| 单词 | rickshaw boy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrickshaw boy General attributive and objective, as rickshaw boy, rickshaw cycle, rickshaw driver, rickshaw man, rickshaw runner, rickshaw puller, etc. ΚΠ 1882 San Francisco Chron. 30 July 1 The rickisha man keeps up a pace like a deer, his body generally bare to the sun. 1892 J. Murdoch From Austral. & Japan i. 133 Pimps in the guise of rickshaw coolies. 1915 G. Frankau Tid'apa ii. 10 ‘Come here. Come up here, dear,’ they cry To the drunkly-waving seaman as his rickshaw-wheels roll by. 1933 M. Lowry Ultramarine iii. 144 The rickshaw-wallah ran away with us, his sandals padding. 1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse ii. 34 Zulu Rickshaw-pullers..emptied quarts of heady ‘tchwala’. 1969 Observer 29 Oct. 29/2 A posse of rickshaw-cycles and cyclists come tearing round the corner. 1973 Country Life 1 Nov. 1322/2 I found myself face to face with a hundred rickshaw-tricycle boys. 2004 I. McDonald River of Gods (2005) xxx. 345 The rickshaw driver looked about twelve. < as lemmas |
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