单词 | to ride a race |
释义 | > as lemmasto ride a race (also circuit, course, etc.) a. transitive. To cover or traverse (a certain distance) on horseback or, in later use, by bicycle, etc.; (also) to make (a journey or expedition) on horseback, etc. Also in to ride a race (also circuit, course, etc.). ΚΠ OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 160 Ac [hi] ridon ofer twelf mila to Rodan þæra ea. lOE Laws of Æðelstan (Rochester) vi. v. 176 Man ne forlæte nane æscan.., ær ælc man hæbbe ane rade geriden þe hors habbe. c1300 St. Edward Elder (Laud) l. 80 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 49 (MED) He ne rod bote wel luyte wei are he feol to grounde. c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) G. §3. l. 555 Er we hadde riden fully fyue Mile At Boghtoun vnder Blee vs gan atake A man. c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 506 Gawan hase my rawunsun made For a course þat he rode, And felle him in þe fild brode. a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 5098 So furth he gothe in to the feld anon, And rode a course onto kyng lamedon. 1599 in T. Fowler Hist. Corpus Christi Coll. (1893) 352 The Fellows whom the rest appoint for the time to ride the circuit with the President. 1617 Sir E. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 251 My brother..rid in two days a hundred miles. 1666 in Juridical Rev. (1912–13) 24 15 I had ridine with them a milne or more. a1777 S. Foote Cozeners (1778) i. 16 But were you to see him on the turf, at Newmarket,..Why, he has rid matches. 1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 115 He rides a race! 'Tis for a thousand pound! 1808 W. Scott Marmion i. xxiii. 45 We can neither hunt, nor ride A foray on the Scottish side. 1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas II. 152 These poor wretches, who have to ride three or four hundred miles on end without stoppage of more than two hours. 1880 A. Forbes Glimpses through Cannon-smoke 176 He would ride that distance any day to spend an hour or two in a house brightened by the presence of womanhood. 1926 Rifle Brigade Chron. for 1925 94 Buxton, who rode a well-judged race, came with a rattle and won the most popular victory of the day. 1986 J. McPhee Rising from Plains 109 When the boys were teen-aged, they occasionally saddled up and rode twenty-six miles to dances in Shoshoni. 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 30 May d1/4 Riding 100 miles on a bike..isn't actually as difficult as it would seem. < as lemmas |
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