| 词汇 | piggyback |
| 释义 | piggyback noun[ C ] uk /ˈpɪɡ.i.bæk/ us /ˈpɪɡ.i.bæk/(alsopiggyback ride) a ride on someone's back with your arms round the person's neck and your legs round their waist: 背，驮 I gave her a piggyback ride.我背着她。 Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision/GettyImages Children's games blind man's buff card game cold conker deck of cards dingbat double Dutch dress-up box dressing-up box hide-and-seek hopscotch jack keep (someone/something) away magnet fishing pack of cards painting painting by numbersidiom piggy in the middle ringtoss warm piggyback adverb uk /ˈpɪɡ.i.bæk/ us /ˈpɪɡ.i.bæk/ on someone's back, or on the back of something: 在（某人的）背上;在（某物的）顶上 Martha rode piggyback on her dad.玛莎骑在她爸爸的背上。 Dom carried his daughter piggyback when she got too tired to walk.女儿累得走不动时，多姆就背着她走。 Children's games blind man's buff card game cold conker deck of cards dingbat double Dutch dress-up box dressing-up box hide-and-seek hopscotch jack keep (someone/something) away magnet fishing pack of cards painting painting by numbersidiom piggy in the middle ringtoss warm piggyback verb[ I ] uk /ˈpɪɡ.i.bæk/ us /ˈpɪɡ.i.bæk/ to use something that someone else has made or done in order to get an advantage: 沾光，搭便车 Everyone wants to piggyback on the phenomenal success of the TV series.每个人都想借这部电视连续剧大获成功的机会沾点光。 Advantage and disadvantage ace an ace up your sleeveidiom attraction be well in thereidiom be/stay/keep one jump aheadidiom have it both waysidiom have something on your sideidiom have the inside trackidiom have the odds/cards stacked against youidiom head start leg lock milk privileged profit from something racing start saving grace scent bloodidiom stick the best of both worldsidiom piggyback | American Dictionarypiggyback adjective, adverb[ not gradable ] us/ˈpɪɡ·iˌbæk/ on someone’s back: Uncle Sean loves to give Tyler piggyback rides. piggyback | Business Englishpiggyback verb[ I ] uk /ˈpɪɡibæk/us to use something that already exists or has already been done successfully to do something else quickly or effectively: piggyback on/off/onto sthThe mobile phone company managed to break into European markets by piggybacking off existing networks. piggyback adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˈpɪɡibæk/us (alsopiggy-back) used to describe something that piggybacks off another successful or effective thing: piggyback arrangements/advertising/loansMortgage customers were attracted by offers such as piggyback loans to pay for deposits. Examples of piggybackpiggyback Therefore, he concludes, genes for schizophrenia piggyback on the neuroregulatory genes such that if both are present, then both are inherited. To overcome some of the problems of piggyback economic trials, the bootstrapping technique is used to simulate repeated trials. However, it would need to 'piggyback' (free-ride?) on existing state systems of payroll. Riding piggyback on this development, humanism turned into an international force. A second gene adjacent to the first gene may piggyback on it. The talk nowadays is of giving priority to rail over road transport and going in for piggybacking. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Finally, it would mean undertaking to develop 'piggybacking' and making immediate use of the existing transverse lines, which are under-used. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Although there are many different techniques for conducting economic analyses of medical interventions, a common approach is to collect data on outcomes and costs along clinical trials (piggyback studies). We examined with great interest the proposals aimed at developing alternative, non-polluting means of transport such as piggyback transport. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Secondly, and this is a very important aspect, promoting rail transport and developing piggyback transport systems. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English When will there be a resolution to prioritise rail and piggyback transport, and moreover, one for other choices relating to national and regional development? From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English A number of people, particularly anti-fraud officers, have suggested that "piggybacking" is much more substantial than we think. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In order to get a piece of the action for themselves, some of them copied, or piggybacked, his trades for their own accounts. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. By 1955, an additional 25 railroads had begun some form of piggy-back trailer service. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He himself piggybacked the trades for his own benefit, and the volume led one of his colleagues to get suspicious. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of piggyback 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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