1.cart用作动词时意思是“用大车拉”,即把某人或某物放在车上运走。cart也可表示“用手提”。
2.cart主要用作及物动词,后接名词或代词作宾语,有时还可接以形容词充当补足语的复合宾语。

cart off(v.+adv.)
▲cart sb/sth ⇔ off
1.运送,载运 deliver
Please cart off the mountains of rubbish.请用车运走堆积如山的垃圾。
◇ 用于be ～ed结构
We were carted off to the little town.我们被用车送到那个小镇上。
2.(以武力)带走,挟持 take away
The police carted the prisoners off to prison.警察用武力把犯人抓进监狱。
When Bobby wouldn't eat his supper, his mother carted him off to bed.博比不肯吃饭,他妈妈就强行拉他去睡觉。
◇ 用于be ～ed结构
The demonstrators were carted off to jail by the police.示威者被警察强行带走,关进了监狱。

cart round(v.+adv.)
(用手)提,吃力提 hold sth in hands with difficulty
▲cart sth ⇔ round
Do you have to cart that bag round all day?你得整天吃力地提着那个包吗?

用作及物动词
▲S+～+n./pron.
Those are buses to cart the kids to and from school.这些是接送学童的公共汽车。
They are carting the wood.他们正在装运木材。
She carts the kids around with her wherever she goes.她无论走到哪儿,都要把孩子带在身边。

［同义词］ n. barrow, carriage, wagon
［词源］  ＜古挪威语kartr(二轮马车)

1.cart主要指由马等家畜牵引的四轮或两轮运货的“大车”,也可指人推或拉的“手推车”,主要强调车的作用,而不强调车的形式或动力源。
2.cart是可数名词,其复数形式是carts。

get〔put〕 the cart before the horse
本末倒置 reverse the logical order of things, by saying that the result of sth is what caused it
Buying furniture before having a house is really putting the cart before the horse.没有房子先置家具真是本末倒置。
The boy put the cart before the horse by starting off dinner with apple pie.那男孩颠倒了吃饭的正常顺序,他一开始就吃苹果派。
It is wrong to put the cart before the horse.本末倒置是错误的。

in the cart
处于困境或不愉快的境地 be surrounded by difficulty
My wife's behaviour at my office put me in the cart at work.我妻子在我办公室的行为使我在工作中处于困境。

The carts lumber along.大车费力地前进。
The farmer conveyed apples in a cart.这个农民用大车运苹果。
Some farmers now use trucks instead of carts.现在有些农民已经丢掉大车用上了汽车。
He was pushing a cart with difficulty.他费力地推着手推车。