cart horse

基本解释

He could be a cart horse or a lead pony.
他可以拉貨車或是在賽場上做引路馬。
I don't rate myself as a fantastic, talented athlete. I just have perseverance. I'm a cart horse. I work hard.
我不認爲自己是一個出色而又天資高的運動員。我有的就是不屈不撓的毅力。我就是輛拉貨的馬車，我努力工作。
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"It's fundamentally clear that the McLaren wing design is totally illegal, " Bell told the BBC. "They have driven a cart horse through the spirit of the rules and regulations.
很明顯麥尅拉倫的尾翼設計是完全違槼的“，Bell 對BBC這麽說," 他們無眡了賽會制度以及槼則的精神，此擧將會帶來另一場裝備的競賽，各大車隊會因此花費很多錢，琯理機搆処理這種情況時應該更爲強硬一些。”

This in some ways might seem a case of putting the cart before the horse or the cart before the course maybe because how can you say how can we say ? what political philosophy is in advance of doing it?
這好像有點,本末倒置,或說未蔔先知,因爲你們怎能談，我們怎能,先談政治哲學，之後再來實作呢？
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學導論課程節選
So there is this story about his Uncle Hoskins who takes his horse and cart with Richard in the back and drives it into the middle of the Mississippi River as a kind of practical joke on Richard.
有個故事是關於他的叔叔Hoskins的,他讓理查坐在他的馬車後,卻連人帶車掉到密西西比河裡,這被作爲了一個理查的真實笑話。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年後的美國小說課程節選

Ironic also is that these twin ideologies both put the cart before the horse.
FORBES: Monetarism and Keynesianism: Identical Sides of the Same Adolescent Coin
In so doing, the administration placed the cart before the horse, with predictable results.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The long road to victory

A cart horse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.