hitch
hitch 英 [hɪtʃ] 美 [hɪtʃ]
n. 故障；钩；猛拉；急推；蹒跚 vt. 搭便车；钩住；套住；猛拉；使结婚 vi. 被钩住；急动；蹒跚；搭便车旅行；结婚
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- A hitch is an obstacle or hindrance. You might be late because of a last minute hitch, like waiting for a family of ducks to cross the road. If things go well, they go off without a hitch.
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- n. 故障；钩；猛拉；急推；蹒跚
- vt. 搭便车；钩住；套住；猛拉；使结婚
- vi. 被钩住；急动；蹒跚；搭便车旅行；结婚
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1. Did they hitch then?
后来他们结婚了吗?
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2. Evidently we have to hitch a passing car.
看来我们得招手搭便车了。
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3. It is a shame to hitch up your trousers before the public.
当着众人的面向上拉起裤子是丢人的行为。
- hitch (n.) 1660s, "a limp or hobble;" 1670s, "an abrupt movement," from hitch (v.). Meaning "a means by which a rope is made fast" is from 1769, nautical. The sense of "obstruction" (usually unforeseen and temporary) is first recorded 1748; military sense of "enlistment" is from 1835.
- hitch (v.) mid-15c., probably from Middle English icchen "to move as with jerks or pauses; to stir" (c. 1200), a word of unknown origin. The connection with icchen might be in notion of "hitching up" pants or boots with a jerking motion. Sense of "become fastened," especially by a hook, first recorded 1570s, originally nautical. Meaning "to marry" is from 1844 (to hitch horses together "get along well," especially of married couples, is from 1837, American English). Short for hitchhike (v.) by 1931. Related: Hitched; hitching. To (figuratively) hitch (one's) wagon to a star is by 1862.
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