way station
英 [ˈweɪ steɪʃn]
美 [ˈweɪ steɪʃn]
n. (长途旅行中的)小站,小饭馆
牛津词典
noun
- (长途旅行中的)小站,小饭馆
a place where people stop to eat or rest during a long journey
柯林斯词典
- (长途旅程中暂时停留休息的)小站
Away stationis a place where people stop to eat and rest when they are on a long journey. - (铁路上大站之间的)小站
Away stationis a small station between two large stations on a railway.
英英释义
noun
- a small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal
- a stopping place on a journey
- there is a stopover to change planes in Chicago
双语例句
- We walked the whole way to the station, a matter of3 miles.
我们一直走到车站,大约3英里的路程。 - At each "way station," the compound must resist the acids of digestive juices, jump membrane barriers or fend off enzymes designed to chop it into useless bits.
每到一个「关卡」,药物就必须抵抗消化液的酸侵蚀,或必须穿越膜障碍,或必须避开专门将药物砍成无用碎片的酵素。 - The Sudanese were stranded at a border way station for months.
这些苏丹人滞留在一个边境站长达数月。 - Humanitarian agencies are setting up a way station in a small, remote mountain town in Chad.
人道主义机构正在乍得一个偏远的小镇上设立一个中转站。 - On the way to the station, he chatted about their trip.
在去火车站的路上他聊起了她们的旅程。 - On the way to the station I stopped to buy a paper.
去车站的路上,我停下来买了一张报纸。 - We had to walk all the way from the station to the hotel.
我们不得不一直从车站走到旅馆。 - About twenty minutes walk north of king's cross lies York way station.
国王十字车站向北步行大约二十分钟是约克路车站。 - These three events mark an important way station on a route he mapped during a speech in the Czech capital a year ago.
这三件事标志着他一年前在布拉格勾画的路线上的一个重要站点。 - The potential for abuse is whether the way station becomes a hiding spot, either to reduce taxes at the end of the journey or to launder criminal money.
滥用的可能性在于这个小站是否成为逃税之所,要么是为了减少到达旅途终点时的缴税,要么是为了漂洗犯罪所得。