21-08-30 To horse around 意思是闹着玩儿，嬉戏玩耍。 例句 During the school holidays there was no peace in the house. Johnny and Annie horsed around all day, every day. I was horsing around with some friends in the library - we got told to leave. 请注意 短语...

21-08-30 短语 to chicken out 的意思是某人因为害怕而临阵退缩，退出了。 例句 Johnny says he is an action man but he chickened out of riding a horse. Are you absolutely sure you want to go bungee jumping with me? I dont want you to chicken out at the last minut...

21-08-09 我们可以对行为言语盛气凌人、趾高气扬、摆大架子的人说 get off your high horse, get down off your high horse 或 come off your high horse. 例句 Stop criticising everyone! You should get down off your high horse and admit that you arent perfect either!...

21-06-04 1 hold ones horse 忍耐，镇静，别冲动。 Dad, please hold your horse before you get mad at me... 爸，在对我发火之前，请你忍耐一下 2 clothes horse 爱打扮，赶时髦的人。 Princess Diana was a real clothes horse. Its hard to imagine how much she had spent...

21-06-04 1 a horse pill 大药丸，大型丸剂。 This is not a horse pill. This is your pain pill which doctor prescribed. 这不是大药片。这就是医生给你开的止疼药。 2 a horse laugh 狂笑，讥笑，不信任的笑。 At the end of the joke she gave a horse laugh that could be...

21-03-18 In this state of schemes, and hopes, and connivance, June opened upon Hartfield. To Highbury in general it brought no material change. The Eltons were still talking of a visit from the Sucklings, and of the use to be made of their barouche-landau; a...

21-02-24 Motionless in his saddle, save for an occasional restless stamp of his horse, Bud Jessup waited patiently in front of the adobe shack at Las Vegas camp. His face was serious and thoughtful, and his glance was fixed on the open door through which cam...

21-02-24 A few hundred yards away from the fence strung along the western side of middle pasture, Mary Thorne pulled her horse down to a walk and straightened her hat mechanically. Her cheeks were flushed becomingly and her eyes shone, but at the end of that...

21-02-24 More than once during the following few days, Stratton was forced to a grudging admiration, of Tex Lynchs cleverness. Even knowing what he did, he failed to detect the slightest sign in either the foreman or his men that they were waiting expectantl...

21-01-21 Great was the mourning for Sancho, because his talents and virtues made him universally admired and beloved. Miss Celia advertised, Thorny offered rewards, and even surly Pat kept a sharp look-out for poodle dogs when he went to market; but no Sanch...