whistle stop

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