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mailbag

/meyl-bag/US // ˈmeɪlˌbæg //UK // (ˈmeɪlˌbæɡ) //

邮袋,邮包,邮政包,邮政袋

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a large bag used by mail carriers for carrying mail, usually equipped with a shoulder strap.
    • : a large bag or pouch used in transporting mail in bulk from general post offices to branch offices, from city to city, etc.

Examples

  • In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke and Nate Silver open the mailbag to answer listeners’ questions about politics, polling and hot dogs.

  • In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, we open up the mailbag to answer listener questions on polling, politics and anything else on people’s minds.

  • In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Nate Silver and Galen Druke open the mailbag and answer listeners’ questions about politics, polling and more.

  • They also shake out the mailbag and answer some listener questions.

  • The president riposted by laying claim to a bigger mailbag: “I get 40,000 emails a day,” he said.

  • I wiped her off the side of the car like a mailbag is clipped from the fast express by the catch-hook.

  • A fast train whiffled through the town and they baggage-hooked a mailbag off the car at about a hundred and fifty per.

  • Among other outrages, a mailbag was stolen from the York postboy, on the evening of February 22 in that year.

  • All of them therefore jumped up to greet the bearer of the mailbag, being greatly interested in news from the home folks.

  • But the policeman had a mailbag to deliver that night, and we had to push on.