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词汇 canter
释义 canter
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈkæn.tər/ us /ˈkæn.t̬ɚ/
If a horse canters, it moves at quite a fast but easy and comfortable speed: (马)小跑,慢跑
The riders cantered round the field a few times.骑手绕着场地小跑了几次。
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Animal (non-human) behaviour
canter
noun[ Cusually singular ]
uk /ˈkæn.tər/ us /ˈkæn.t̬ɚ/
a speed of movement on a horse that is quite fast but easy and comfortable, or a ride on a horse at this speed:
The horses set off at a canter.
We moved along the verge at a brisk canter.
The horse looked relaxed as she went for a gentle canter on the turf.
The Derby winner did a steady canter for seven furlongs.
We'll go to Epsom and have a nice canter round.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Horse riding
barrel racing
blinder
break someone in
bridle
bridle path
capriole
chukka
chukker
curry
girth
high-spirited
horseman
horsewoman
mounted
pony trekking
rein
riderless
saddler
showjumper
whip

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Animal (non-human) behaviour

canter | American Dictionary


canter
verb[ I ]
us/ˈkæn·tər/
(of a horse) to move in a way that is like a slow gallop

Examples of canter


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Canter emphasises that exhalation needs to be positive (1997: 42-4).
By the author's high standards, the concluding chapter is also a rather disappointing routine canter through 'the facts'.
Kinematic comparison of the leading and trailing fore- and hind limbs at the canter.
While the book's scope is impressive, it does occasionally canter rather too quickly through its constituent parts, for example twentieth-century 'branding' is dealt with in only two pages.
Events move at a canter while ideas move at a jog trot and sometimes do not move at all.
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Is this not a thinly disguised canter around the whole course of legal aid?
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Cantering inflation is now beginning to gallop, and a serious disaster in our balance of payments is not impossible.
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Year after year it seems to me to be a one-horse race with the farmers winning in a canter.
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But a description in depth of the country's short-term and medium-term prospects hardly lends itself to a 15-minute canter.
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They will use all the means at their disposal to ensure that we do not get further than a preliminary canter round the course.
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Today is a general canter round the course.
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He says that the smaller conference now proposed will be a "preliminary canter" for the big one.
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He may take a canter round the whole field of criminal law, and nobody can complain if he does.
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Therefore, the whole of that preliminary canter has to some extent been in vain.
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I do not wish to canter across the broad meadow of the reasons why we are introducing this legislation.
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