英 [ˈwɪs(ə)l stɒp]
小站；小镇：通常指火车经过时只停留很短时间的小站或小镇。
whistle stop //
名词 a minor railway station where trains stop only on signal 吹哨停车的小火车站
名词 a small town having such a station 有吹哨停车小火车站的小镇
动词 to campaign for office by visiting many small towns to give short speeches (通过访问很多小镇并发表简短演说的方式)竞选
a small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal
同义词： flag stop / way station
tour the country in order to solicit votes for an election
同义词： whistlestop
... whistle jigs to a milestone 对牛弹琴 whistle stop 小城 whistle up 召集 ...
... inverse medium scattering 反散射 whistle stop 短暂停留 seawall 海堤 ...
聆听这张《荒僻小站》（Whistle Stop）专辑，你将会发现肯尼•多罕（Kenny Dorham）是一位多么伟大的小号手。专辑中的曲目都是肯尼•多罕经典中的经典。
列车也安排有暂短停留观光，英文称之为哨停（Whistle stop）观光，当然费用自负。卡尔古利曾是西澳黄金地带重要的黄金产地之一，它连同附近的鲍尔德（Boulder）构成了西澳相当规模的内陆都邑...
（快车不停的）小城；乡镇；短暂停留
There are whistle stop tours by train, by plane, by car.
汽车、飞机、火车上都有让旅客停下观看的口哨。
The referee finally blew the whistle to stop the game.
裁判最后吹响了终场的哨声。
"Pass! Pass!" Nasmith kept shouting, blowing his whistle to stop the excited players.
“传球！传球！” 内史密斯不停地喊着，吹着哨子阻止激动的球员们。
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.
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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.
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.
Their leader Charles Kennedy is on a whistle-stop tour of 11 British cities by Friday.