Harness

(noun.) stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart.

(noun.) a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute).

(verb.) exploit the power of; 'harness natural forces and resources'.

(verb.) put a harness; 'harness the horse'.

(verb.) control and direct with or as if by reins; 'rein a horse'.

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• Placing one end of my harness strap in his hands I lowered him quickly to the ground below. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Stripping his harness from him I securely bound his hands behind his back, and after similarly fastening his feet tied him to a heavy gun carriage. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Harness-maker's estimate, so much. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Bright the carriage looked, sleek the horses looked, gleaming the harness looked, luscious and lasting the liveries looked. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• For the object of democracy is not to imitate the rhythm of the stars but to harness political power to the nation's need. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The principal business consisted in securing mules, and getting them broken to harness. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• With it and the harness which you may select there will be no more handsomely accoutred warrior in all Zodanga. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• And so I caused Hor Vastus to be harnessed in the metal of a Zodangan soldier and chained in Parthak's cell beside him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Before that time it seemed impossible that explosive gases would ever be harnessed as steam had been and made to do continual successful work in a cylinder and behind a piston. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I saw the pony harnessed myself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• They so harnessed him and drove him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Cutting disks are harnessed to steam motors and are adapted to break up at one operation a wide strip of ground. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The dream has been realised, and the turbine is the apparatus through which the power of the harnessed giant is transmitted. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The sun was now fairly harnessed in the service of man in the new great art of Photography. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The harnesses of the farmer's and labouring man's horses a century ago, when they were fortunate enough to own horses, were of the crudest description. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Many harnesses were so encrusted with gold, platinum, silver and precious stones as to entirely hide the leather beneath. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Now the strength and cheapness of harnesses enable the poor man to equip his horse with a working suit impossible to have been produced a hundred years ago. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I added this saving clause, in the moment of rejecting four richly caparisoned coursers which I had had wild thoughts of harnessing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The horses are harnessing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It had vast potentialities for good and evil--all it wanted was harnessing and directing. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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