1. 1賽駒、競賽用的馬(不是「賽馬」這項運動本身)

    A racehorse is a horse bred and trained to run in , not a farm horse or a quiet riding-school horse. People choose the parents for speed, and the animal’s days are built around training, racing, and sometimes having foals later. Though actually, a horse that simply runs fast in a field is not a racehorse; the word is for that job and that breeding. In everyday talk, a racehorse is the animal. The sport is horse racing, or the .

core核心畫面

組成From race + horse.

同家族的字

  • racethe first half: horse racing
  • horsethe second half: the animal
  • racecourseshares race: the track this horse runs on

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

racehorsenoun

  • 1

    A horse that competes in races.

    • They were bosker horses. Until I went to work for Bill I didn't know how good racehorses are.
    • Long before you see the lean, handsome heads peering mildly over the half-doors of the loose boxes, you know that East Ilsley's business is training racehorses.
  • 2

    Any member of certain species of genus Congiopodus.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。