| 单词 | tote |
| 释义 | toteWord family verbtotenountote bag tote /təʊt $ toʊt/ (also tote around) verb [transitiveT] especially American EnglishAmE informalCARRY to carry something, especially regularly 〔尤指经常性地〕随身携带 Kids have to tote heavy textbooks around. 孩子们不得不随身携带沉重的课本。 Examples from the Corpus tote• a gun-toting cowboy• Nora is watching the sea, through a huge pair of First World War binoculars that she is toting.• All told, I counted about 200 catalogs that my overburdened mail carrier had to tote and deliver during the Christmas season.• She followed him out into the hallway, toting her small suitcase.• A small army of men toting machine guns stood at the gate, which slowly swung open in front of us.• He has toted the ball and the expectations, for better or worse.• My job was to tote their golf bags and wash their cars.• Instead, he said, they toted their shotguns inside the mansion, burst into the den, and emptied their weapons. Tote noun the Tote DGGa system in Britain in which a machine adds together the amounts of money bet on a horse race and divides the total among the people who bet on the winner 〔英国赛马的〕赌金计算系统 Examples from the Corpus Tote• The bar sells ¼ gill with mixer for £1 and a half pint soft drink will remain at 50p. Tote.• But for a young casual Tote employee the incident had a different ending.• Angry punters demonstrated on the course after the first race, while negotiations went on between track officials and the Tote workers.• More recently, the Tote has used its modest profits to acquire a chain of still more modestly profitable betting shops.• In addition to those who backed Party Politics at 14-1 there was one other big winner: the Tote. (1600-1700) Perhaps from Gullah tot “to carry”, probably from a West African language |
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