词汇 | bumper-to-bumper |
释义 | bumper to bumperidiom with so many cars that are so close that they are almost touching each other: 车子一辆接一辆 By eight o'clock the traffic was bumper to bumper.到了8点钟,交通变得非常拥堵,车子一辆接一辆的。 too full of vehicles busyThe M4 is always busy. congestedTraffic is congested heading into and out of the city this morning. gridlockedChicago is one of the most gridlocked cities in America. backed upThere's an accident on the motorway and traffic is backed up for miles. bumper to bumperThe road is bumper to bumper as tourists flock up the coast. jammedTraffic is jammed up for miles. On the road: traffic jams back back someone up backed up bottleneck congested congestion gridlocked high-traffic jam rasta roko rush hour snarl-up sock sock something/someone in (with sb) tail back tailback traffic traffic calming traffic jam bumper to bumper | American Dictionarybumper to bumperidiom with almost no space between one car and the next in a line of cars: The traffic was bumper to bumper all the way home. Examples of bumper to bumperbumper to bumper There is a continual passage of vehicles of all kinds, bumpertobumper—heavy goods lorries as well as saloon cars—passing my door in both directions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I saw it estimated that if they were placed bumpertobumper they would stretch for 1,000 miles. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As aircraft land, passengers will realise that the snakes are millions of cars travelling bumpertobumper. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With traffic bumpertobumper along the main roads, residents seeking to emerge from the side roads in which they live find it virtually impossible to do so. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But the grill, the rooflines and details on the bonnet and boot made for an integrated design from bumpertobumper. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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