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A barnstormer is the person who travels from place to place, making short stops to give a show: a play, a political speech, or an aircraft flying display. The word is the , not the trip. In early flying history, barnstormers were the pilots who carried into the countryside, one dusty field at a time — landing, drawing a crowd, selling a ride, then moving on. A politician who sleeps on a bus and speaks in a new town every night is a barnstormer too. The job is movement plus a short, loud performance, then on to the next place.
巡迴演說(或演出、飛行表演)的人
組成barnstorm + -er (the person who does it).
同家族的字
- barnstormthe verb this is built from
- barnstormingthe touring itself, or an energetic show
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
barnstormernoun
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One who barnstorms.
- Also a prince's cook; and even the water-carrier of that sublime lord of lords and king of kings, the Governor-General of India! How broad they were in their tastes! They also murdered actors—poor wandering barnstormers.
- “Craig’s final film as the diva of British intelligence is an epic barnstormer, […]
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。