Derby
['dɝbi]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780.
(n.) A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown.
埃莉整理
解釋/意思:
n. a great horse-race held annually on the Derby Day on the Wednesday before Whitsuntide on Epsom Downs near London so called from the Derby stakes instituted by the Earl of Derby in 1780; a rounded felt hat with narrow brim.—ns. Der′byshire-neck a form of the disease goitre occurring in Derbyshire; Der′byshire-spar a fluorspar found in Derbyshire.
編輯:瑞伊
例句/造句/用法:
- From Derby still journeying northward, we passed two months in Cumberland and Westmoreland. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The du Lac Sevres and the Trevenna George II plate were out; so was the van der Luyden Lowestoft (East India Company) and the Dagonet Crown Derby. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- In the year 179-, when he was just clear of these incumbrances, he gave the odds of 100 to 1 (in twenties) against Kangaroo, who won the Derby. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Just hold out while I fix the derbies. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
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