名詞 canter:

1. a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop
   同義詞：lope

動(dòng)詞 canter:

1. ride at a canter
2. go at a canter, of horses
3. ride at a cantering pace

1. A natural three-beat gait of a horse, faster than a canter, in which all four feet are off the ground at the same time during each stride.
   疾馳，飛奔馬的自然的三步跑法，比慢跑快，在每次邁步時(shí)馬的四蹄都同時(shí)離開(kāi)地面
2. We cantered our horses for several miles.
   我們騎著馬慢跑了幾英里。

can.ter

n.（名詞）
A smooth gait, especially of a horse, that is slower than a gallop but faster than a trot.
慢跑：（尤其是馬的）一陣平穩(wěn)的慢跑，比疾跑慢而比快走快
v.（動(dòng)詞）
can.tered,can.ter.ing,can.ters
v.intr.（不及物動(dòng)詞）
To ride a horse at a canter.
騎馬慢跑
To go or move at a canter.
慢跑：以慢跑前去或移動(dòng)
v.tr.（及物動(dòng)詞）
To cause (a horse) to go at a canter.
使（一匹馬）慢跑

來(lái)源：
Ultimately from phrases such as Canterbury gallop
最終源自片語(yǔ)，如 Canterbury gallop
after Canterbury [England, toward which pilgrims rode at an easy pace]
源自 Canterbury[英國(guó)的一個(gè)地方，朝圣者以舒緩的速度騎馬去該地]

<注釋>Most of those who have majored in English literature,and many more besides,know that Chaucer`sCanterbury Tales were told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury to visit the shrine of England`s famous martyr Thomas à Becket.Many pilgrims other than Chaucer`s visited Canterbury on horse,and phrases such asCanterbury gallop, Canterbury pace, and Canterbury trot described the easy gait at which they rode to their destination. The first recorded instance of one of these phrases,Canterbury pace, is found in a work published before '3'. However, in a work written in '3 we find a shortened form,the nounCanterbury, meaning .a canter,. and later, in '73,the verbCanterbury, meaning .to canter.. This verb, or perhaps the noun,was further shortened, giving us the verbcanter, first recorded in 70',and the nouncanter, first recorded in 755.
專業(yè)是英語(yǔ)文學(xué)史的絕大多數(shù)人，還有許多其他的人，都知道喬叟的 坎特伯雷故事集 是由一群朝圣者在坎特伯雷的路上講述的， 他們?nèi)ツ抢锸菫榱苏把鲇⒏裉m著名的殉道士托馬斯· 貝科特的神殿。除了喬叟筆下的這些朝圣者外的許多其他朝圣者也騎著馬前去。一些短語(yǔ)，例如Canterbury gallop，Canterbury pace 和 Canterbury trot 描述了這些朝圣者在騎往他們的目的地時(shí)的緩和步態(tài)。 這些短語(yǔ)最早見(jiàn)于記錄的例子Canterbury pace 發(fā)現(xiàn)于'3'年之前出版的一部著作中。 然而，在寫于'3年的一部著作中我們找到了一個(gè)縮略的形式，名詞Canterbuty， 意即.慢跑.； 后來(lái)在'73年，又有了動(dòng)詞Canterbury, 意為.慢跑。. 這一動(dòng)詞，或者也許是這個(gè)名詞，后來(lái)又被進(jìn)一步縮寫成canter, 該動(dòng)詞最早被記錄于70'年，而名詞canter 則被最早記錄于755年