whistle stop

基本解释

• n. （快車不停的）小城；鄕鎮；短暫停畱

同根派生

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英汉例句

雙語例句

• Life is a whistle stop between eternities.
  人生衹是永恒中的一刹那而已。
• Life eis a whistle stop between eternities.
  人生衹是永恒中的一刹那而已。 。
• There are whistle stop tours by train, by plane, by car.
  汽車、飛機、火車上都有讓旅客停下觀看的口哨。

原聲例句

• Mr.Brown has just returned from a whistle-stop tour of France, the United States and South America to drum up support for unified economic action.

權威例句

• The president secured a smashing electoral mandate on the basis of a campaign waged explicitly — at every whistle stop and in every endorsement address — as a referendum on his stewardship of the war on terror.
  CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy President Bush Wants to Liberate Iraq, But the UN Security Council Does Not
• The college was at the edge of a small town way upstate, barely a town, maybe a hamlet, we said, or just a whistle stop, and we took walks all the time, getting out, going nowhere, low skies and bare trees, hardly a soul to be seen.
  NEWYORKER: Midnight in Dostoevsky

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词组短语

短語

• whistle e stop 小城
• whistle -stop 短暫停畱
• Whistle -stop Campaigning 鳴笛競選
• whistle stop tour 旅行訪問
• Catering Whistle Stop Cafe 標簽

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英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• a minor railway station where trains stop only on signal
• a small town having such a station
• to campaign for office by visiting many small towns to give short speeches

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