英语词汇“whistle-stop”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

whistle-stop

adjective [attributive]

Very fast and with only brief pauses: a whistle-stop tour of Britain...

Finally, there were the ubiquitous Japanese tourists, who were presumably on whistle-stop tours of Oxford with the intention of capturing as much of it on film as possible.
Mr Blunkett's whistle-stop tour continued with meetings with Keighley Together, a group set up to underline the positive images of the town, and the Braithwaite People's Association.
And, as if it to prove a point, he shepherded us to the top deck for an aerial, whistle-stop tour of the city away from the thundering road drills.

noun North American

1A small unimportant town on a railway: she raised five kids in Hornepayne, a whistle stop along the CN Line north of Lake Superior...

En route to the World's Fair, the girls would sharpen their skills and increase their visibility by playing exhibition and challenge games at whistle-stops all along the way.
But Racine is much more than a whistle-stop on the dairy run.
In 1941, what is now Warner Robins was a sleepy little whistle-stop known as Wellston, located just south of Macon in the central part of the state.

1.1A 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...

Such ‘cultural events’ have become popular whistle-stops for political parties keen to woo the nearly 300,000 Asian New Zealanders of voting age.
As he spoke at the first whistle-stop, 19-year-old Ben Brown, an NDP supporter, stood silently holding a sign warning of environmental damage under a Conservative government.
Diane Schmitt, a recruiter in Prescott, Ariz., let Bart talk to a handful of her recruits, at one of his first whistle-stops, which included Oklahoma, Ohio and New York.

单词	whistle-stop
释义	whistle-stop adjective [attributive] Very fast and with only brief pauses: a whistle-stop tour of Britain... Finally, there were the ubiquitous Japanese tourists, who were presumably on whistle-stop tours of Oxford with the intention of capturing as much of it on film as possible. Mr Blunkett's whistle-stop tour continued with meetings with Keighley Together, a group set up to underline the positive images of the town, and the Braithwaite People's Association. And, as if it to prove a point, he shepherded us to the top deck for an aerial, whistle-stop tour of the city away from the thundering road drills. noun North American 1A small unimportant town on a railway: she raised five kids in Hornepayne, a whistle stop along the CN Line north of Lake Superior... En route to the World's Fair, the girls would sharpen their skills and increase their visibility by playing exhibition and challenge games at whistle-stops all along the way. But Racine is much more than a whistle-stop on the dairy run. In 1941, what is now Warner Robins was a sleepy little whistle-stop known as Wellston, located just south of Macon in the central part of the state. 1.1A 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... Such ‘cultural events’ have become popular whistle-stops for political parties keen to woo the nearly 300,000 Asian New Zealanders of voting age. As he spoke at the first whistle-stop, 19-year-old Ben Brown, an NDP supporter, stood silently holding a sign warning of environmental damage under a Conservative government. Diane Schmitt, a recruiter in Prescott, Ariz., let Bart talk to a handful of her recruits, at one of his first whistle-stops, which included Oklahoma, Ohio and New York.
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