one-horse

英 [wʌn hɔːs]

美 [wʌn hɔːrs]

adj.  (城镇)极小的，闭塞落后的; (比赛)一骑绝尘的，胜负分明的

柯林斯词典

• ADJ （城镇）极小的，穷乡僻壤的，闭塞落后的
  If someone describes a town as aone-horsetown, they mean it is very small, dull, and old-fashioned.
  1. Would you want to live in a small, one-horse town for your whole life?
     你想在一个闭塞落后的小镇上过一辈子吗？
• ADJ （比赛）胜负分明的
  If a contest is described as aone-horserace, it is thought that one person or thing will obviously win it.
  1. He described the referendum as a one-horse race...
     他称这次全民公决是一场胜负分明的比赛。
  2. Last season looked to be a one-horse race for much of the time, with the reigning champions coasting to an 11-point lead.
     上一赛季大部分时间都毫无悬念，卫冕冠军轻而易举便取得了11分的领先优势。

英英释义

adj

• small and remote and insignificant
  1. a jerkwater college
  2. passed a series of poky little one-horse towns
  Synonym:jerkwaterpokeypoky

双语例句

• Gordon is leaving this one-horse town.
  戈登要离开这个（偏僻简陋的）村小镇。
• The championship is looking increasingly lide a one-horse race.
  谁是冠军得主看来越来越明朗了。
• Oh! What fun it is to ride in a one-horse o-pen sleigh!
  噢！这是多么有趣，在单马开篷雪橇上！
• Last season looked to be a one-horse race for much of the time, with the reigning champions coasting to an 11-point lead.
  上一赛季大部分时间都毫无悬念，卫冕冠军轻而易举便取得了11分的领先优势。
• That experience, never fun, is far less wrenching in a city than in a one-horse town.
  这种经历尽管从来都不是乐趣，但在城市，它所带来的痛苦比偏僻的小镇要少得多。
• In a one-horse open sleigh! hey!
  在一匹马拉的无蓬雪橇中！嘿！
• A little one-horse town miles from anywhere.
  一座偏僻的小镇。
• In a one-horse open sleigh.
  “只马无蓬”的雪橇。
• The city was a gray, drab, one-horse town where the main means of transportation was the bicycle.
  那时这个城市是一个灰色、乏味、设施简陋的城市，主要交通工具是自行车。
• I couldn't understand why a man who had always been so fond of the social scene should suddenly want to bury himself alive in a one-horse village at the back of no where.
  我不理解，为什么一位原先那么喜欢社交的人竟会突然隐居到偏僻的小村庄。