单词 | to ride transport |
释义 | > as lemmasto ride transport i. South African. to ride transport [after Afrikaans ry transport] : to convey goods, to work as a goods carrier. Cf. sense 8, transport-rider n., transport-riding n. at transport n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1874 in J. C. Brown Water Supply S. Afr. (1877) iii. ii. 287 There were no cattle in the country in a fit state to ride transport from the coast. 1905 P. Gibbon Margaret Harding 61 When I was a young man I rode transport... Then I travelled. 1937 C. R. Prance Tante Rebella's Saga 125 The ox- and the donkey-wagon are almost obsolete, and with them has died out Jock's hope to make his poorer debtors ride transport to work off their debt. 1998 B. M. Du Toit Boers in E. Afr. v. 82 The men might be out in the fields, tending livestock, riding transport, or hunting. < as lemmas |
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