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dray

/drey/US // dreɪ //UK // (dreɪ) //

醉翁之意不在酒,醉酒者,醉汉

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a low, strong cart without fixed sides, for carrying heavy loads.
    • : a sledge or sled.
    • : any vehicle, as a truck, used to haul goods, especially one used to carry heavy loads.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to convey on a dray.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to drive or operate a dray, especially as an occupation.
    • : to convey goods by dray, especially locally or for short distances.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Excerpted from Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen by Philip Dray.

  • Or, they may be less benevolent, as Dray believes Gorelik was.

  • Dray says that the doctors she had seen in the practice prior to her delivery were, in fact, supportive of her VBAC plan.

  • Dray glances at me and then looks away when I ask her if she is going to have any more children.

  • While impressive, these figures are largely irrelevant for Dray.

  • What were you doing, coming from the west with a woman like that in the dray?

  • Jack Beckley was haled to court on a dray, too oblivious of everything to answer any charge.

  • It was a covered-in dray, and had been brought to in a little clearing of the scrubby undergrowth.

  • Sixteen men at Hankow to carry baggage that one man and a one-horse dray would carry in New York.

  • In the steep roadway on the right a dray, loaded with barrels, creaked and jolted upward.