| 释义 |
walk-in, a. and n.|ˈwɔːkɪn|
[f. walk v.1 + in adv.]
A. adj.
1. Pertaining to or designating a person who walks into premises casually or without an appointment; spec. applied to (a) a thief who walks in rather than breaks in; (b) a person who offers his services to a foreign power unsolicited, as by walking into its embassy or consulate.
1928Daily Express 6 Oct. 11/2 A criminal of the type described by the police as the ‘walk-in-thief’, who, if he encounters anyone, slides gently from the house, with a plausible excuse. 1962John o' London's 25 Jan. 82/3 A housebreaker by day is a walk-in man. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 1 July, They will be on duty for walk-in and other services from 10.00 a.m. to midnight daily..said the executive director of the hospital. 1978D. Bloodworth Crosstalk x. 84 In March we got ourselves a walk-in defector from China. 1979United States 1980/81 (Penguin Travel Guides) 45 In larger cities, many hospitals have walk-in clinics designed to serve people who do not really need an emergency service, but who have no place to go for immediate medical attention.
2. a. Of a storage area: large enough to walk into.
1943Pioneering in Food Preservation (New Dominion Ser. No. 37), A small walk-in refrigeration plant for curing meat. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 19 Jan. 118/1 (Advt.), Makers of walk-in incubators. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 ii. 36 Oedipa skipped into the bathroom, which happened also to have a walk-in closet. 1976Evening Post (Nottingham) 15 Dec. 17/1 (Advt.), Large fitted kitchen, walk-in larder. 1982A. Mather Impetuous Masquerade vii. 105 A matching chest and fitted walk-in closets.
b. Of a cinema, etc.: entered on foot, in contrast to a drive-in. N. Amer.
1968Amer. Speech XLIII. 157 He recognized..a desire for something more than the ubiquitous..drive-in and directed me to a walk-in restaurant a few blocks away. 1973Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 3 Nov. 2/1 We can't even go to a walk-in movie because he falls asleep and snores so loud it is embarrassing. So we usually go to drive-ins where he can sleep peacefully.
c. Of a room: entered directly from a specified area rather than through an intervening passage.
1967Coast to Coast 1965–6 160 Back left of the bar was a row of walk-in walk-out bedrooms surrounded by a veranda. 1971D. E. Westlake I gave at Office (1972) 75 A narrow walk-in kitchen was off the living room through a doorway in the short wall opposite the window.
B. n.
1. A walk-in closet or cold-storage room (see sense A. 2 a above).
1946Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 21 Mar. 15/2 Deep Freeze and Frozen Food Storage Walk-In Refrigerators... Down payment required as all walk-ins are custom built to customers' own specifications. 1970‘E. Queen’ Last Woman iii. 160 His wardrobe closet was a roomy walk-in.
2. A walk-in defector (see sense A. 1 above).
1975P. Agee Inside Company i. 59 The first type is known as the ‘walk-in’. The walk-in is a member of the party who..decides to offer his services to the U.S. government. He makes his initial contact..by walking into the U.S. Embassy or Consulate. 1980E. Behr Getting Even ii. 23 The only really satisfactory defectors were walk-ins, as they were known in the trade. |