trot

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n. 快步 vi. 快步走, 小跑 vt. 使小跑, 策马小跑

发音

US /tɹɑt/
AU
UK /tɹɒt/

词形变化

trots 复数 trots 三单 trots trotted trottest trotteth trotting trotting 现在分词 trotted 过去式 trotted 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A gait of a person or animal faster than a walk but slower than a run.

  2. 2.

    A brisk journey or progression.

    We often take the car and have a trot down to the beach.

    In this lesson we'll have a quick trot through Chapter 3 before moving on to Chapter 4.

  3. 3.

    A gait of a four-legged animal between walk and canter, a diagonal gait (in which diagonally opposite pairs of legs move together).

  4. 4.

    A toddler.

    1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, 1869, The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray, Volume V: The Newcomes, Volume I, page 123, […] but Ethel romped with the little children — the rosy little trots — and took them on her knees, and told them a thousand stories.

  5. 5.

    A moderately rapid dance.

    体育
  6. 6.

    A young animal.

    废旧
  7. 7.

    An ugly old woman, a hag.

    古体 贬义
  8. 8.

    A succession of heads thrown in a game of two-up.

    澳大利亚 废旧
  9. 9.

    A run of luck or fortune.

    澳大利亚 新西兰

    He′s had a good trot, but his luck will end soon.

  10. 10.

    Synonym of horse (illegitimate study aid)

    过时 俚语
  11. 11.

    Diarrhoea.

    非正式

    He's got a bad case of the trots and has to keep running off to the toilet.

  12. 1.

    A genre of Korean pop music employing repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.

    不可数
  13. 1.

    Alternative form of Trot (“Trotskyist”).

v.
  1. 1.

    To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run.

    不及物

    I didn't want to miss my bus, so I trotted the last few hundred yards to the stop.

    The dog trotted along obediently by his master's side.

    I would trot ten or twelve miles each day, go into a cheap restaurant and eat my fill of bread, but would never be satisfied. During these wanderings I once hit on a vegetarian restaurant in Farringdon Street. The sight of it filled me with the same joy that a child feels on getting a thing after its own heart.

    They sent little Jane to the garden to play, But she opened the gate, and then trotted away Under the hawthorns and down the green lane, Bad little, mad little, runaway Jane!

  2. 2.

    To move at a gait between a walk and a canter.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.

    及物
  4. 4.

    To bid against (a person) at an auction, so as to raise the price of the goods.

    英国 古体 俚语 及物

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle English trotten, from Old French trotter, troter (“to go, trot”), from Medieval Latin *trottō, *trotō (“to go”), from Frankish *trottōn (“to go, run”), from Proto-Germanic *trudōną, *trudaną, *tradjaną (“to go, step, tread”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreh₂- (“to run, escape”). Cognate with Old High German trottōn (“to run”), Modern German trotten (“to trot, plod”), Gothic 𐍄𐍂𐌿𐌳𐌰𐌽 (trudan, “to tread”), Old Norse troða (“to walk, tread”), Old English tredan (“to step, tread”). Doublet of trade and tread.

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