释义 |
Examples:caravan of horses carrying goods—magnificent carriage and precious horses (idiom); rich family with extravagant lifestyle—outside horses of a team of 4—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)—lit. a horse that has thrown off the reins (idiom); runaway horse—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. take different roads and urge the horses on [idiom.]—with horses and soldiers gagged [idiom.]—lit. ten thousand stampeding horses [idiom.]—classifier for horses, mules and camels—lit. people shouting and horses neighing [idiom.]—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—making a deer out be a horse (idiom); deliberate misrepresentation—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)—lit. give medicine to a dead horse (idiom); fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation—7th earthly branch: 11 a.m.-1 p.m., noon, 5th solar month (6th June-6th July), year of the Horse—lit. single spear and horse (idiom); fig. single handed—lit. heart like a frisky monkey, mind like a cantering horse (idiom); fig. capricious (derog.)—Court of imperial stud, office originally charged with horse breeding—lit. work like an ox, to work like a horse; fig. to work extremely hard—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 market between Tibet, China, Southeast Asia and India, formalized as a state enterprise under the Song dynasty—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.]— |