单词 | mahout |
释义 | mahout From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmahoutma‧hout /mɑːˈhuːt, məˈhaʊt $ məˈhaʊt/ noun [countable]TATTsomeone who rides and trains elephantsExamples from the Corpusmahout• A mahout washes down his charge.• The drawing was of an infuriated male elephant about the charge a little mahout or elephant driver.• Most mahouts, though sadly not all, value their elephants too highly to ill-treat them.• It probably depends on the mahout who rides and works them.• At first the difficulty was with the mahouts rather than the koonkies.• She'd read that when an elephant has a wound, the mahout squirts chilli juice in its eyes by way of distraction.• The mahout, as he gives a command, reinforces the order with leg pressure just as if riding a horse. |
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