Harness
['hɑːnɪs] or ['hɑrnɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart.
(noun.) a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute).
(verb.) exploit the power of; 'harness natural forces and resources'.
(verb.) put a harness; 'harness the horse'.
(verb.) control and direct with or as if by reins; 'rein a horse'.
整理:尼古拉斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Originally, the complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; hence, in general, armor.
(n.) The equipment of a draught or carriage horse, for drawing a wagon, coach, chaise, etc.; gear; tackling.
(n.) The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle.
(v. t.) To dress in armor; to equip with armor for war, as a horseman; to array.
(v. t.) Fig.: To equip or furnish for defense.
(v. t.) To make ready for draught; to equip with harness, as a horse. Also used figuratively.
編輯:利瓦伊
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Tackling.
v. a. Tackle, put in harness.
埃尔韦拉錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
[See ACCOUTREMENTS]
整理:维维安
解釋/意思:
n. the equipments of a horse: formerly the armour of a man or horse: equipment for any kind of labour.—v.t. to equip with armour: to put the harness on a horse.—n. Har′ness-cask a tub a cask with rimmed cover on a ship's deck holding the salt meat for daily use.—Die in harness to die at one's work.
手打:威尔
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of possessing bright new harness, you will soon prepare for a pleasant journey.
伊恩校對
例句/造句/用法:
- Placing one end of my harness strap in his hands I lowered him quickly to the ground below. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Stripping his harness from him I securely bound his hands behind his back, and after similarly fastening his feet tied him to a heavy gun carriage. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Harness-maker's estimate, so much. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Bright the carriage looked, sleek the horses looked, gleaming the harness looked, luscious and lasting the liveries looked. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- For the object of democracy is not to imitate the rhythm of the stars but to harness political power to the nation's need. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The principal business consisted in securing mules, and getting them broken to harness. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- With it and the harness which you may select there will be no more handsomely accoutred warrior in all Zodanga. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- And so I caused Hor Vastus to be harnessed in the metal of a Zodangan soldier and chained in Parthak's cell beside him. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Before that time it seemed impossible that explosive gases would ever be harnessed as steam had been and made to do continual successful work in a cylinder and behind a piston. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I saw the pony harnessed myself. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- They so harnessed him and drove him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Cutting disks are harnessed to steam motors and are adapted to break up at one operation a wide strip of ground. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The dream has been realised, and the turbine is the apparatus through which the power of the harnessed giant is transmitted. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The sun was now fairly harnessed in the service of man in the new great art of Photography. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The harnesses of the farmer's and labouring man's horses a century ago, when they were fortunate enough to own horses, were of the crudest description. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Many harnesses were so encrusted with gold, platinum, silver and precious stones as to entirely hide the leather beneath. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Now the strength and cheapness of harnesses enable the poor man to equip his horse with a working suit impossible to have been produced a hundred years ago. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- I added this saving clause, in the moment of rejecting four richly caparisoned coursers which I had had wild thoughts of harnessing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The horses are harnessing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It had vast potentialities for good and evil--all it wanted was harnessing and directing. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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