喜樂美語
  1. 1騎馬；馬術

    Riding, in this sense, is the sport or of sitting on a horse and going out on it — for pleasure, for a lesson, or in a competition. In British English, if someone says they go riding at the weekend, they almost always mean a horse, not a bike and not a . You can take riding lessons, keep a horse at a riding school, or buy riding boots made for the . In American English people more often say riding, because riding alone might make you think of a bus or a car. The word itself is ordinary, not , though the activity can look expensive. Show jumping and are the dressed-up side of the same thing; families still just say riding.

    「riding」指騎在馬上出去，當成運動、消遣或比賽。在英式英語中，如果有人說週末去 go riding，幾乎一定指騎馬，不是騎腳踏車或摩托車。你可以上「riding lessons」（騎馬課），在馬術學校養馬，或買「riding boots」（騎馬靴）。

    美式英語比較常說 horseback riding，因為只說 riding 可能會讓人想到公車或汽車。這個字本身很普通，不是高級用語，不過這項活動可能很花錢。障礙賽和盛裝舞步是比較講究的一面，但家人還是只說 riding。

組成ride (to sit on and control a horse) + -ing (turns the verb into the name of the activity). From Middle English rydyng.

同家族的字

  • ridethe verb this noun is built from
  • ridera person who rides

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

Ridingname

  • 1

    A surname.

ridingnoun詞源 1/ˈɹaɪ.dɪŋ/

  • 1

    A path cut through woodland.

  • 2

    The act of one who rides; a mounted excursion.

    • I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings.
  • 3

    The behaviour in the motion of a vehicle, such as oscillation.

    • The admirable smoothness of the riding also reflected the greatest credit on those who, despite the difficulties caused by the shortage of men and materials, have succeeded in maintaining the track in such first-class order.
    • A maximum of 80 m.p.h. was quickly reached on the 1 in 264 down through Three Bridges and at this pace the riding was exemplary.
  • 4

    historicalA festival procession.

    • It was sung from the top of the oldest house in the burgh every June at the Common riding, which served both for a perambulation of the bounds of the common pastures or Haughs and to commemorate the young men of Harwick[.]

ridingnoun詞源 2/ˈɹaɪ.dɪŋ/

  • 1

    historicalAny of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern counties of England.

  • 2

    Electoral district or constituency.

    • Ontario shall be divided into the Counties, Ridings of Counties, Cities, Parts of Cities, and Towns enumerated in the First Schedule to this Act[…]

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