We did six or eight hours in the saddle every day.
我们每天有六或八个小时骑在马背上。
b)POWERin a position in which you have power or authority 在位,掌权
He always has to be in the saddle, controlling everything.
他总是一定要掌握大权,控制一切。
Examples from the Corpus
in the saddle• Already in the saddle for some time, Rosecrans would spend the day there, a striking picture of courageousleadership.• Ninety minutes later they were all back in the saddle and drawing their first covert as if the season had just begun.• Instinctively he rolledin the saddle and felt the white-hotstab of pain as something sharpscored a line across his shoulders.• With Riders in the Skyin the saddle, you can depend on superbmusicianship and sublimevocals.• Somehow, she stayed in the saddle.• It was our first time in the saddle and it had daughter, 11, champing at the bit for more.• The moment Carey was confident that Elizabeth had breathed her last he was in the saddle, racing for the Border.• Sheridan was in the saddle, and with his commandspurring on after the enemy.
4.saddle of lamb/hare/venisona large joint of meat taken from the middle of the animal’s back 羔羊/野兔/鹿的脊肉
saddle• The horse was willing, and allowed the man to place bridle and saddle upon him.• Ringlero has never owned his own saddle.• At the last second, he jumped from the saddle and swung on the trailerroof as the horse went in.• She had seen them on their expensive horses, swooping across country, confident in the saddle.• Somehow, she stayed in the saddle.• Hold the front of the saddle if you like.• Kelly's eyes flicked from the body on the ground to the horse, trampling the saddle beneath its unfeelinghoofs.• The road crawledupward toward the place where the saddleemptied into sky.
2saddle upphrasal verbphr vDSHto put a saddle on a horse 给〔马〕装鞍
saddle something ↔ up
He was in the stable, saddling up his horse.
他在马廐里,给马装鞍。
3saddle somebody with somethingphrasal verbphr vRESPONSIBLEto make someone have a job or problem that is difficult or boring and that they do not want 使承担〔苦差事〕
I’ve been saddled with organizing the whole party!