musher
noun [ C ] uk/ˈmʌʃ.ər/ us/ˈmʌʃ.ɚ/
赶狗拉雪橇的人
a person who controls the dogs that are pulling a sledge (= an object used for travelling over snow and ice with long, narrow strips of wood or metal under it instead of wheels)
The 1,100-mile race from Anchorage to Nome allows mushers to drop injured, sick or tired dogs. 从安克雷奇到诺姆的1100英里的比赛允许赶雪橇者放下受伤、生病或疲惫的狗。
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- She was shaken by a nasty collision with a musher following behind her, whose sled sped out of control on the sharp slope of Eagle Summit.
- An unusually warm winter left Alaska mushers travelling far and wide to find good conditions to train.
- Once past Unalakleet, mushers face hundreds of miles of trail along the Bering Sea coast.
- Most mushers are happy to have a few dogs with the focus necessary to run at the front.