put someone through their paces

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词形变化

puts someone through their paces 三单 putting someone through their paces 现在分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To direct a horse to walk, canter, trot, etc.

    动物学 体育
  2. 2.

    To test several or all functions or training of a person, animal, machine, etc.

    比喻

    The new fire chief really put us through our paces: we had to wash all the fire trucks and then had two different fire drills.

    When I test-drove the new car, the salesman let me take it out to the freeway to put it through its paces.