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carriage

/kar-ij; for 9 also kar-ee-ij/US // ˈkær ɪdʒ; for 9 also ˈkær i ɪdʒ //UK // (ˈkærɪdʒ) //

车厢,马车,车厢内,车厢里的人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a wheeled vehicle for conveying persons, as one drawn by horses and designed for comfort and elegance.
    • : baby carriage.
    • : British. a railway passenger coach.
    • : a wheeled support, as for a cannon.
    • : a movable part, as of a machine, designed for carrying something.
    • : manner of carrying the head and body; bearing: the carriage of a soldier.
    • : Also called carriage piece, horse. an inclined beam, as a string, supporting the steps of a stair.
    • : the act of transporting; conveyance: the expenses of carriage.
    • : the price or cost of transportation.
    • : the moving part carrying the platen and its associated parts, usually set in motion to carry the paper across the point where the print element or type bars strike.
    • : management; administration.

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Examples

  • Snipers watched from rooftops and windows, and Lincoln had been guarded by infantry and cavalry on his carriage ride through the streets to the Capitol.

  • Andrew Jackson started the trend of riding to the inauguration in a carriage with his successor, Martin Van Buren, and that has been pretty common throughout history after him.

  • Yet when I close my eyes, I don’t see my dark hands clutching the carriage seat or holding a goblet of ratafia in the company of the gentry.

  • Edward Valentine had his studio in a nearby carriage house, which after his death was relocated to the grounds of the museum.

  • Cross-country ski the many miles of groomed carriage roads throughout the grounds.

  • Going hands-free is just one of the perks of a place where the only form of transportation is by carriage, bike, or tractor.

  • Or a horse and carriage, like the one driven a young man in a tweed suit and cap from yesteryear, as he gazed up at the stars.

  • Mandelbaum responded by punching Frank in the nose and knocking him from the carriage.

  • Meet Roger, the horse saved from slaughter by a carriage driver.

  • He made his views on the carriage controversy known in a letter to a City Council member back in 2009.

  • He replied that he had no objections, provided she did not encumber the carriage with bandboxes, which were his utter abhorrence.

  • A gentleman got out of a carriage before it stopped, and fell between the rail and the platform.

  • "She did not think so:" why should she have taken the trouble to look out of the carriage window at me as she said these words?

  • "God bless 'ee, Missy," cried the old man in the shrill cracked voice of age, as he pressed up to the carriage window.

  • Liszt and his titled friends travelled in a first class carriage by themselves.