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(jī)總是能讓人們回想起以往的歲月。