tank town如何读

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tank town是什么意思

  • n.

    火车停车装水的小镇；

    • tank town英英释义

    noun

    formerly, a town at which trains stopped only to fill their water tanks; small, insignificant town.

    tank town词源英文解释

    from the fact that trains stopped at such towns only to take on water

    The first known use of tank town was in 1906

    tank town 例句

    1 Sugar Ray Robinson fighting in tank towns, Joe Louis refereeing wrestling matches and glad-handing at Las Vegas casinos—but no one could have predicted such a fate when Ali was Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.

    tank town 同义词

    1 小镇

    small-town townlet township whistle-stop ham podunk

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