rein up

短语

放慢, 止住, 控制

词形变化

reined up reining up reins up 三单 reins up reining up 现在分词 reined up 过去式 reined up 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To bring a ridden animal to a halt by pulling on the reins.

    不及物

    1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.

  2. 2.

    To fit reins on (a horse).

    及物
  3. 3.

    To stop, to cause to come to a halt.

    及物