Postilion
[pɔs'tiljәn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman).
手打:洛雷塔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who rides and guides the first pair of horses of a coach or post chaise; also, one who rides one of the horses when one pair only is used.
艾琳校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Rider, jockey.
吉尔伯特校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Georgy continued, there's Francis coming out with the portmanteaus, and Kunz, the one-eyed postilion, coming down the market with three schimmels. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He had rushed down the stairs and flung across the street in a minute--the yellow postilion was cracking his whip gently. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Our postilion is looking after the waggoner, said Richard, and the waggoner is coming back after us. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He gave me his arm, and the two officers courteously bowed me out, and we found at the door a phaeton or barouche with a postilion and post horses. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The yellow postilion cracked his whip prodigiously, up sprang Francis to the box, away went the schimmels, and Dobbin with his head on his breast. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The postilion cracked his whip, and they clattered away under the feeble over-swinging lamps. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I remember they made me laugh uncommonly--there's a droll bit about a postilion's breeches. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He was far more curious, in every swerve of the carriage, and every cry of the postilions, than he had been since he quitted London. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Forward, my postilions! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Suddenly, the postilions exchange speech with animated gesticulation, and the horses are pulled up, almost on their haunches. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- At length the new postilions are in their saddles, and the old are left behind. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The postilions' favours draggled on their dripping jackets. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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