字面：一匹馬拉的
這一支就是畫面本身，沒有比喻：數馬，數出一匹。
adjective · C1
Pulled or worked by a single horse. It is used before a noun about carts, wagons, sleighs, ploughs and other things that one horse moves.
單匹馬拉的
核心畫面
Picture a cart with a single horse in front of it. Count the horses and you get one — and one horse is the smallest working team there is. It carries the least, it goes the slowest, and there is no second horse to share the load. That one animal can be read two ways, and English uses both. Read it as 'only one, so barely anything': a town with one horse in it is a town with nothing much in it. Read it as 'only one on the track': if a single horse is running, the result is already known.
可以想成一輛車前面只掛著一匹馬。數一數，就一匹——而一匹馬是最小的一組人力。載得最少，走得最慢，也沒有第二匹可以分擔…更多收起
可以想成一輛車前面只掛著一匹馬。數一數，就一匹——而一匹馬是最小的一組人力。載得最少，走得最慢，也沒有第二匹可以分擔。這一匹馬可以讀成兩種意思，英文兩種都用了。讀成「只有一匹，所以什麼都不夠」：一個只有一匹馬的鎮，就是什麼都沒有的鎮。讀成「跑道上只有一匹」：只有一匹馬在跑，勝負根本不用等。Three branches
小到不值一提
把「只有一匹馬」讀成「什麼都只有一個」：一間店、一天一班車、一個人顧。
adjective · C1
Used in 'a one-horse town' to talk about a very small town where little happens and there is not much to do. It is informal, and it sounds a bit unkind about the place, so people often use it jokingly about their own home town.
小得沒什麼好逛的小鎮
跑道上只有一匹
同一匹馬，換個場地：不是拉車，是在跑道上，而且旁邊沒有對手。
adjective · C1
Used in 'a one-horse race' to talk about a race, election, or any competition in which one person or team is so far ahead that the result already looks decided.
毫無懸念的比賽