hansom

/han-suhm/US // ˈhæn səm //UK // (ˈhænsəm) //

汉斯姆,汉森,赎金

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a low-hung, two-wheeled, covered vehicle drawn by one horse, for two passengers, with the driver being mounted on an elevated seat behind and the reins running over the roof.
- : any similar horse-drawn vehicle.

Then, as Jessie had confidently anticipated, another figure emerged as if from the door of the garden and hailed the other hansom.
With a grin the cabman touched his cap, the door banged, and the hansom set off as if the fare were in a breakneck hurry.
I immediately took a hansom to Maxwell's rooms, to find that he had gone to Paris in a great hurry.
His first move was to take a hansom and go down to the office of the Mercury and there ask for Mr. Hunt.
He made some remark about the beauty of the night, and a minute later he was bowling back in a hansom to Merehaven House.