hobbyhorse 英 ['hɒbɪhɔːs]  

hobbyhorse

hobbyhorse  英 ['hɒbɪhɔːs]

n. 木马;竹马;摇动木马 

名词复数:hobbyhorses 

This system is a hobbyhorse procedure, but we do the beneficial thing with it. 本系统属于木马程序,但我们用它来做有益的事。
Goering was a dissolute and often wanted to sit on the hobbyhorse to get his haircuts. 戈林没大没小,经常想坐在摇动木马上理发,这让纳粹统帅部觉得面上无光,却拿他没办法。

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  • n. 木马;竹马;摇动木马
  • 1. This system is a hobbyhorse procedure, but we do the beneficial thing with it.

    本系统属于木马程序,但我们用它来做有益的事。

  • 2. Goering was a dissolute and often wanted to sit on the hobbyhorse to get his haircuts.

    戈林没大没小,经常想坐在摇动木马上理发,这让纳粹统帅部觉得面上无光,却拿他没办法。

  • 3. Later, much to his dismay, it became a favorite hobbyhorse of the anti-globalization left.

    最令他沮丧的是,后来这种说法竟成了受反对全球化左派人士欢迎的旋转木马。

  • hobbyhorse (n.) also hobby-horse, 1550s, "mock horse used in the morris dance;" 1580s, "child's toy riding horse," from hobby (n.) + horse (n.). Transferred sense of "favorite pastime or avocation" first recorded 1670s (shortened to hobby by 1816). The connecting notion being "activity that doesn't go anywhere."
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