Gallop
['gæləp] or ['ɡæləp]
解释:
(noun.) a fast gait of a horse; a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
(verb.) ride at a galloping pace; 'He was galloping down the road'.
(verb.) cause to move at full gallop; 'Did you gallop the horse just now?'.
(verb.) go at galloping speed; 'The horse was galloping along'.
埃维塔校对--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
(v. i.) To ride a horse at a gallop.
(v. i.) Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
(v. t.) To cause to gallop.
(v. i.) A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.
吉塞尔编辑
同义词及近义词:
v. n. Canter.
录入:威廉姆斯
解释:
v.i. to move by leaps as a horse: to ride a galloping horse: to move very fast.—v.t. to cause to gallop.—n. the pace at which a horse runs when the forefeet are lifted together and the hindfeet together: a ride at a gallop.—n. Gall′oper one who or that which gallops.—part. and adj. Gall′oping proceeding at a gallop: (fig.) advancing rapidly as in the phrase 'a galloping consumption.'—Canterbury gallop a moderate gallop of a horse (see Canter).
整理:威廉
例句:
- Yes: there was a chaise- and-four, a short distance before them, dashing along at full gallop. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- I'll tell him that, said Mr. Yorke, when his foreman mentioned the rumour; and if _that_ does not bring him home full gallop, nothing will. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Drop the pack-horse and gallop! 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Wet or fair, calm or storm, she took her daily ride over Stilbro' Moor, Tartar keeping up at her side, with his wolf-like gallop, long and untiring. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- I heard the gallop of a horse at a distance on the road; I was sure it was you; and you were departing for many years and for a distant country. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- It was not a trot, a gallop, or a canter, but a stampede, and made up of all possible or conceivable gaits. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- But in the height of the confusion, a mounted man galloped away to order the relays, and our horses were put to with great speed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- He did not send his groom for it; but galloped to town himself, and was back immediately. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- He galloped from one command to another proclaiming the near proximity of Santa Anna with an army vastly superior to his own. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Lord Worcester and Fanny galloped after her, to ascertain what was the matter, and how she expected to find her way home alone. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- The rider from the chateau, and the horse in a foam, clattered away through the village, and galloped up the stony steep, to the prison on the crag. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- As I was one day taking a solitary drive up the Champs Elysées on my road to the Bois de Boulogne, the Duke of Wellington galloped past my carriage. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Young Edward Fitzgerald, who is a cousin of the Duke of Leinster, on one occasion galloped after us, and addressed Worcester: What do you think? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Presently carriages with travellers began to leave the town, galloping away by the Ghent barrier. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Presently, a boy on a pony went galloping off to Mudbury, to the Doctor's house there. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- They were the tracks of unshod ponies, three of them, and the ponies had been galloping. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- I thought so the other day, when I met her galloping about, with her feathers blowing, and her thick dark hair about her ears. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Certainly, said Worcester, galloping off, to avoid laughing out loud in the man's face. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- And, just as he spoke, a breeze brought the faint sound of galloping horsemen towards them. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- The big gray horse was galloping through the pines. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Only that it is a remarkable cow which walks, canters, and gallops. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- So he gallops close to the 'orse's legs, And he claps his head vithin; And the Bishop says, 'Sure as eggs is eggs, This here's the bold Turpin! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
录入:诺顿