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1. Don't put the cart before the horse.

[谚]勿本末倒置。

2. It is too late to shut the stable door after the horse has been stolen.

[谚]失马锁慨，为时已晚。

3. All lay loads on a willing horse.

[谚]好马重负。

4. Better lose the saddle than the horse.

[谚]宁可丢鞍，不可失马。

5. A short horse is soon curried.

[谚]矮马容易刷洗; 小事易办。

6. A kind man tipped me off about the big horse race today.

一位好心人就今天的大型赛马给我提出了有益的建议。

7. An old Air Force war horse is getting a new assignment.

一架空军旧式飞机奉命执行一项新的任务。

8. Normally, men who are not wearing a tie are not admitted to the club, but as you've only come to read the electricity meter that's a horse of a different colour.

一般而言，不戴领带的男子是不让进俱乐部的，不过因为你只是来抄电表的，那就完全是另一回事了。

9. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

不要对礼物吹毛求疵。

10. Henry thinks he is always right and gets on his high horse if anyone dares to contradict him.

亨利认为他总是对的，如果有人敢于反驳他的话，他就摆出一副盛气凌人的架势。

11. He was thrown off his horse.

他从他的马背上摔下来。

12. He fell neck and crop off the horse.

他从马上倒栽葱地摔了下来。

13. He got an injury to his spine when he fell off his horse.

他从马上摔下来，伤了脊梁骨。

14. The senior civil servant they arrested for spying turned out to be a Trojan horse, planted by enemy intelligence twenty years previously.

他们逮捕的那位因进行间谍活动的高级文职人员，原来是20年前敌人情报机构安插的特洛伊木马。

15. He's a bit of a dark horse: he was earning a fortune, but nobody knew.

他可算是藏龙卧虎: 赚大钱，可谁也不知道。

16. He heard the horse's neigh in the distance.

他听到远处马嘶声。

17. He put his shirt on the white horse, but he lost all his money as the white horse failed to become the first.

他将钱都押在那匹白马上，但白马未取得第一，他的钱就全输了。

18. He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

他很有学问，能够用九种语言来给一匹马起名字，可又愚蠢到买了一头母牛来骑。

19. He intended to get in some horse riding in his spare time.

他打算在业余时间安排一些骑马活动。

20. He combed his horse's mane tidy.

他把他的马的鬃毛梳理整齐。

21. He lift up his little son, and mounted him on the horse.

他把小儿子举起来，让他骑在马背上。

22. He put the white horse to the cart.

他把那匹白马套上车。

23. He roped his horse on a nearby tree.

他把马拴到附近的一棵树上。

24. He's flogging a dead horse in trying to persuade people to use canals instead of roads.

他拼命地劝人不要使用公路而去使用运河，真是枉费口舌。

25. He had a tip that the black horse would win the race.

他有个秘密消息说那匹马将在比赛中获胜

26. He galloped the horse along the track.

他沿跑道策马疾驰。

27. He fling himself upon his horse and ride madly off in all directions.

他猛地骑上马背、疯狂地向四面八方奔驰去了。

28. He tethered his horse to a tree.

他用绳子把马拴在树上。

29. He flicked the horse with his whip/flicked his whip at the horse.

他用鞭子轻轻抽马。

30. His horse is of the best breed.

他的马是最好的品种。

31. He put a halter on the horse.

他给马套上了笼头。

32. He saddled up his horse and rode away.

他给马装上鞍子便骑马离去了。

33. He made his horse show his paces.

他让他的马展示其步态。

34. He withdrew his horse from the race.

他让他的马退出了比赛。

35. He jumped onto the horse and galloped in the direction of the temple.

他跳上马，朝寺庙方向飞奔而去。

36. He jumped off the horse and went straight into the hut.

他跳下马，径直朝小屋走去。

37. He quickly mounted (his horse) and rode away.

他迅速上马疾驰而去。

38. He expected Godwin to be elected President but as it happened, he backed the wrong horse.

他预料戈德温将当选总统，事实上他完全估计错了。

39. He mounted the horse and rode off.

他骑上马走了。

40. Having ridden for some time, he put the horse about and headed for home.

他骑了一段时间以后，掉转马头回家去了。

41. He was mounted on a black horse.

他骑着一匹黑色的马。

42. Diesel is the more economical in fuel on a pound per horse power basis.

以一磅对一马力的比率而言，柴油式在燃料上是比较经济的。

43. How much money are you riding on the red horse?

你在那匹红马身上押了多少钱？

44. Can you manage with this horse?

你能驾驭这匹马吗？

45. A vet dispatched the injured horse.

兽医把那匹受伤的马杀死了。

46. The farmer did not wish to sell his fine colt, but when the horse dealer tickled his palm with a few hundred dollars, he consented.

农夫本来不打算卖他的小马，但马贩子将几百无钱赛到他的手中，他便同意了。

47. The farmer harnessed the horse.

农夫给马套上挽具。

48. The beginner should be mounted upon a quiet horse that is light in the mouth.

初学骑马的人应该骑一匹容易驾驭的性情温和的马。

49. Don't ride the high horse.

勿摆架子。

50. Nancy came down off her high horse and make friends with them.

南希放下架子，与他们交起了朋友。

51. The excited horse flung about in the stall.

受惊的马在马厩里乱冲乱踢。

52. The frightened horse galloped away.

受惊的马飞奔而去。

53. The horse responds to the slightest pull on the rein.

只要缰绳稍稍一拉，这匹马就有反应。

54. Jim staked all his money on the black horse.

吉姆把所有的钱都押在那匹黑马上了。

55. Mary wouldn't speak to anyone all afternoon because she couldn't go to the movies, but she got down off her high horse now.

困为不能去看电影，玛丽整个下午都不和别人说话。但是，她现在不生气了。

56. At the end of the joke she gave a horse laugh that could be heard a street away.

在那个笑话结束时，她发出一阵狂笑，一条街外都可听到。

57. The Queen's horse won by a head.

女王的马以一马头之距领先获胜。

58. She sat her horse well.

她善於骑马。

59. She keeps a horse in that enclosure.

她在那个围栏里养了一匹马。

60. She's the willing horse in the office and so gets given most of the work to do.

她是办公室里埋头苦干的人，大部分的工作都交给她去做。

61. Her eyes kept straying to the clock and, a nod being as good as a wink to a blind horse, I said I had an appointment to meet a friend, and left.

她老是用眼睛瞟着钟，明人不用细说，我借口有约会要见一位朋友，便起身告辞了。

62. It will be to his cost if he bets on that horse.

如果他赌在那匹马上，他可就要吃亏了。

63. If the horse had not been held in, he would have cleared the fence.

如果这匹马不受牵制，它就会跳过篱笆。

64. Anna's such a dark horse--I had no idea she'd published a novel.

安娜真叫人看不出来，我没想到她会出版了一本小说。

65. Be careful of that horse it often kicks.

小心那匹马--它常尥蹶子。

66. As Tom was alighting from the horse, his father collided with him.

当汤姆从马上下来的时候，他的爸爸撞上他了。

67. The horse I had backed trailed in last.

我下赌注的那匹马落在後面，跑了个倒数第一。

68. Can't. I have to go and see a man abut a horse, Ask you mother to listen to you.

我不能，我有点事得出去，请你妈妈听你弹吧。

69. The horse that we had chosen began to draw ahead halfway through the race.

我们选的那匹马在赛程到一半的时候开始领先。

70. I can ride a bicycle, and I can drive a car, but I can not ride a horse.

我会骑自行车，而且我会开汽车。但我不会骑马。

71. The horse perked up its head when I shouted.

我吆喝时那马扬起了头。

72. I agreed to take the children to the fair, but I refused to ride on the big dipper no matter how much they tried to persuade me; after all, you can take a horse to water but you cannot make it drink.

我同意带孩子们去游乐场，但无论他们怎样试图说服我，我也拒绝乘坐游乐场惯性车道; 不要逼人做他不愿意做的事。

73. I heard the ladies talk horse.

我听到那些女士们谈论赛马的事。

74. I ventured a small bet on the horse.

我在那匹马上下了一小笔赌注。

75. I was pleased to see how peaceable the horse had become.

我很高兴地看到这匹马变得这么温顺。

76. I bet$30 on the red horse across the board.

我把30美元平均地押在那匹红马的三个得奖机会上。

77. I haven't got a crystal ball so I do not know which horse is going to win the Derby.

我没有掌握预言未来的方法，因此我不知道哪一匹马会赢得大赛马的胜利。

78. I've got no record of this horse's form.

我没有这匹马的情况记录。

79. I bet three pounds on a horse running at twenty to one and won sixty pounds!

我用三镑压在赔率为二十比一的马上，结果赢了六十镑。

80. My little horse must think it queer.

我的小马想必感到奇怪。