How crucial money was, exactly as novelists claimed. People married and merdered for it, flattered and threatended, rode bareback, tutored dullards, wore themselves out on the boards. 钱是多么重要,和小说家说的完全一样。人们为它喜结连理,,为它互相残杀,为它阿谀奉承,威胁恫吓,为它甘冒大险,为它自甘下贱,为它粉墨登场,直到精疲力尽。
bareback
[ adv ]
without a saddle
<adv.all> she prefers to ride her horse bareback [ adj ]
riding without a saddle
<adj.all> a bareback rider
Bareback \Bare"back`\ (b[^a]r"b[a^]k`), adv. On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.
Jockey Massimo Coghe rode Benito to victory Saturday in the Palio, a medieval-style bareback race around Siena's main plaza.