单词 | cart |
释义 | cart (kɑːʳt ) Word forms: carts , carting , carted 1. countable noun B2 A cart is an old-fashioned wooden vehicle that is used for transporting goods or people. Some carts are pulled by animals. ...a country where horse-drawn carts far outnumber cars. Synonyms: wagon, wain [mainly poetic] 2. verb If you cart things or people somewhere, you carry them or transport them there, often with difficulty. [informal] One of their father's relatives carted off the entire contents of the house. [VERB noun with adverb] One of them protests loudly, and the Americans cart him away in plastic handcuffs. [VERB noun with adverb] I've been trying to cut down on the stuff that I cart around with me. [VERB noun with adverb] Synonyms: carry, take, bring, bear 3. countable noun A cart is a small vehicle with a motor. [US] Cars are prohibited, so transportation is by electric cart or by horse and buggy. He drove up in a golf cart to watch them. 4. countable noun A cart or a shopping cart is a large metal basket on wheels which is provided by shops such as supermarkets for customers to use while they are in the shop. [US] regional note: in BRIT, use trolley 5. to put the cart before the horse phrase [VERB inflects] If you say that someone is putting the cart before the horse, you mean that they are doing things in the wrong order. [informal, disapproval] The government put the cart before the horse by investing heavily before making major reforms. Idioms: put the cart before the horse to do things in the wrong order Creating large numbers of schools before improving school management is putting the cart before the horse. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: cart ride We recommend the fun horse and cart ride. Times, Sunday Times Carabao cart ride takes visitors to the resort area, surrounded by park-like setting while being serenaded by locals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The beach cart rides on two wheels and fully loaded can weigh nearly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are horse and cart rides and milk floats disguised as trams for those who prefer not to walk. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Adjacent to the pool was a recreation area which included trampolines, miniature golf and donkey cart rides. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The sick who are still strong enough arrive on foot, or by donkey cart, but few buses still run and are unaffordable in any case. Times, Sunday Times Just when we thought ourselves clear, a donkey cart blocked our escape. Times, Sunday Times Hundreds set off on foot or donkey cart in search of shelter outside the area, while others huddled together with friends and family in better-constructed buildings in the same neighbourhood. Times, Sunday Times Two photographs, also in the auction, show them in a donkey cart. Times, Sunday Times Guided tours, traditional meals and donkey cart drives can be arranged. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They have driven a cart horse through the spirit of the rules and regulations. The Sun Its sweeping vista shows cooks and maids, watermen, a porter, carpenters and a man driving a cart, and provides a tantalizing insight into the lives of ordinary people. The Times Literary Supplement Free drove the cart onto the court. Globe and Mail An iceman, driving the cart, would then deliver the ice to the household, using ice tongs to hold the cubes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Driving a cart into the entrance, they halted it there to prevent the gates closing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When she would not, he angrily tipped his bottle of water over her head before climbing on an electric cart to collect his gong. The Sun Fans were then treated to the bizarre sight of an electric cart rolling on to the pitch to wheel him off in a stretcher. The Sun I hit 84.5mph in this souped-up former electric cart, 8mph above 2012's old best. The Sun Returning to the site, she finds a fast electric cart on the track. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Wheelie bins have appeared and the tricycles have been replaced by zippy electric carts. Times, Sunday Times He threw up his arms to protect his head as a food cart hit the roof. canada.com Or had the school food cart been hijacked and reattached in front of the exasperated horse? Times, Sunday Times Instead, there are food carts and, yes, food cart tours. Times, Sunday Times The ingestion of the body and food cart also destroys the engine, causing the plane to lose control. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The voice recorder did record the sound of the passengers using the food cart as a battering ram against the cockpit door. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Deliveries to the docks were by horse-drawn cart. Times, Sunday Times (2017) The feathers were brought from the docks to the warehouse in a horse-drawn cart. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There (2006) The animal could barely stand so he heaved it onto a horse-drawn cart, pleased that he had salvaged something from his trip back. Times, Sunday Times (2014) A blizzard was blowing and they were close to collapse when they stumbled across a horse-drawn cart on a pathway. FRIENDS FOR LIFE (2003) A man and a woman were seriously injured when their horse-drawn cart overturned and threw them on to the road. Times, Sunday Times (2014) He spent eight years of his 20-year sentence behind bars before escaping in a laundry cart in 2001. The Sun He was jailed in 1993 but was sprung from his cell in a laundry cart after lavish bribes were paid. Times, Sunday Times The story has it that he hid in a laundry cart, although he may simply have walked out of the front door. Times, Sunday Times I expect he needed proper use of that laundry cart after spending so long among those unwashed clothes. The Sun These trolleys may often be disguised to resemble laundry carts if transportation has to pass through areas where members of the public may be present. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The luggage carts also cost a pound to hire. Times, Sunday Times This morning, for instance, we woke to birdsong, the trundle of hotel luggage carts pulled by donkeys, and the occasional yowl from a bruiser cat. Times, Sunday Times Some luggage carts at airports and exercise treadmills have this feature. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These luggage carts were not placed by the production. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their products include supplying and maintaining luggage carts, rented with provisions for a small rebate on return of the cart at some airports. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The aircraft's batteries are topped up on the ground with a mobile cart. Times, Sunday Times Their first venture involved selling smoothies at outdoor events from a smart mobile cart. Times, Sunday Times He used a mobile cart for a tour of the facility, though that may have been because of the size of the site. Times,Sunday Times The mobile carts used in the towline approach can be designed with top platens that rotate either manually or automatically. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Petitions eventually allowed for stands to become permanent instead of mobile carts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There was even a camel pulling a cart. The Sun The 29-year-old and his horse, which was pulling a cart, were stopped by officers responding to several 999 calls about the manner in which it was being driven. Times, Sunday Times The animals pulling the carts are often elaborately adorned as well. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The story starts out as a horse pulling a cart. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There she discovered small horses both in wild bands and domesticated individuals that were used by the local people to work the fields and pull their carts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Not just a poor relation to sailing, this quirky alternative uses nothing but wind power to propel a wheeled cart at great speed along the flats. The Sun The aircraft can be modified into a powered parachute by the addition of a wheeled cart that mounts the engine package. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Others believe it derived from a dialect word for a wheeled cart. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Another two wheeled cart, with a bell mounted on the axle, would proceed ahead of the hoses to sound a warning. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The surfboat was also placed on a wheeled cart to travel to a wreck. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 On the way, she gave birth on the back of the wooden cart - in pouring rain. The Sun Customers who poured out of the nearby bars assembled around his battered wooden cart, but it was not the contents of his tea urn they were interested in. Times, Sunday Times He became a food peddler, selling butter and eggs from a wooden cart. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The wooden cart has two large wooden wheels at the front part to easily push the cart though latest carts are already attached to bicycles. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This led him to acquire 2 wooden cart wheels and build an iron bicycle frame. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 手推车, 运送常指费力地 Japanese: 荷馬車, 運ぶ |
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