cartn.
1.❶farm-cart used for carrying away the corn afterharvest（收获时装载谷物的）农事用车。
❷cart used for thepublic exposure and punishment of prostitutes （载着妓女游街示众所用的）车。
△As.3.2.114(107):“They thatreap must sheaf and bind,/Then to cart with Rosa-lind.”收割的粮食必须一束一束捆得紧，装车时可不能忘记捎上罗萨琳。(按：Touchstone这话表层意思说的是农家收割，同时也双关着第二种意思开玩笑。)
2. i.e. hangman’s cart proceeding to the gallows,tumbrel大车，（指）刑车，死囚押送车。
△1H.Ⅳ.2.4.553(496):“If I become not a cart as well as another man,a plague on my bringing up!”要是我坐在刑车上不像任何别人那样神气，就让我的教养遭瘟去吧！
cart draws the horse,the: i.e.there is something ob- viously wrong or preposterous. 车子拉马，（意谓）事情明显荒谬或颠倒。
△Lr.1.4.246 (223): “May not an ass(i.e. a fool) know when the cart draws the horse?” i.e. when a daughter gives instructions to her royalfather instead of her father his daughter. 车子拉起马来了，一头蠢驴能看不出吗？
cartvt. carry through the streets as a public exposure把…装上大车游街示众。
△Shr.1.1.55: “To cart herrather.”倒不如把她装在大车上游游街。 cart[kɑ:t]n. 大车，手推车 v. 载运，运输
◇ in the cart 处于困境
put the cart before the horse 本末倒置
‖ cartage n. 货车运货，货车运货费
cartage contractor 陆运承包商
cartage department 搬运处
cartage note 运费单，搬运许可证
cartage order (local transport)短途货运单
cartage port 驳船港
cartage service 搬运业务，陆运服务
cartage undertaking 搬运业
carter n. 赶大车者 |