| 词汇 | hansom-cab |
| 释义 | hansom cab noun[ C ] uk /ˈhæn.səm ˌkæb/ us /ˈhæn.səm ˌkæb/ a two-wheeled vehicle pulled by a horse, used like a taxi in the past: （旧时的）双轮双座马车 She wriggled further into the corner of the hansom cab, and tucked her coat around her. In 1885 you could hail a hansom cab and get to any place in London. Bettmann/GettyImages A hansom cab drew up at the end of the street. Horse-drawn hansom cabs were the forerunner of the motorised taxi though their operation overlapped for many years. Her paternal great-grandfather had a hansom cab and stables business. Carriages & carts brougham buggy carriage carryall cart chaise chuckwagon coupe dray gig horse-drawn horsebox ox-drawn popemobile sedan chair stagecoach surrey trishaw tuktuk wagon Examples of hansom cabhansom cab The poor have suffered for a very long time from having to use the hansomcab. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was as dependent on the horsebus—the hansomcab and the dray—as it was on the passenger and goods trains. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It emanates from the days when the terms "master"and"servant" were commonly used, and when horse and cart or hansomcab were the means of transport. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have driven every sort of carriage from a hansomcab to a four-in-hand for pleasure and hire, both in town and country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would suggest that in this age of sputniks and space travel amateur legislation is as outdated and outmoded as the hansomcab. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The hansomcab had to go, and the taxi cab has taken its place. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many street names are fixed at a height more suitable for the days when a driver was probably driving a hansomcab. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The formal declaration of a conventional war now seems almost as archaic and old-fashioned as the hansomcab. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were more arrogant than the railway promoters prophesying the ruin of the stage coaches, or the motor makers contemplating the doom of the hansomcab. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would only add that if we had had international transport 50 years ago the hansomcab and the omnibus industries would be the biggest industries in the world to-day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Not far from him, the driver of a hansomcab is having trouble with a stubborn horse. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The "cab" of taxi-cab or hansomcab is a shortening of "cabriolet". From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. I have noticed it in connection with hansom cabs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If he had thought the same thing about the manufacture of hansom cabs in the 18th century we would, presumably, still have an industry for the manufacture of hansom cabs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It included a safety device found in hansom cabs to stop passengers from falling out of the vehicle in the event of a sudden halt. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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