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单词 corridor-carriage
释义

corridor /korˈi-dör/

noun
  1. A passageway or gallery communicating with separate rooms or dwellings in a building or compartments in a railway train
  2. A strip of territory or airspace by which a country has access to a particular place, eg a port, or providing access through another's land for a particular purpose
  3. (in pl) places outside the administrative centre where unofficial news circulates and gossip is carried on (politics)
ORIGIN: Fr, from Ital corridore, from Ital correre to run, from L currere

corrˈidor-carriage or corrˈidor-train noun

A railway carriage or train in which one can pass along from one compartment to another

corridor work noun (informal)

Discussion behind the scenes at a meeting

corridors of power (figurative)

The higher reaches of government administration

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