trot

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trot1 /trɒt $ trɑːt/ verb (trotted, trotting)

1. [intransitiveI]RUN if a horse trots, it moves fairly quickly with each front leg moving at the same time as the opposite back leg 〔马〕疾走，小跑 → canter, gallop

2 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]RUN if a person or animal trots, they run fairly slowly, taking short regular steps 碎步急行；小跑

She came trotting down the steps from the library.

她从图书馆出来，小跑着下台阶。

► see thesaurus at run

3 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] informalGO to walk or go somewhere, especially fairly quickly 〔尤指较快地〕走，去

He trotted off and came back a couple of minutes later, holding a parcel.

他跑掉了，几分钟以后又拿着一个包裹回来了。

4 trot something ↔ out phrasal verbphr v informal SAY/STATEto give opinions, excuses, reasons etc that you have used too many times and that do not seem sincere 重复，翻出〔老一套的观点、借口、理由等〕

Steve trotted out the same old excuses.

史蒂夫又搬出那些老套的借口。

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trot out• It always annoys me so much the way you girls trot it out like you're saying something so astute and revealing.• When you first trot these out, you may find that to your ears they sound artificial and contrived.

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trot• Dorothy arrived, with a little dog trotting along behind her.• I looked up, and saw a dog trotting along the sidewalk toward me.• An otherwise respectable middle-aged woman pressed the thing to her bosom and trotted back to her seat, aglow.• We must have had 20 groups of costumed revelers trot by us up on stage.• He moved fast, at times trotting, conscious of the approaching dark.• He locked the door and trotted down the stairs to my car.• It begins with Septimus Honeydew waking up at three in the morning and trotting off to Mum and Dad's room.• I'm going to trot over to the post office.• She whinnied and trotted placidly back.• A horse whinnied and reared; the troop trotted quickly out of the inn yard towards the high road.• She trotted softly through the passageway to the gate.• These newcomers trotted through the streets-nobody seemed to walk anymore-waving papers, shouting at the top of their lungs.

Related topics: Horses, Newspapers, printing, publishing

trot2 noun

1 horse 马

a) [singular]DSHRUN the movement of a horse at trotting speed 小跑

Our horses slowed to a trot.

我们的马减速慢跑。

b) [countableC]DSH a ride on a horse at trotting speed 骑马小跑

2 on the trot British EnglishBrE informal

a) SERIESone directly following another 连续地，一个接一个地

The class has been cancelled three weeks on the trot now.

到现在，这门课程已连续三周被取消。

b) BUSY/HAVE A LOT TO DObusy doing something 忙忙碌碌，马不停蹄地忙 SYN on the go

I’ve been on the trot all day.

我一整天都在忙个不停。

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on the trot• They may well crack altogether if Blackburn could win 3 or 4 games on the trot.• What about the 10 superb games he had on the trot recently?• Ballet Imaginaire sold out three nights on the trot in Lincoln.• In those days all the cutters were laid up on the trot piles in the river Hamble during the winter months.• But Schuey was in top form and the triple world beater always looked odds-on to score his fifth win on the trot.• David Rennie earned Birmingham their fourth win on the trot with his first goal for the club.• We need to catch up 4 points. 4 wins on the trot will put us on course.

3 slow run 慢跑 [singular]RUN a fairly slow way of running in which you take short regular steps 慢跑，小步跑

She broke into a trot (=started running slowly) and hurried on ahead of us.

她突然小跑起来，赶到我们前头。

4. students’ answers 学生的答案 [countableC] American EnglishAmETCN a book of notes or answers used by students, especially to cheat in tests 〔尤用于学生作弊的〕笔记，答案 SYN crib

5. the trots informal diarrhoea 腹泻，拉稀

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the trots• The boozy cook got the trots after a late night meal of undercooked seafood washed down by lashings of wine.• He had arrived from Minneapolis in a linen suit and had a bad case of the trots.• After all, one case of the trots hardly spells disaster.

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trot• Washington shuffles back to his bucket in almost a trot.• Without waiting to find out what it meant, she broke into a trot and hurried on round the next corner.• With a click, the horse started into a trot.• I start out at a brisk trot.• He had arrived from Minneapolis in a linen suit and had a bad case of the trots.• They may well crack altogether if Blackburn could win 3 or 4 games on the trot.• What about the 10 superb games he had on the trot recently?• But Schuey was in top form and the triple world beater always looked odds-on to score his fifth win on the trot.

broke into a trot• I walked briskly one block over to Cabana, the wide boulevard that parallels the beach, and broke into a trot.• He broke into a trot and the three surprised young men did likewise, aware that something must have gone wrong.• He broke into a trot as he headed up the path to the staff-cabins.• Without waiting to find out what it meant, she broke into a trot and hurried on round the next corner.• The town was very quiet and once on land, they broke into a trot.• They broke into a trot and found Mary standing in the middle of a thicket.• Looking forward to Joyce he too broke into a trot.• As soon as we saw the ice-cream truck, we broke into a trot.

Trotn noun infml

n1.an insulting word for a Trotskyite

Origin trot1

(1300-1400) Old French troter

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