| 单词 | racehorse trainer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasracehorse trainer C1. General attributive in sense ‘relating to, characteristic of, or resembling a racehorse (sense 1a)’. Also objective, in racehorse trainer. ΚΠ ?1746 J. Symmonds Wandsworth Campaign i. 31 Clevario! take thy Coarce, And to the North repair with Race-Horse Speed. 1839 C. Dickens Let. ?25 Nov. (1965) I. 605 Barnaby moves—not at racehorse speed. 1845 W. G. Simms Wigwam & Cabin 1st Ser. 32 He had the sanguine, the race-horse temperament. 1962 D. Francis Dead Cert iii. 27 Pete Gregory, racehorse trainer. 1978 Eng. Jrnl. Dec. 72/1 What Charles Cooper refers to as ‘race-horse studies’..often compared tactics for forcing students through the hoops handed down from the textbook writers. 1987 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 31 Mar. b7 These are serious clothes that look..marvelously attractive on the tall models with racehorse bodies. 1992 Watertown (N.Y.) Daily Times 24 Apr. 19/6 His racehorse style failed to deliver enough excitement or victories. < as lemmas |
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