whistle-stop “走马观花的，浮光掠影的，蜻蜓点水的”

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进行巡访，短暂旅行访问﹙如竞选旅行﹚，有一个很地道的英语词汇whistle-stop，可以引申为“走马观花的，浮光掠影的，蜻蜓点水的”，是一个不错的地道的英语单词。

英语学员和同学可以做这样的基本理解：whistle-stop用法，当作是形容词，一般是后面加tour, election, town等词语，表示“走马观花的，浮光掠影的，蜻蜓点水的”。
注意，这个词汇，有字典把它当作形容词，也有字典当作名词。当用作形容词的时候，仅仅用作定语。有时可以用作动词，需要特别注意。

whistle-stop
a ,whistle-stop 'tour
■ short visits to different places made by a politician,etc. during an election campaign, etc. 在各地作的短暂旅行访问﹙如竞选旅行﹚:
The Prime Minister left on a whistle-stop tour of the north of England today. 首相今天出发去英格兰北部进行竞选旅行。
The new manager's gone on a whistlestop tour of all the offices. 新上任的经理到各个办公室进行巡访。

whistle-stop
'whistle-stop
adjective
[only before noun]
   visiting a lot of different places in a very short time
   走马观花的；浮光掠影的:
   to go on a  whistle-stop tour of Europe
   到欧洲各地作走马看花的观光
   politicians on a whistle-stop election campaign
   在各地进行蜻蜓点水式竞选宣传的政治人物

whistle-stop

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'whistle-ˌstop
◙adj [AmE]
1. whistle-stop tour / trip,  a trip during which someone, especially a politician, visits many different places in a short period of time
• 每站只停留不久的旅行（访问），走马观花的旅行（访问）:
»a whistle-stop tour of Texas
  在得克萨斯的一次走马观花的访问

更多高级内容，文化背景了解，词源，英英解释等，请看下面。
whistle-stop
I. \ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
1.
a. : a small station at which trains stop only on signal : flag stop
b. : a small community : tank town
  < posters that brought in the yokels from fifty miles around every whistle-stop we played — Bennett Cerf >
2. : a brief personal appearance especially by a political candidate usually on the rear platform of a train during the course of a tour
< allowing people to savor his personality (which is the real purpose of a whistle-stop) while thawing them out with an anecdote — John Mason Brown >
3. : an insignificant or routine way station
< Gander, that global whistle-stop in the midst of Newfoundland's immense forests — Friends Intelligencer >
< life is a whistle-stop between eternities — Rosa Marinoni >
II. intransitive verb
1. : to make a tour (as a campaign swing) pausing at all way stations
< whistle-stop across the country >
2. : to make personal appearances or speeches at whistle-stops
< whistle-stopping eastward through Utah in behalf of the … Democratic ticket — I.W.Russell >

有兴趣的同学，可以去了解下，这个词汇的字面意思和它的真正含义的联系，比如，whistle是口哨，鸣笛等意思。为什么鸣笛一声的站/停靠，就是走马观花呢？


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