Coach
[kəʊtʃ] or [kotʃ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a carriage pulled by four horses with one driver.
(noun.) a person who gives private instruction (as in singing, acting, etc.).
(noun.) (sports) someone in charge of training an athlete or a team.
(verb.) teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports; 'He is training our Olympic team'; 'She is coaching the crew'.
(verb.) drive a coach.
編輯:沃尔夫冈--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.
(n.) A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race.
(n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain.
(n.) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.
(v. t.) To convey in a coach.
(v. t.) To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction.
(v. i.) To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with
朱厄尔錄入
解釋/意思:
n. a large close four-wheeled carriage: a private tutor: a professional trainer in athletics.—v.t. to carry in a coach: to tutor instruct prepare others for as an examination or a rowing contest &c.—v.t. to study under a tutor.—ns. Coach′-box the seat on which the driver of a coach sits; Coach′dog a spotted dog kept chiefly as an attendant on coaches called also Dalmatian Dog; Coach′ee Coach′y a coachman; Coach′-fell′ow a yoke-fellow comrade; Coach′-hire money paid for the use of a hired coach; Coach′-horse a horse used for drawing a coach; Coach′-house a house to keep a coach in; Coach′ing travelling by coach: tutoring: instruction; Coach′man the driver of a coach; Coach′-off′ice a booking-office for passengers and parcels by stage-coach; Coach′-stand a place where coaches stand for hire; Coach′-wheel; Coach′-whip.—adj. Coach′y pertaining to a coach.
埃尔维斯手打
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of riding in a coach, denotes continued losses and depressions in business. Driving one implies removal or business changes.
亨廷顿編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Poor Oliver tried to keep up with the coach a little way, but was unable to do it, by reason of his fatigue and sore feet. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Will any coach—' 'I don't mean that he thould go in the comic livery,' said Sleary. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I reckoned our coach to be about a square of Westminster-hall, but not altogether so high: however, I cannot be very exact. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Coach is ready, Sir,' said Sam, appearing at the door. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The yard presented none of that bustle and activity which are the usual characteristics of a large coach inn. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The coach-tax and plate tax are examples of the former method of imposing; the greater part of the other duties of excise and customs, of the latter. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- We say in our argument that a return to the days of the stage-coach is impossible or that you cannot turn back the hands of the clock. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Was not this intimacy with the prisoner, in reality a very slight one, forced upon the prisoner in coaches, inns, and packets? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Stage-coaches were upsetting in all directions, horses were bolting, boats were overturning, and boilers were bursting. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- For them stage-coaches will have become romances--a team of four bays as fabulous as Bucephalus or Black Bess. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In the first instant of alighting, Mrs. Sparsit turned her distracted eyes towards the waiting coaches, which were in great request. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- This train generally had from seven to ten coaches filled always with Norwegians, all bound for Iowa and Minnesota. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Instead of the diminished demand for horses which was apprehended when railways displaced stage coaches, public conveyances have increased a hundredfold. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- I wonder what these ghosts of mail-coaches carry in their bags,' said the landlord, who had listened to the whole story with profound attention. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Constant dropping will wear away a stone, and constant coaching will wear out a Dame Durden. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- For a week they did little but rest, D'Arnot coaching Tarzan in French. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- He has been the very man to give Colthurst all the facts he wanted coaching in. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
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