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
- The offshore centre acts as a "way station" that facilitates complex international trade and investment flows.
离岸金融中心发挥着“铁路小站”的作用，促进了复杂国际贸易和投资的流动。 - She went with me all the way to the station.
她一直把我送到车站。 - 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 I stopped to buy a paper.
去车站的路上，我停下来买了一张报纸。 - The excellent achievements of way station training are a sign of Chinese army modernization.
小站练兵成绩优异，是中国陆军开始向现代转型的标志。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - By the time you are a grown adult and a professional football player, though, athletic misbehaviour signals something else besides one's presence at a way station on the path to moral maturity.
尽管他已经成年并成为了一个职业足球运动员，但到这之前，在他走向心理成熟的途中，他的不正当举止也标志了一些除了个人行为以外的其他东西。 - There are no taxes or low taxes in the "way station" because the money is in transit.
这些“小站”没有税收，或者税率很低，因为资金正在运送途中。