gallop
verbVerb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they gallop | |
he / she / it gallops | |
past simple gallopped | |
past participle gallopped | |
past simple galloped | |
past participle galloped | |
-ing form gallopping | |
-ing form galloping |
- [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.)
when a horse or similar animal gallops, it moves very fast and each stride includes a stage when all four feet are off the ground together (馬等)飛奔,奔馳,疾馳 The terrified horse galloped off. 受驚的馬飛奔而去。 The ponies galloped along the sand. 小馬在沙灘上疾馳。 The colt galloped madly around the pen. 小馬在圍欄周圍瘋狂地奔跑。
- [intransitive, transitive]
to ride a horse very fast, usually at a gallop 騎馬奔馳;使(馬)飛奔 - (+ adv./prep.)
Jo galloped across the field towards him. 喬騎馬穿過田野向他奔去。 - gallop something (+ adv./prep.)
He galloped his horse home. 他騎着馬飛奔回家。
Extra ExamplesSeb came galloping into the camp. 賽布飛奔進營地。 The cavalry galloped past in a cloud of dust. 騎兵絕塵而去。
- (+ adv./prep.)
- [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) (informal)
(of a person )人 to run very quickly synonym charge飛跑;奔跑
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from Old French galop (noun), galoper, variants of Old Northern French walop, waloper, perhaps from a Germanic phrase meaning ‘run well’, from the bases of well ‘good’ and leap.