| 单词 | to ride a pace |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ride a (good) pace a. to ride a (good) pace and variants: to proceed on horseback or (in later use) on a bicycle at the designated rate of progress. ΚΠ a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 11657 (MED) Marie folewed ridyng good paas. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Corpus Cambr. 61) (1895) v. l. 60 Forth she rit [a1413 Morgan right] ful sorwfully a pas. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. ii. i. 60 If he that receiues the horse, can find..that hee hath ridden an extraordinarye pace, hee shall pay ten soulz. 1702 G. Farquhar Inconstant i. i. 1 We have rid a swinging pace, from Nemours. 1847 F. B. Harden Hall xxi. 270 Never fear for Sandford; he will ride a good pace on that capital little pony. 1882 B. D. W. Ramsay Recoll. Mil. Serv. I. v. 131 To ride a breakneck pace round Jacko Hill. 2003 K. Wenzel & R. Wenzel Bike Racing 101 78 Pick a gear in which you can comfortably ride a good pace on a flat road. < as lemmas |
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