日常英語 hold one's horse 忍耐，鎮(zhèn)靜，別沖動

1 hold one's horse 忍耐，鎮(zhèn)靜，別沖動。

Dad, please hold your horse before you get mad at me...

爸，在對我發(fā)火之前，請你忍耐一下……

2 clothes horse 愛打扮，趕時髦的人。

Princess Diana was a real clothes horse. It's hard to imagine how much she had spent on clothes.

戴安娜王妃是一個很講究穿戴的人，很難想象她花在衣服上的錢有多少。

*此外clothes horse figure指“衣服架子”，就是那種穿什么都好看的人。

3 talk horse 吹牛。

They often talk horse when they are free. 他們有空時常常在一起吹牛。

4 one-horse town 落后的小地方。

Then Beijing was a gray, drab, one-horse town where the main means of transportation was the bicycle.

那時的北京是一個灰色、乏味、設(shè)施簡陋的城市，主要交通工具是自行車。

5 horse-and-buggy days 馬車時代，以往歲月。

The post-industrial crisis always reminds citizens of the horse-and-buggy days.

后工業(yè)時代的危機總是能讓人們回想起以往的歲月。