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by dray
by dray 表示用这种马车运输，dray 前不用冠词。
The beer was moved by dray from the brewery to the pub.
啤酒由运货马车从酿酒厂运到酒吧。
运货马车
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运货马车
a low heavy horse-drawn cart without sides, used for hauling goods
The beer was moved by dray from the brewery to the pub.
啤酒由运货马车从酿酒厂运到酒吧。
一种雪橇或滑板。
A kind of sledge or sled.
The driver loaded the empty barrels onto the dray and headed for the warehouse.
司机把空桶装上运货马车，然后向仓库驶去。
Brewers once used a low, heavy dray to carry beer kegs through city streets.
酿酒商曾经用一辆低矮的重型运货马车在城市的街道上运送啤酒桶。
The two horses strained to pull the fully loaded dray up the hill.
那两匹马费劲地拉着装满货物的运货马车爬上山坡。
by dray 表示用这种马车运输，dray 前不用冠词。
The beer was moved by dray from the brewery to the pub.
啤酒由运货马车从酿酒厂运到酒吧。
动词 dray 是及物动词，直接接货物，再接 to/from 地点。
They drayed the timber from the forest to the mill.
他们用运货马车把木材从森林运到工厂。
这个结构强调车上装载的物品，常用于描述场景。
A dray loaded with coal stood by the warehouse.
一辆载着煤炭的运货马车停在仓库旁。
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运货马
The dray horse trudged slowly up the cobbled street.
运货马在鹅卵石街道上缓慢前行。
运货马车夫
The dray driver loaded the barrels onto the cart.
运货马车夫把木桶装上马车。
拉运货马车
The two sturdy horses pulled the heavy dray.
两匹强壮的马拉着沉重的运货马车。
一车货物
They delivered a dray load of bricks to the building site.
他们把一车砖送到建筑工地。
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记dray像tray(托盘)：无侧板的低矮马车，活像马拖着大托盘运货。
语域：neutral 常见场景：运货、拖运 该词多用于书面或叙述场景，常指一种低矮的无侧板重型马车；日常口语中不常用。
All listed words rhyme with dray as normally pronounced /dreɪ/: they share the final /eɪ/ sound and the -ay spelling pattern (though gray can also be spelled grey). Beware of lookalikes that sound different: dry /draɪ/ and draw /drɔː/ look similar to dray but do not rhyme; dairy /ˈderi/ also begins with d but has a different vowel sound.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.