英语词汇“head of the river”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

head of the river n. (in certain rowing races, esp. ‘bumping’ races at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge: see bump v.¹ 6a) the position of being the leading boat, the winning position; the boat, college, etc., which achieves or holds this position; also in to go head of the river.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > first in race

head of the river1826

paddle-over1906

1826 Lit. Magnet 4 47 After several hard struggles among the racing boats, for holding the head of the river, Christchurch came in victorious.

1841 Yale Lit. Mag. Nov. 40 Trinity was ‘head of the river’ once more, and great was the joy of her inmates.

1867 London Society July 73/1 By the day the races began we were justly considered the best boat on, and our going head of the river was held, on all hands, to be ‘a moral’ [i.e. a moral certainty].

1903 A. Cambridge Thirty Years in Austral. 283 He had been over four years at Geelong, and his boat had been Head of the River most of the time.

1977 J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe viii. 121 When the college next goes head of the river, have the undergraduates build a bonfire of it.

2000 S. H. S. Hughes Steering Course 46 In the previous year..Oriel rowed over as head of the river.

单词	head of the river
释义	> as lemmas head of the river head of the river n. (in certain rowing races, esp. ‘bumping’ races at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge: see bump v.¹ 6a) the position of being the leading boat, the winning position; the boat, college, etc., which achieves or holds this position; also in to go head of the river. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > boat racing or race > [noun] > first in race head of the river1826 paddle-over1906 1826 Lit. Magnet 4 47 After several hard struggles among the racing boats, for holding the head of the river, Christchurch came in victorious. 1841 Yale Lit. Mag. Nov. 40 Trinity was ‘head of the river’ once more, and great was the joy of her inmates. 1867 London Society July 73/1 By the day the races began we were justly considered the best boat on, and our going head of the river was held, on all hands, to be ‘a moral’ [i.e. a moral certainty]. 1903 A. Cambridge Thirty Years in Austral. 283 He had been over four years at Geelong, and his boat had been Head of the River most of the time. 1977 J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe viii. 121 When the college next goes head of the river, have the undergraduates build a bonfire of it. 2000 S. H. S. Hughes Steering Course 46 In the previous year..Oriel rowed over as head of the river. extracted from headn.¹ < as lemmas
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