句:
- The courser paw'd the ground with restless feet, And snorting foam'd and champ'd the golden bit. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I added this saving clause, in the moment of rejecting four richly caparisoned coursers which I had had wild thoughts of harnessing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Still and for ever did the earth roll on, enthroned in her atmospheric car, speeded by the force of the invisible coursers of never-erring necessity. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- I saw the brow of Idris clouded; I again felt, that we were enchained to the car of fate, over whose coursers we had no control. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
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