Ch'ang-tsu said, " Who is he that holds the reins in the carriage there? "

“夫执舆者为谁？”

He pulled up a lit-tle, but I just held the rein and he wasn't frightened at all.

他吓了一小跳，可是我只管抓着缰绳，他就一点儿也不怕了。

Jockeys control their horses by holding the reins, the leather bands attached to a bar in the horses' mouths.

骑师通过握住缰绳来控制他们的马，缰绳是连接在马嘴处系在一根棒子上的皮带。

One backbencher criticises decisions “handed down from on high” by the “four or six” people who hold the reins of power.

其中，某位后座议员批评称，政府决策都是由“四名或六名”掌权人“上意下达”。

His father said, " Hold the rein just as I have told you and drive to the end of our pasture and back."

他父亲说，像我跟你说的那样，抓紧缰绳，驾到我们牧场的另一端，再折返回来。

And after that halt they drove on again, and Inger sat up, holding the reins.

停了下来之后， 他们又继续前行， 英格拉着缰绳坐了起来。

Then one night Smith drove some ladies and gentlemen home from a party and was so drunk that he could not hold the reins.

一天晚上，史密斯送一些女士和先生们从舞会回家，可他醉得不成样子，连缰绳都抓不住了。

She used to practice mounting, holding the reins, and sitting straight on an old saddle in a tree.

她过去常常练习骑马，握着缰绳，笔直地坐在树上的旧马鞍上。

Every day, day after day, we followed you along the trail... And you let me hold the reins.

每一天，日复一日，我们沿着小路跟随你… … 而你让我掌控缰绳。

" Hold the reins, " said Rhett shortly, swinging to the ground and tossing the bridle to Uncle Peter. They saw his heavy shoulders towering above the crowd as he went through, brutally pushing and shoving.

人们看见他耸着一对高出众人之上的肩膀，拼命推搡着从身边挤过。