| 释义 |
walkathon colloq. (orig. and chiefly U.S.).|ˈwɔːkəθɒn|
[f. walking vbl. n.1 + -athon.]
A long-distance or protracted walk; orig. a competitive one, now esp. one undertaken to raise money for charity.
1932Kansas City (Missouri) Times 20 Feb. 26 Sure a hick town is a place where they have enough superhicks to put on a walkathon. 1933Sun (Baltimore) 4 Nov. 6/6 Next Thursday a number of Hagerstowners will enter upon an endurance contest different from any ever tried here before—a walking marathon, or a ‘walkathon’, as the promoters insist on calling it. The contestants walk forty⁓five minutes and rest fifteen for as long as they hold out. 1951M. Kennedy Lucy Carmichael v. i. 239 If I had that hall I'd put on a Walkathon... In California..after two or three weeks, when there's only a few couples left in, they chain them, see? So if the girl faints, the feller can't push her under the ropes. 1957Daily Mail 27 Dec. 4/3 If Barber gets to the bottom of the world by plane, why on earth are the other boys—the Hillary-Fuchs expeditions—walking?.. I gather that the walkathon idea is the British contribution to the Geophysical Year. 1963Weekly News (Auckland) 31 July 3/4 (caption) Representatives of harriers, scouts, bible classes and old soldiers taking part in the recent 50-mile ‘walkathon’ in aid of the Murray Halberg Trust for Crippled Children. 1976Indian Express 8 June, Walkathon. Indian athlete Harbans Singh, 28, walked non-stop for 144 hours in the town of Jalalabad. 1979Honolulu Advertiser 8 Jan. b–2/2 Manned booths for various charitable walk-a-thons or walked themselves. |