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单词 chariot
释义
Examples from literature
  • Around 2000 BCE the Egyptians started using spokes on their chariot wheels.
  • By 500 BCE, many types of wheeled vehicles were in use, from fast chariots to large, slow carts.
  • Chariot races were an important part of the Greek Olympic Games.
  • The Ancient Greeks and Romans loved watching high-speed chariot races.
  • There were fast chariots to fight in wars, slow carts to carry food and other goods, and comfortable carriages for rich people to get around in.
  • Chariots, drawn by four horses and containing soldiers armed with spears and javelins and archers, were much in use.
  • From one of these chariots alighted several venerable men, their hair whitened with age.
  • His chariot was overturned "with a hideous crash" at such danger to himself, "that he did not believe he should ever hazard himself again in any sort of wheel carriage."
  • So saying, Pluto pulled at the reins, and stopped the chariot right between the tall, massive pillars of the gateway.
  • They walked along the road where once they used to ride in their chariot.

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Here, fragments of a group of polychrome figurines in frit were discovered, representing two male figures, a horse's head and achariot.
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Then, with musicians and attendants, she too boarded herchariot.
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Others were jostling for a chance of pulling thechariot, for this is deemed to be an act of religious merit.
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The dance was halted twice when the chariots passed.
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It seems, therefore, that in the strategies of display of which these tombs testify,chariotscenes were not of importance.
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His chapter on gambling is the best (practically the only) modern account and includes a convincing reconstruction of how to bet on thechariotraces.
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There were presumably catwalks from which performers mounted chariots and cloud machines, but at what heights we can only guess.
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Only two of the amphoroid kraters from funerary contexts showedchariotscenes.
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The most frequent theme, however, is thechariotscene, showing a two-wheeledchariot, usually accompanied by a procession of men (figure 7).
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One of the earliest images of the self was that of achariot.
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One can plausibly sing while flying through the air in a divinechariot.
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A little while after the chariots passed the first time, it began to rain.
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He is put on horses, on chariots, on thrones.
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The king bowed respectfully to the goddess in red as she rode herchariotdrawn by devotees to see the festival.
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It also transformed aspects of the play's content: this was no mythical world where flying chariots could rescue heroes.
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