- 1雪橇（大型、動物拉的那種；聖誕老公公坐的也是這個，不是小孩滑雪坡那種小雪橇）
A sleigh is a large open vehicle with no wheels, built to travel over snow, and pulled by animals — horses in real winter countries, in Christmas pictures. Santa’s sleigh is the picture most students already have, and that picture is fair: it is for riding in, not for belly-sliding down a hill. A child’s small sled is usually a different, smaller thing; people do mix the two words, especially in America, but the tidy difference is size and purpose. The word can feel a little storybook or old-fashioned in places with no snow. There is a verb, to sleigh, meaning to ride in one, but you will almost always meet the noun. It is said like “slay,” not like “sleep” or “.”
組成It does not split. English took it from Modern Dutch slee, from Middle Dutch slede, going back to Proto-Germanic *slidô. Sled is the same word in another shape — a doublet. Slide is a relative: both come from that old idea of moving smoothly.
原始詞典資料5 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。
Sleighname
- 1
A surname.
sleighnoun詞源 1/sleɪ/
- 1
A vehicle, generally pulled by an animal, which moves over snow or ice on runners, used for transporting persons or goods. (contrast "sled", which is smaller)
- Santa travels in a sleigh.
- In 1958, it was reported that for "the fourth year in succession, staff of four South London stations have combined to decorate the booking hall at Peckham Rye station". They installed a nativity scene, models of Father Christmas, and a sleigh driven by huskies, and Christmas trees were placed around the station.
sleighverb詞源 1/sleɪ/
- 1
To ride or drive a sleigh.
- 2
To transport (cargo, freight) via sleigh.
- Electrification helped farmers, but in addition, the farm routine was greatly simplified because milk itself became the desired commodity instead of cream and butter. Milk trucks traveled to neighborhoods like North Pomfret to pick up cans of milk and haul them to the creamery for processing. The empty cans were returned to the farm when the next load was picked up. This required the farmer to purchase and keep extra milk cans on hand, but that was a small price to pay for convenience. Platforms were erected by the side of the main road through Pomfret so that during the winter farmers could sleigh their milk cans to them for pickup by the milk trucks, which were unable to navigate the infrequently maintained back roads where many farmers lived.
sleighadj詞源 2/sleɪ/
- 1
obsoleteSly.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。