Old English steda "stallion, stud horse," from Proto-Germanic *stodjon (source also of Old Norse stoe), from the same Germanic root as Old English stod (see stud (n.2)). In Middle English, "a great horse" (as distinguished from a palfrey), "a spirited war horse." Obsolete from 16c. except in poetic, rhetorical, or jocular language.
雙語例句
1. John Steed was an arrogant, swaggering young man.
約翰·斯蒂德是一個傲慢狂妄的年輕人。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Never is a steed pigsty - born ; nor an evergreen pine potbound.
豬圈豈生千里馬,花盆難養(yǎng)萬年松.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. A knight rode on his richly caparisoned steed.
一個騎士騎在裝飾華麗的馬上.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. An old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop a thousand li.
老驥伏櫪,志在千里.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. A fiery steed is not trained in a courtyard, nor does a pine grow sturdy in a greenhouse.