whistle stop
基本解释
- n. （快车不停的）小城；乡镇；短暂停留
英汉例句
- 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。 - 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.
- 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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权威例句
词组短语
- 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
短语
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