搜尋結果
whistle-stop
- IPA[ˈwɪslstɒp]
英式
- very fast and with only brief pauses
- a small unimportant town on a railway;a brief pause in a tour by a politician for an electioneering speech
noun: whistle-stop, plural noun: whistle-stops
- 釋義
形容詞
- 1. very fast and with only brief pauses a whistle-stop tour of Britain
名詞
- 1. North American a small unimportant town on a railway she raised five kids in Hornepayne, a whistle stop along the CN Line north of Lake Superior
- ▪ North American a brief pause in a tour by a politician for an electioneering speech in politics, smoky back rooms long ago gave way to the whistle-stop and the radio exhortation
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- IPA[ˈ(h)wis(ə)lˌstäp]
美式
- very fast and with only brief pauses: a whistle-stop tour of Britain
- a small unimportant town on a railroad: she raised five kids in Hornepayne, a whistle stop along the CN Line north of Lake Superior
Oxford American Dictionary