"Public interest in horse-racing in New York state has simply shrivelled up," says Bennett Liebman, who heads a racing think-tank at Albany Law School.
奥巴尼法律学院一家赛马研究所的负责人Bennett Liebman说:“在纽约州,公众对于赛马的兴趣已经减退。”
Other common forms of synecdoche include two concentric circles or triangles (used as eyes in horse and bison paintings), ibex horns and the hump of a mammoth.
其他普通的提喻形式包括两个同心圆或者三角形(在壁画上马和犀牛的眼睛里也有使用),野生山羊的羊角和长毛象弓起的背部。
Squat, homely, dwarfed by the stately oaks and poplars nearby and unnoticed by the tourists passing in horse-drawn carriages, it's a tree that only birds and nut-hungry squirrels could love.
它矮小平凡,旁边高大笔直的橡树和杨树让它相形见绌;坐着马车从它身边经过的游客都不会瞅它一眼,可能只有鸟儿和想吃松子的松鼠会喜欢它。
Their horse romped home in the 2 o'clock race.
他们的马在两点钟的比赛中轻而易举地获得了胜利。
He injured his ribs in a tumble from his horse.
他从马上摔下来伤了肋骨。
Which horse do you fancy in the next race?
下一轮赛马你认为哪匹马会赢?
Racegoers will be given a number which will correspond to a horse running in a race.
观看赛马的观众将领到一个与参赛马匹相对应的号码。
The horse was almost pure white in colour.
那匹马几乎是纯白色。
As a rough guide, a horse needs 2.5 percent of its body weight in food every day.
作为一个大致的标准,一匹马每天需要相当于它体重2.5%的食物。
Their horse came third in the race last year.
他们的马在去年的比赛中获得了第三名。
Rupert has written about this journey to help his son in his book Horse Boy, and he has produced a documentary of the same name.
为了帮助儿子,鲁伯特在他的书《马男孩》中记录了这段旅程,还制作了一部同名纪录片。
Without stirrups horse and rider are, in terms of force, separate entities; lances can be used from horseback, but only by throwing or stabbing, and mounted warriors gain only height and mobility.
没有马镫,马和骑手在力量上是独立的实体;长枪可以从马背上使用,但只能通过投掷或刺杀,骑兵只能获得高度和机动性。
This is particularly true of the horse pastoralism that emerged in the Inner Eurasian steppes, for this was the most mobile of all major forms of pastoralism.
在欧亚大陆内部大草原上出现的马的游牧主义尤其如此,因为它是所有主要游牧形式中最具流动性的。
That day when he was working in the field, the shocked horse ran past him.
那天,他在田里干活时,那匹受惊的马从他身边跑过。
The spurs cause blunt trauma to the shoulders which never have time to heal properly before the horse is ridden and spurred in another rodeo.
马刺造成肩膀的钝伤,这些伤从来都没有时间痊愈,因为马会被在另一场竞技秀中再次被骑和刺。
I will give you some land and the old house in the back of the ranch if you keep the horse there.
如果你让这匹马在那儿,我将把一些土地和牧场后边的那座老房子给你。
The sea horse is a small fish. It likes living in warm water. A sea horse always stands up in the water when it swims.
海马是一种很小的鱼类,它喜欢生活在温暖的水域,当它在水里游的时候它总是站立的姿势。
A horse and a hen are in a pen.
围栏里有一匹马和一只鸡。
There is a guy in a bunch of armor on a horse.
有一个穿着盔甲的人骑在马上。
The horse starts out in a straight line and then it hops off on a diagonal.
马从一条直线出发,然后沿着对角线跳跃。
The Mole was busy trying to quiet the horse, which he succeeded in doing after a time.
鼹鼠莫尔忙着让马安静下来,过了一会儿,他成功了。
Would you want to live in a small, one-horse town for your whole life?
你想在一个闭塞落后的小镇上过一辈子吗?
Four horse racing tracks operate in Pennsylvania.
4个赛马跑道运营在宾西法尼亚。
我的马跑了最后一名。
She walked the horse round in a circle.
她牵着马兜圈子。
She was killed in a fall from a horse.
她从马背上掉下来摔死了。
Ow! I just got a charley horse in my leg.
哎唷!我的腿抽筋了。
In the garden, the leaves of the horse chestnut had already fallen.
园子里的七叶树已经落叶了。
Round a bend in the canal came plodding a solitary horse, stooping forward as if in anxious thought.
在水渠的一个拐弯处,一匹孤独的马拖着沉重的步子走过来,它向前弯着腰,仿佛心事很重。
Round a bend in the canal came plodding a solitary horse, stooping forward as if in anxious thought.
在水渠的一个拐弯处,一匹孤独的马拖着沉重的步子走过来,它向前弯着腰,仿佛心事很重。
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