dray
dray — 名詞
- draysingular
- draysplural
1. a flat horse cart from earlier times that carried barrels, sacks, and other heav
運貨馬車
舊時載重貨的低平四輪馬車
a flat horse cart from earlier times that carried barrels, sacks, and other heavy loads
At dawn, Tendai loaded flour sacks onto the dray behind the mill.
清晨時，Tendai 在磨坊後方把麵粉袋搬上運貨馬車。
load + goods onto a dray
The old dray carried beer barrels from the yard to the inn.
那輛老舊的運貨馬車把啤酒桶從院子運到旅店。
dray for heavy barrels
Two horses pulled the dray through town while children waved from shop doors.
兩匹馬拉著運貨馬車穿過鎮上，店門口的孩子們不停揮手。
Museum visitors climbed onto the dray to see how goods once moved.
博物館訪客爬上那輛運貨馬車，看看以前貨物是怎麼運送的。
文法句型
load + [goods] onto + a dray
pull + a dray + through/to + [place]
use + a dray + to carry + [load]
用法筆記
Mostly found in historical writing, museum labels, or accounts of older delivery work. It usually refers to a low horse-drawn vehicle used for heavy freight rather than an ordinary small cart.
常見錯誤
dray — 動詞
- draypresent simple I / you / we / they
- drays3rd person singular
- draying-ing form
- drayedpast simple
1. to move goods by putting them on a horse cart and taking them somewhere
用馬車運
用低平貨運馬車載送貨物
to move goods by putting them on a horse cart and taking them somewhere
Workers drayed the beer barrels from the yard to the inn before noon.
工人們在中午前把啤酒桶用馬車運到旅店。
dray + goods + to + place
Before rail lines arrived, farmers drayed wool into town every winter.
鐵路還沒出現以前，農民每到冬天都用馬車把羊毛運進城。
The crew drayed bricks across the muddy lane to the new school.
那群工人把磚塊用馬車運過泥濘小路，送到新學校。
After the bridge broke, traders drayed rice along the river road instead.
橋斷掉後，商人們改沿著河邊道路用馬車運米。
文法句型
dray + [goods] + to + [place]
dray + [load] + through/across + [place]
用法筆記
This verb is mostly seen in historical descriptions of transport. The object is usually heavy goods such as barrels, wool, bricks, or grain. Distinguish it from noun sense 1: here the word names the action, not the vehicle.