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pit stop

/pit-stop/US // ˈpɪt ˌstɒp //

维修站,停车站,维修站站,维修站站台

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Auto Racing. a stop in the pits during a race, in which a competing car receives gasoline, a change of tires, or other servicing or repair.
    • : Informal. any brief stop, as during a ride or trip in an automobile, so that one may get refreshments, use a restroom, etc.
    • : a place where one makes such stops.

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Examples

  • Dixon was forced to pit late because of a caution flag stemming from a pit lane accident that occurred when Stefan Wilson’s wheels locked up as he drove in a for pit stop on the narrow pit lane.

  • They’re really fast in the pit stop and it just shows that if you give people any opportunity, they take it.

  • The stories are somewhat abridged, and at 3⅔ hours, the full collection is just enough, perhaps, to get you to the next pit stop.

  • I only had to refill it with ice three times during an 11-day road trip, saving me money and limiting the number of times I had to make gas-station pit stops.

  • Roadside fruit standsOn highways and country roads throughout Costa Rica, open-air fruit stands are an easy pit stop.

  • But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.

  • That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.

  • Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.

  • The men were accused of reneging on pledges to stop working for the Iraqi government.

  • Has L.A. figured out how to stop the epidemic it set loose on the world?

  • With the management of these, however, the Earl of Pit Town did not trouble himself.

  • "But I can't stop to argue about it now;" and, saying this, he turned into a side path, and disappeared in the wood.

  • At twelve, or fifteen, or sixteen, or twenty it was decided that they should stop learning.

  • He had seen the act committed, he felt sure but had made no effort whatever to stop the thief.

  • The Kangaroo can hop and hop and hop; Somehow he never seems to want to stop.