cart

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Related topics: Bicycles, carts, horses, Transport, Daily life, Furniture

cart1 /kɑːt $ kɑːrt/ noun [countableC] → kart

1. TTBa vehicle with no roof that is pulled by a horse and used for carrying heavy things 〔运重物的敞篷〕马车 → handcart

2. American EnglishAmETTD a large wire basket on wheels that you use in a supermarket 〔超市里的〕手推车，购物车 SYN British English trolley →4 See picture of 见图 TROLLEY

3. the place on an Internet shopping website where you put things that you wish to buy 〔购物网站的〕购物车

4. American EnglishAmEDHF a small table with wheels, used for moving and serving food and drinks 〔送食物和饮料的〕手推餐车 SYN British English trolley

5. put the cart before the horse to do two things in the wrong order 本末倒置；前后颠倒

Examples from the Corpus

put the cart before the horse• This is putting the cart before the horse.• It seems to me that Mr Topolski is putting the cart before the horse.• This may sound like putting the cart before the horse and being unnecessarily pessimistic.• It is Labour's insistence on putting the cart before the horse which fills me with gloom.

→ upset the apple cart at upset2(5)

Examples from the Corpus

cart• A cart drove very loudly into the yard below.• Pamela Stephenson is upsetting the apple cart with her war against harmful pesticides in our food.• Then the waiter wheeled the dessert cart over to our table.• Petrol is nearly nonexistent too: deliveries are made in dray carts.• As far as we know, nobody ever pulled a drive-by shooting from a golf cart.• Some one almost crashed into her cart.• A passing cart rolled by splattering him with mud and Corbett quietly cursed Burnell for sending him here.• McMenamy stacked the bags on the cart.• The cart moved off along the bumpy road towards the rocky mountains in the distance.

cart2 verb [transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]

1 CARRYto take something somewhere in a cart, truck etc 用车装运

cart something away

Household waste is carted away by the city’s Sanitation Department.

家庭垃圾由城市卫生部门用车运走。

2 informalCARRY to carry something somewhere, especially something that is heavy or difficult to carry 搬运〔笨重物品〕

We carted all the furniture upstairs.

我们把所有的家具都搬上楼去。

3 cart somebody off/away phrasal verbphr v informal to take someone somewhere, especially to prison or hospital 抓走，带走，送走〔尤指进监狱或医院〕

He collapsed and had to be carted off to hospital.

他晕倒了，只好送到医院去。

Examples from the Corpus

cart off/away• Jezrael felt the Company's muscle-men pick her up and cart her away.• Monday night when they carted you away.• They wrapped my feet in foam and then they carted me off.• The cart moved off along the bumpy road towards the rocky mountains in the distance.• A small portion of the scene showing the couple with the cart flaked away and broke on the floor.• Then the cart man went away and shut the door.• Adam was so extreme; they really would cart him off to a padded cell one of these days.• The yeomanry arrived and carted forty-four rioters off to Oxford gaol.

Examples from the Corpus

cart• A burglar carted away all the family's Christmas presents.• Why would they cart away bones?• Household and public rubbish is carted away by the city's relatively efficient Sanitation Department.• The boats came in and were unloaded; and the fish was carted away.• Others had walked a mile to a well and were carting back three large brass pots stacked on their heads.• Madge picked up the box and carted it out to the back yard.• After carting my equipment around the world, it's nice to be working closer to home.• I had to be carted off to hospital, so I didn't manage to complete the work until the new year.• I had to cart water for her.• I'm not going to cart your shopping around all afternoon.

cart something away• Workers carted away several tons of trash.

Origin cart1

(1100-1200) Old Norse kartr

cart1 nouncart2 verb

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