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door-to-door

/dawr-tuh-dawr, dohr-tuh-dohr/US // ˈdɔr təˈdɔr, ˈdoʊr təˈdoʊr //

门到门,挨家挨户,门对门,挨家挨户的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : calling, selling, canvassing, etc., at each house or apartment in an area, town, or the like: a door-to-door poll.
    • : sent direct from the point of pickup to the point of delivery, as a shipment or order of merchandise.
    • : covering the complete route of a door-to-door shipment, delivery, etc.: door-to-door carrying charges; door-to-door insurance.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a door-to-door manner.

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Examples

  • A guard is manning the door, which is always kept ajar so she can be monitored.

  • What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.

  • The kid from next door drops by and Marvin talks to him about the stunts in his latest film, Death Hunt.

  • That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.

  • It will still carry a pair of Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM long-range air-to-air missiles and a pair of bombs.

  • Before Ripperda could unclasp his lips to reply, the stranger had opened the door, and passed through it like a gliding shadow.

  • She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.

  • She walked away toward another door, which was masked with a curtain that she lifted.

  • Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

  • Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."