cart horse

常見例句

He could be a cart horse or a lead pony.
他可以拉貨車或是在賽場(chǎng)上做引路馬。
I don't rate myself as a fantastic, talented athlete. I just have perseverance. I'm a cart horse. I work hard.
我不認(rèn)為自己是一個(gè)出色而又天資高的運(yùn)動(dòng)員。我有的就是不屈不撓的毅力。我就是輛拉貨的馬車，我努力工作。
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"It's fundamentally clear that the McLaren wing design is totally illegal, " Bell told the BBC. "They have driven a cart horse through the spirit of the rules and regulations.
很明顯麥克拉倫的尾翼設(shè)計(jì)是完全違規(guī)的“，Bell 對(duì)BBC這么說(shuō)," 他們無(wú)視了賽會(huì)制度以及規(guī)則的精神，此舉將會(huì)帶來(lái)另一場(chǎng)裝備的競(jìng)賽，各大車隊(duì)會(huì)因此花費(fèi)很多錢，管理機(jī)構(gòu)處理這種情況時(shí)應(yīng)該更為強(qiáng)硬一些。”

This in some ways might seem a case of putting the cart before the horse or the cart before the course maybe because how can you say how can we say ? what political philosophy is in advance of doing it?
這好像有點(diǎn),本末倒置,或說(shuō)未卜先知,因?yàn)槟銈冊(cè)跄苷?，我們?cè)跄?先談?wù)握軐W(xué)，之后再來(lái)實(shí)作呢？
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
So there is this story about his Uncle Hoskins who takes his horse and cart with Richard in the back and drives it into the middle of the Mississippi River as a kind of practical joke on Richard.
有個(gè)故事是關(guān)于他的叔叔Hoskins的,他讓理查坐在他的馬車后,卻連人帶車掉到密西西比河里,這被作為了一個(gè)理查的真實(shí)笑話。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國(guó)小說(shuō)課程節(jié)選

Ironic also is that these twin ideologies both put the cart before the horse.
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In so doing, the administration placed the cart before the horse, with predictable results.
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Typical to these in-the-public-eye head-games they intentionally have the cart before the horse.
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