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
- They're like a way station, you know?
他们就象是个中转站，明白吗？ - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Can you tell me the nearest way to the station?
你能告诉我去火车站最近的路吗？ - Whereafter, they all keep in silent on the way to railway station.
然后他们一直沉默，走到了火车站。 - Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.& C.Pollock, British jurist
幸福是太多和太少之间的一站。英国法学家波洛克 - She went with me all the way to the station.
她一直把我送到车站。 - 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。