trot /ˈtrɑt/
快步(vi.)快步走,小跑步走(vt.)使小跑
Trot v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Trotting.]
1. To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.
2. Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
He that rises late must trot all day, and will scarcely overtake his business at night. --Franklin.
Trot, v. t. To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
To trot out, to lead or bring out, as a horse, to show his paces; hence, to bring forward, as for exhibition. [Slang.]
Trot, n.
1. The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time. “The limbs move diagonally in pairs in the trot.”
2. Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.
3. One who trots; a child; a woman.
An old trot with ne'er a tooth. --Shak.
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trot
n 1: a slow pace of running [syn: jog, lope]
2: radicals who support Trotsky's theory that socialism must be
established throughout the world by continuing revolution
[syn: Trotskyite, Trotskyist]
3: a literal translation used in studying a foreign language
(often used illicitly) [syn: pony, crib]
4: a gait faster than a walk; diagonally opposite legs strike
the ground together
v 1: run at a moderately swift pace [syn: jog, clip]
2: ride at a trot
3: cause to trot; "She trotted the horse home"
[also: trotting, trotted]