runner
n. [体育运动]赛跑者; [棒球]跑垒者,[橄榄球]带球者; 逃亡者; 送信人,跑腿者
A runner is a person who runs, especially for sport or pleasure.
...a marathon runner...
马拉松长跑选手
I am a very keen runner and am out training most days.
我非常喜欢跑步,大多数时候都在户外训练。
The runners in a horse race are the horses taking part.
There are 18 runners in the top race of the day.
在当天最高级别的赛马中有18匹马参加。
A drug runner or gun runner is someone who illegally takes drugs or guns into a country.
Someone who is a runner for a particular person or company is employed to take messages, collect money, or do other small tasks for them.
...a bookie's runner.
赌注经纪人的听差
Runners are thin strips of wood or metal underneath something which help it to move smoothly.
...the runners of his sled.
他的雪橇的滑板
On a plant, runners are long shoots that grow from the main stem and put down roots to form a new plant.
...strawberry runners.
草莓长匐茎
A runner is a long narrow mat that is put on a piece of furniture or on the floor.
If someone does a runner, they leave a place in a hurry, for example in order to escape arrest or to avoid paying for something.
At this point, the accountant did a runner — with all my bank statements, expenses and receipts.
这个时候,会计溜了——带走了我所有的银行结算单、资金和收据。
1. someone who imports or exports without paying duties
2. someone who travels on foot by running
3. a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents;
4. a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)
5. a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips
6. a trained athlete who competes in foot races
7. a long narrow carpet
8. device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along
9. fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil
do a runner
(英,非正式)(尤指为躲债或逃离某地而)匆忙离开,急忙逃走
After remaining behind the leading runner for most of the race, Jim suddenly passed him and won.
赛跑中的大部分时间里, 吉姆跑在领先的运动员之后,后来突然超过去,获得了胜利.
If a good runner like you can't catch up with him, how can I?
你跑得那么快还赶不上他, 何况我 呢 ?
The young German runner finished a creditable second.
这名年轻的德国赛跑运动员获得了当之无愧的第二名.
The gun runner has a foot in both camps; he sells arms to both the Arabs and the Israelis.
那个军火走私者脚踏两只船, 同时向阿拉伯人和以色列人出售武器.
I was slowly closing on the runner ahead of me.
我慢慢追上了跑在我前面的人.