橘子朗文词典

whistle stop

W 开头单词

基本解释

  • n. （快车不停的）小城；乡镇；短暂停留

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • Life is a whistle stop between eternities.
    人生只是永恒中的一刹那而已。
  • Life eis a whistle stop between eternities.
    人生只是永恒中的一刹那而已。 。
  • There are whistle stop tours by train, by plane, by car.
    汽车、飞机、火车上都有让旅客停下观看的口哨。

    • 原声例句

  • 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.

    • 权威例句

  • 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

词组短语

    短语

  • whistle e stop 小城
  • whistle -stop 短暂停留
  • Whistle -stop Campaigning 鸣笛竞选
  • whistle stop tour 旅行访问
  • Catering Whistle Stop Cafe 标签

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