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单词 musher
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musher1

noun ˈmʌʃəˈməSHər
  • The driver of a dog sled.

    〈北美〉赶狗拉雪橇的人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The dog team and its musher would go flying past.
    • I'm finally back in my room and feeling a special sort of sympathy for Iditarod mushers.
    • This is a form of transportation that requires no motor but relies heavily on trust between a team of dogs and their musher.
    • To complete the course, she'll depend on a musher riding ahead and radioing back warnings of low branches, obstinate moose, and open water.
    • But they also tell their story in a style straightforward enough that readers will be swept up in the drama of how 20 mushers covered nearly 700 miles in about six days.
    • Most mushers start with the maximum-allowed team of 16 dogs but settle down to 12 to 14 for the main haul beyond Rainy Pass.
    • Winning mushers incredibly cover the distance in just nine to 12 days.
    • The mushers we work with all adore their animals.
    • People unfamiliar with sled-dog racing think the Iditarod is won by the best musher.
    • After an hour or so, the musher stopped to wait for the skiers to catch up.
    • They must be able to make good decisions in guiding the team, and with a maximum of two to three hours of sleep each day, many mushers suffer from severe sleep deprivation, often resulting in failed concentration and hallucinations.
    • On the day that mushers from around the world met in Anchorage for the 1150-mile ‘last great race on Earth’, some friends and I hurtled for 15 miles across the Norwegian mountains, feeling very brave indeed.
    • The gallery ends with a display contrasting an old-time musher with someone geared for modern dog sled travel.
    • Top mushers are always spying on each other, looking for ploys to shave time - like how the other guy gets 64 booties on and off his dogs at a rest stop.
    • Climbers atop Everest phone home via portable satellite dishes, while pocket-size global positioning systems guide mushers on the Yukon Quest trail.
    • Just 10 minutes earlier, Smith had introduced me and a few other first-time mushers to dogsledding, and now I found myself listening to the excited baying of my dogs, who obviously were more confident about dashing into the forest than I was.
    • Several hours on the sled and I was beginning to consider myself a real hard-core musher.
    • But we continued to zoom past the wooden posts with yellow bands on them, marking the no man's land, a two kilometre wide border between Finland and Russia where not even mushers may roam.
    • They react to the commands of their musher, acting as the steering, accelerator and brakes.
    • It was very exciting to watch as 10 teams took off with mushers from Wisconsin, Alaska, Yukon and Saskatchewan.

musher2

noun ˈmʌʃəˈməSHər
British informal
  • A person who owns and drives a taxi cab.

    〈英,非正式〉个体出租车司机

Origin

Late 19th century: from slang mush 'owner-driver of a cab', from mushroom, apparently referring to the increase in the number of vehicles owned as the business grows.

musher1

nounˈməSHər
  • The driver of a dogsled.

    〈北美〉赶狗拉雪橇的人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The gallery ends with a display contrasting an old-time musher with someone geared for modern dog sled travel.
    • To complete the course, she'll depend on a musher riding ahead and radioing back warnings of low branches, obstinate moose, and open water.
    • Most mushers start with the maximum-allowed team of 16 dogs but settle down to 12 to 14 for the main haul beyond Rainy Pass.
    • They react to the commands of their musher, acting as the steering, accelerator and brakes.
    • Top mushers are always spying on each other, looking for ploys to shave time - like how the other guy gets 64 booties on and off his dogs at a rest stop.
    • Several hours on the sled and I was beginning to consider myself a real hard-core musher.
    • The dog team and its musher would go flying past.
    • I'm finally back in my room and feeling a special sort of sympathy for Iditarod mushers.
    • This is a form of transportation that requires no motor but relies heavily on trust between a team of dogs and their musher.
    • But they also tell their story in a style straightforward enough that readers will be swept up in the drama of how 20 mushers covered nearly 700 miles in about six days.
    • On the day that mushers from around the world met in Anchorage for the 1150-mile ‘last great race on Earth’, some friends and I hurtled for 15 miles across the Norwegian mountains, feeling very brave indeed.
    • Just 10 minutes earlier, Smith had introduced me and a few other first-time mushers to dogsledding, and now I found myself listening to the excited baying of my dogs, who obviously were more confident about dashing into the forest than I was.
    • Winning mushers incredibly cover the distance in just nine to 12 days.
    • But we continued to zoom past the wooden posts with yellow bands on them, marking the no man's land, a two kilometre wide border between Finland and Russia where not even mushers may roam.
    • The mushers we work with all adore their animals.
    • They must be able to make good decisions in guiding the team, and with a maximum of two to three hours of sleep each day, many mushers suffer from severe sleep deprivation, often resulting in failed concentration and hallucinations.
    • After an hour or so, the musher stopped to wait for the skiers to catch up.
    • It was very exciting to watch as 10 teams took off with mushers from Wisconsin, Alaska, Yukon and Saskatchewan.
    • People unfamiliar with sled-dog racing think the Iditarod is won by the best musher.
    • Climbers atop Everest phone home via portable satellite dishes, while pocket-size global positioning systems guide mushers on the Yukon Quest trail.

musher2

nounˈməSHər
British informal
  • A person who owns and drives a taxi cab.

    〈英,非正式〉个体出租车司机

Origin

Late 19th century: from slang mush ‘owner-driver of a cab’, from mushroom, apparently referring to the increase in the number of vehicles owned as the business grows.

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