Old English steda "stallion, stud horse," from Proto-Germanic *stodjon (source also of Old Norse stoe), from the same Germanic root as Old English stod (see stud (n.2)). In Middle English, "a great horse" (as distinguished from a palfrey), "a spirited war horse." Obsolete from 16c. except in poetic, rhetorical, or jocular language.
例文
1. John Steed was an arrogant,swarggering young man.
ジョン?スティードは傲慢で傲慢な若者だ。
2.Never is a steed pigsty-born ; nor an evergreen pine potbound.
豚小屋は千里馬を生むのではなく、植木鉢は万年松を育てるのが難しい。
3.A knight rode on his richly caparisoned steed .
派手な装飾を施した馬に乗った騎士。
4.An old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop a thousand li.
老いぼれて栃に伏し、千里を志す。
5.A fiery steed is not trained in a courtyard,nor does a pine grow sturdy in a greenhouse.