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A racehorse is a horse bred and trained to run in , not a farm horse or a quiet riding-school horse. People choose the parents for speed, and the animal’s days are built around training, racing, and sometimes having foals later. Though actually, a horse that simply runs fast in a field is not a racehorse; the word is for that job and that breeding. In everyday talk, a racehorse is the animal. The sport is horse racing, or the .
賽駒、競賽用的馬(不是「賽馬」這項運動本身)
組成From race + horse.
同家族的字
- racethe first half: horse racing
- horsethe second half: the animal
- racecourseshares race: the track this horse runs on
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
racehorsenoun
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A horse that competes in races.
- They were bosker horses. Until I went to work for Bill I didn't know how good racehorses are.
- Long before you see the lean, handsome heads peering mildly over the half-doors of the loose boxes, you know that East Ilsley's business is training racehorses.
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Any member of certain species of genus Congiopodus.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。