cart
要点二輪車
意味
- (1頭立ての)二輪車,荷馬車,荷車
- 手押し車
- …を積んで運ぶ
- (苦労して)〈物〉をかかえて運ぶ
- 《話》…を引きずっていく《+名+off,+off+名》
例文
Some lawn equipment is loaded into the jerry-built cart.
芝刈り機が簡素な作りの荷車に積んである。
Don't you think you're putting the cart before the horse?
あなたの言っていることは本末転倒だと思わないかい？
Don't put the cart before the horse.
本末を転倒するな。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English cart, kart, from Old Norse kartr (“wagon; cart”), merged with native Old English cræt (“a chariot; cart”), from Proto-Germanic *krattaz, *krattijô, *kradō, from Proto-Indo-European *gret- (“tracery; wattle; cradle; cage; basket”), from *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with West Frisian kret (“wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), Dutch krat, kret (“crate; wheelbarrow for hauling dung”), German Krätze (“basket; pannier”). Wider cognates include Sanskrit ग्रन्थ (grantha, “a binding”).
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