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词汇 mailbag
释义 mailbag
noun
uk /ˈmeɪl.bæɡ/ us /ˈmeɪl.bæɡ/
[ C ](UK alsopostbag)
a large, strong bag used by the post office for transporting and carrying letters and parcels邮袋,邮包
 
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[ Cusually singular ]
the number of letters, emails, etc. received at one time or on one subject: 一批次的邮件数;关于同一主题的邮件数
Since the controversial programme was broadcast, the station's mailbag has been bulging.自从那次有争议的节目播出后,广播公司的邮件数开始猛增。
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mailbag | Business English


mailbag
noun[ C ]
 COMMUNICATIONSuk /ˈmeɪlbæɡ/us
a large bag used for transporting mail on a truck, plane, etc.
US
a bag containing mail that is carried by someone whose job is taking mail to homes and offices
US
→ postbag

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Previously, my biggest mailbag was on the sad case of the beagle dogs who were being experimented upon and being forced to smoke cigarettes.
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Day after day, week after week, there are the same dull duties—watching prisoners sewing mailbags, supervising exercise, and so on.
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In addition, there have been 10 further mailbag robberies where the total losses, for some reason or another, are not available.
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Untried prisoners who desire to work are employed on the manufacture and repair of mailbags.
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The prisoners are employed in sheet metal work, engineering, metal recovery, assembling components, mailbag-sewing, farming, building and the domestic services of the prison.
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Too often we get letters in our mailbags from constituents who feel, rightly or wrongly, that they have been ripped off by unscrupulous landlords.
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We might not then have received large mailbags from our constituents, reflecting anxieties that were often unfounded or based on misleading information.
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I know from my own mailbag that many individual constituents complain about it.
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I was interested in his assessment of the contents of his constituency mailbag.
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A few are employed at sewing mailbags, but neither this nor any other sewing takes the skin off their hands.
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I said just now that we all got a tremendous mailbag at the time of the first workings of the two-tier system.
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They took up much space in our mailbags rather early in our history here.
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Workshops in which mailbags are made are not inspiring places.
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I have had several letters in my mailbag recently on the same issue.
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My constituents and the contents of my mailbag tell me that the public do not buy those arguments.
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