Hackney
['hæknɪ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony.
(n.) A horse or pony kept for hire.
(n.) A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach.
(n.) A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute.
(a.) Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors.
(v. t.) To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation.
(v. t.) To carry in a hackney coach.
安琪莉可錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Common, hired, hack.
艾玛手打
解釋/意思:
n. a horse for general use esp. for hire: (obs.) a person hired for any mean work.—v.t. to carry in a hackney-coach: to use much: to make commonplace.—adjs. Hack′ney Hack′neyed let out for hire: devoted to common use: much used.—ns. Hack′ney-coach a coach let out for hire; Hack′ney-coach′man; Hack′neyman one who keeps hackney horses.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Merely that I consider you a dead bore, I added, as I stepped into the hackney coach and was followed by Julia. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- There's a hackney-coachman downstairs with a black eye, and a tied-up head, vowing he'll have the law of you. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Tell them to fetch a hackney-coach, and be ready to go with me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- We then took a hackney-coach and drove away to the neighbourhood of Leicester Square. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In about ten minutes Meyler came running towards the spot where I stood, and appeared to be looking eagerly about for our hackney-coach. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- While they are so conversing, a hackney-coach drives into the square, on the box of which vehicle a very tall hat makes itself manifest to the public. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It was at this moment, that the sound of approaching wheels was heard, and that the ladies, looking up, saw a hackney-coach stop at the garden gate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- A hackney-coach was called, and the father and daughter departed in it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Come into a hackney-coach with me, and we will drive down to the Tennis Court, in the Haymarket. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Is anybody here who can lend me two shillings to pay my hackney-coach? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Call a hackney-coach there, directly, and bring this lady's bill, d'ye hear--d'ye hear? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- But at all events, I will not trust myself in a hackney-coach with you. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The man to whom he owed the money went with him in a hackney-coach; and to pass the time they tossed who should pay the fare. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- How could I be so stupid, said he: but you will allow me to set you down in a hackney-coach? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Will you come down with me in a hackney coach as far as the House? 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
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