Revisiting Lady Bird Johnson’s whistle-stop tour and what Melania Trump isn’t using the first lady’s office forFrom the headline of this article at CNN.
上記の文で、whistle-stopの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "whistle-stop" mean?
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解答
意味：英辞郎によると、
問題の見出しの場合は、形容詞なので「地方遊説の」になります。この他に、自動詞もありますが、あまり使用されません。
- 名詞：笛を鳴らしたらやめること、急行列車通過駅、ひなびた町、小駅、短時間で多くの場所を回る選挙演説、地方遊説
- 形容詞：地方遊説の、各駅停車で旅をする
Answer
According to Merriam-Webster:
- a small station at which trains stop only on signal: FLAG STOP
- a small community
- a brief personal appearance especially by a political candidate usually on the rear platform of a train during the course of a tour
語源
Grammaristによると、Whistle stopは、列車の運行手順に由来する。アメリカでかつては、乗降客がいない限り列車が止まらない小さい町がありました。列車が停車する場合、それを知らせるために汽笛を鳴らした。この表現は、1920年代から使用されている。
Etymology
According to Grammarist,The expression whistle stop comes from the procedures used in railway travel. A train might not stop when passing through a small town unless a passenger wants to board or depart the train. If the train is going to stop, it blows the whistle to alert the community. The term whistle stop came into use in the 1920s.
Examples
- No more whistle-stop tours of the newest shopping centre in Nuneaton to look forward to.
- In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries.
- Why should he hang around this whistle stop for a wasted week-end, holding kitchen conversations with the unmighty living?
- The whistle-stop tour highlighted the kind of advanced military technologies Mr. Kim covets for his country. — Choe Sang-Hun, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023
- That’s why suggestions that Biden galvanize his presidency with a dramatic Oval Office address, or even my own 2022 proposal for a Harry Truman–esque whistle-stop tour, misread reality. — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
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