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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。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
'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
'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
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 >
