| 单词 | to ride double |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ride double c. In a pair or couple; two together, two at once; as in to ride double, i.e. two on one horse. So of a horse, etc., to carry double. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > ride with two on one horse to ride double1599 to ride in tie1908 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 51 As this host of fethermungers were getting vp to ride double. 1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow sig. F2v He neuer drinkes but double, for hee must be pledg'd. 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 33 Marriage is but a Beast, some say, That carries double in foul way. a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) ii. i, in Wks. (1821) II. 39 Content to ride double, behind the butler. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I cxl. 73 To prove her mistress had been sleeping double. < as lemmas |
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