英语词汇“nose-to-tail”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

d. nose to tail: one behind another and very close together, now esp. of motor vehicles in heavy traffic; so nose-to-tail adj.

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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [adjective] > density of traffic

nose to taila1834

light1848

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [adverb] > density of traffic

nose to taila1834

bumper-to-bumper1901

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Compl. Poet. Wks. (1912) II. 986 Nose to tail, with this gipsy Comes, black as a porpus, The diabolus ipse.

1842 Southern Lit. Messenger Oct. 660/1 Imagine a pointer circling in search of the hole of a ground-squirrel, with a young one following, nose to tail.

1891 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 500/2 We passed..water-wheel boats anchored in the current, nose to tail, in a long line.

a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) ix. 59 A procession of lorries, nose to tail,..were tearing down the road.

1960 Guardian 7 June 6/1 The accustomed queues of nose-to-tail traffic on main roads.

1974 ‘C. Fremlin’ By Horror Haunted 48 The nose-to-tail crawl along the motorway.

1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army xv. 164 To avoid churning up fields..tank squadrons sat nose to tail, seldom allowed off the road.

单词	nose-to-tail
释义	> as lemmas nose-to-tail d. nose to tail: one behind another and very close together, now esp. of motor vehicles in heavy traffic; so nose-to-tail adj. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [adjective] > density of traffic nose to taila1834 light1848 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [adverb] > density of traffic nose to taila1834 bumper-to-bumper1901 a1834 S. T. Coleridge Compl. Poet. Wks. (1912) II. 986 Nose to tail, with this gipsy Comes, black as a porpus, The diabolus ipse. 1842 Southern Lit. Messenger Oct. 660/1 Imagine a pointer circling in search of the hole of a ground-squirrel, with a young one following, nose to tail. 1891 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 500/2 We passed..water-wheel boats anchored in the current, nose to tail, in a long line. a1944 K. Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem (1946) ix. 59 A procession of lorries, nose to tail,..were tearing down the road. 1960 Guardian 7 June 6/1 The accustomed queues of nose-to-tail traffic on main roads. 1974 ‘C. Fremlin’ By Horror Haunted 48 The nose-to-tail crawl along the motorway. 1990 A. Beevor Inside Brit. Army xv. 164 To avoid churning up fields..tank squadrons sat nose to tail, seldom allowed off the road. extracted from nosen. < as lemmas
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