:a vehicle with four wheels that is used for carrying heavy loads or passengers and that is usually pulled by animals (such as horses)四轮马车;(由动物拉的)四轮载重车
Pioneers crossed the American Midwest in wagons.开拓者们乘着四轮马车穿越了美国中西部。
:to gather a group of people together in order to protect them from being attacked(集结人马)严阵以待 — usually used figuratively通常用作比喻
Reporters tend to circle the wagons [=tend to join together to defend themselves] whenever the media are attacked for bias.一旦有媒体因为偏见受到围攻,记者们就会集结起来,严阵以待。
hitch your wagon to
chiefly US, informal
:to rely on (someone or something) for success依靠…而获取成功;借…的东风
The team has hitched its wagon to its star pitcher.球队将成功的希望寄托在本队的明星投手身上。
on/off the wagon
informal
◊ A person who is on the wagon has stopped drinking alcohol.戒酒
He has been on the wagon since his child was born.孩子出生后他就戒了酒。
◊ A person who had stopped drinking alcohol but has started again has fallen off the wagon.开酒戒;又喝起酒来
After a year of sobriety, she fell off the wagon.戒了一年酒之后,她又开始喝了起来。
Noun Pioneers crossed the American Midwest in wagons. He pulled his stuffed animals around in a little red wagon.
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Other outdoor pursuits at the patch include a scavenger hunt in a cornfield, hay wagon rides and a petting zoo. Jay Jones, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2022 Other activities: Corn maze, hayrides, wagon rides and farm animals for viewing. Rachel Fradette, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Sep. 2022 Weekend passes also include wagon rides and access to food trucks, vendors, musical performances and encounters with farm animals. Susan Soldavin, Baltimore Sun, 15 Aug. 2022 Enjoy access to a 5-acre sunflower field with wagon rides, photo opportunities, flower picking and 3 acres of playground and barnyard animals, plus a straw mountain and a tire mountain through Aug. 14. Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 5 Aug. 2022 That nearly head-on crash forever changed the then-spiral-shaped galaxy, giving it a new shape and structure resembling a wagon wheel. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022 Its wagon-wheel-esque appearance is the aftermath of a collision between a large spiral galaxy and a smaller galaxy that is not pictured. Julia Musto, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2022 In the Cartwheel galaxy, which looks a bit like a wagon wheel, a colorful ring surrounds an even brighter inner ring -- both of which expand away from the heart of the collision, as depicted in the Webb image. Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2 Aug. 2022 The Cartwheel Galaxy gets its name thanks to its insane appearance, which looks similar to a wagon wheel. Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Aug. 2022
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Chris Bobek, who lives a couple of blocks south of Harrer, pulled daughter Sophie, 3, in a classic fire-red Radio Flyer wagon up to the complex’s main entrance. George Castle, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2022 Other towns have repeatedly fled rivers – Niobrara, Nebraska, hauled its houses by horse and wagon away from flooding in the Missouri River in 1881 and moved again in 1971. Doug Struck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 July 2021 The farm's dozens of other attractions, from a train and giant jumping pillows to wagon rides to a pumpkin patch, give it almost amusement-park status. Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2017 See More