| 释义 |
wall-to-wall, a. (n., adv.)
(stress variable)
[wall n.1]
1. Of carpeting: covering the whole floor of a room; fitted. Also absol. as n.
1953A. Upfield Murder must Wait ii. 12, I detest wall-to-wall carpets. 1962A. Lurie Love & Friendship vi. 97 Genuine hooked rugs scattered over the wall-to-wall carpet. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai iii. 39 The room fascinated me because it had two carpets on the floor, a ‘wall-to-wall’ covered by an Axminster. 1977C. McFadden Serial (1978) xxxvi. 78/2 Harvey hated crawling around on the wall-to-wall looking for contact lenses. 1977New Yorker 15 Aug. 33/1 What impressed me most about that house was the carpeting, which was mercilessly wall-to-wall. 1978Meridian Poetry Mag. Autumn 10 He bestrides the wall-to-wall carpeting Like a colossus.
2. a. Of objects, etc., other than carpeting: extending from one wall to another; providing coverage of an entire space. Also as quasi-adv.
1959Observer 12 Apr. 14/5 Underpinned with warmth—a wall-to-wall convection heater. 1977Washington Post 27 Nov. m3/1 Wall-to-wall art—framed prints, posters or one enormous canvas—can cover a whole wall. Ibid. 3/2 I designed everything wall-to-wall... The bed,..being 75 inches long, the distance between two of the walls, is an instant wall-to-wall component.
b. fig. Extending from one end or extreme to the other; allowing no unfilled space; ubiquitous.
1967New Yorker 25 Nov. 222 He made a highly successful series of wall-to-wall mood-music recordings. 1973Listener 19 Apr. 522/2 A respite from wall-to-wall Mozart on Radios 3 and 4. 1976Patriot-Ledger (Quincy, Mass.) 10 July 3/1 The state police said it was just wall-to-wall people and wall-to-wall cars. 1977Time 19 Sept. 9/3 When we kick down doors looking for these people at home, we find almost always tons of literature—wall-to-wall Marx and Marcuse. 1982S. Paretsky Indemnity Only vi. 74 Why would he agree to see me? He'd never heard of me, he has wall-to-wall appointments. 1984Listener 15 Mar. 19/1 Is there any good reason why we should have news bulletins, local and national, every hour on the hour, chat shows..and wall-to-wall discussion programmes? 1984New Statesman 16 Nov. 16/2 Their sponsors include the IBA..and the BBC (in whose Reithian corridors the epithet ‘wall-to-wall Dallas’ was reputedly coined). |