strap-hanging
名词 n.
动词 v.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The action of hanging on to a strap or rail on public transport.
— An important sporting event or historical pageant taxes London's Underground railways to the utmost limit, and strap-hanging is and always will be an everyday occurrence.
动词 v.
- present participle and gerund of strap-hang
形容词 adj.
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Relating to standing passengers, hanging on to a strap or rail provided in a bus or train.
— The definitive London commute is from west London to the City in the east, and in his novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) George Orwell invoked 'the strap-hanging army that swings eastward in the morning, westward at night, in the carriages of the Underground'.
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