whistle stop

基本解釋

Life is a whistle stop between eternities.
人生只是永恒中的一剎那而已。
Life eis a whistle stop between eternities.
人生只是永恒中的一剎那而已。。
There are whistle stop tours by train, by plane, by car.
汽車、飛機(jī)、火車上都有讓旅客停下觀看的口哨。

Mr.Brown has just returned from a whistle-stop tour of France, the United States and South America to drum up support for unified economic action.

The president secured a smashing electoral mandate on the basis of a campaign waged explicitly — at every whistle stop and in every endorsement address — as a referendum on his stewardship of the war on terror.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy President Bush Wants to Liberate Iraq, But the UN Security Council Does Not
The college was at the edge of a small town way upstate, barely a town, maybe a hamlet, we said, or just a whistle stop, and we took walks all the time, getting out, going nowhere, low skies and bare trees, hardly a soul to be seen.
NEWYORKER: Midnight in Dostoevsky