释义 |
Examples:caravan of horses carrying goods—magnificent carriage and precious horses (idiom); rich family with extravagant lifestyle—outlandish sounds (wind blowing on frontier, wild horses neighing etc)—lit. once said, a team of horses cannot unsay it (idiom); a promise must be kept—side horse (in a team of harnessed horses)—strong soldiers and sturdy horses—lit. stout horses and light furs—classifier for saddle-horses—figurines of warriors and horses buried with the dead—Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates, such as horses, zebras etc)—precious horses and magnificent carriage (idiom); rich family with extravagant lifestyle—prepare horses and chariots for battle—(of a pair of horses) pull side by side—approach at swift gallop (on horses)—horses and wagons for an expedition—riders tired and horses weary—thousands of horses, all mute (idiom); no-one dares speak out—lit. light furs and stout horses—vehicles and horses used in battle—(of mules, horses etc) kick backward—all the King's horses and all the King's men—recruit soldiers and buy horses (idiom); to raise a large army—magnificent army with thousands of men and horses (idiom); impressive display of manpower—pasture for cattle and horses—crossbar for yoking horses—relay station for post horses (old)—lit. ride a solid carriage pulled by fat horses—age (of cattle, horses etc)—clatter (of horses' hoofs)—lit. people shouting and horses neighing [idiom.]—lit. take different roads and urge the horses on [idiom.]—classifier for horses, mules and camels—lit. ten thousand stampeding horses [idiom.]—Minister of imperial stud, originally charged with horse breeding—call sth a cow or a horse (idiom); it doesn't matter what you call it—lock the stable door after the horse has bolted—(arch.) metal horn attached as shield horse or to the axle of a chariot—cock-fighting and horse-racing (idiom); gamble—Horse-Face, one of the two guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology—tear off a person's four limbs and head using five horse drawn carts (as capital punishment)—an old horse knows the way (idiom); an experienced worker knows what do—lit. single spear and horse (idiom); fig. single handed—lit. heart like a frisky monkey, mind like a cantering horse (idiom); fig. capricious (derog.)—old horse sniffs the wind (idiom); fig. aged person with great aspirations—lit. work like an ox, to work like a horse; fig. to work extremely hard—green plum and bamboo hobby-horse (idiom); a couple who were friends from childhood—Bo Le (horse connoisseur during Spring and Autumn Period)—you can lead a horse water but you can't make him drink—old tea-horse road or southern Silk Road, dating back 6th century, from Tibet and Sichuan through Yunnan and Southeast Asia, reaching to Bhutan, Sikkim, India and beyond—the Baima or White horse temple in Luoyang, one of the earliest Buddhist temples in China—Trojan horse, add malware to a website or program (computing)—take a deer and call it a horse (idiom); deliberate inversion of the truth—lit. an old horse knows the way home (idiom); fig. in difficulty, trust an experience colleague—lit. rein in the horse at the edge of the precipice (idiom); fig. to act in the nick of time—order of odd-toed ungulate (including horse, tapir, rhinoceros)—clay ox, wooden horse (idiom); shape without substance—lit. be struck by an arrow and fall from one's horse—lit. a good horse doesn't come back the same pasture [idiom.]—lit. the old man lost his horse, but it all turned out for the best [idiom.]—a horse cannot get fat without an extra ration, a man cannot get rich without an extra income [idiom.]—lit. looking for a fine horse using only a picture [idiom.]— |