单词 | whistle-stopped |
释义 | whistle-stopped in British Englishpast participle of verb, past tense of verb whistle-stop whistle-stop in British English (ˈwɪsəlˌstɒp) verbWord forms: whistle-stops, whistle-stopping or whistle-stopped (intransitive) 1. to campaign for office by visiting many small towns to give short speeches adjective 2. involving brief appearances in a succession of places, esp by a political candidate to make a speech, shake hands, etc Bertie Ahern will host a working dinner for Tony Blair tonight as he jets into Dublinon a whistle-stop tour of E.U. capitals. He had made the whistle-stop visit on his way home from the World Economic Forum. Examples of 'whistle-stopped' in a sentence |
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