Word · Frequency #26575
drays
运货马车
drays is the plural of dray.
核心释义
a low heavy horse-drawn cart without sides, used for hauling goods
- 1.
一种雪橇或滑板。
A kind of sledge or sled.
一种雪橇或滑板。；(载货的)雪橇
用法In use
The driver loaded the empty barrels onto the dray and headed for the warehouse.
用法提示：此处 dray 是名词，意为“运货马车”，作介词 onto 的宾语。
Brewers once used a low, heavy dray to carry beer kegs through city streets.
用法提示：此处 dray 是名词，作动词 used 的宾语，a low, heavy dray 描述其外形。
The two horses strained to pull the fully loaded dray up the hill.
用法提示：此处 dray 是名词，作动词 pull 的宾语，fully loaded 修饰它。
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。
dray sth to/from somewhere
动词 dray 是及物动词，直接接货物，再接 to/from 地点。
相关词与表达Connections
搭配Collocations
- dray horse
- 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。
- dray driver
- 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。
- pull a dray
- 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。
- dray load
- 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。
近义词Synonyms
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
记dray像tray(托盘)：无侧板的低矮马车，活像马拖着大托盘运货。
语境与语域Context & Register
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。
发音与拼写Pronunciation & Spelling
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.
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