mailbag

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈmeɪlˌbæɡ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A strong canvas bag used for the transportation of mail.
    — The communicating doors of adjoining vehicles are opened simultaneously by pressing a large push-button located a suitable height for a man loaded with mailbags to contact it with his shoulder; after a time-lag of seven seconds the doors close automatically.
  2. A smaller bag, slung from the shoulder, used by a mail carrier during the delivery of mail.
  3. The correspondence received by a publishing entity such as a magazine or website. broadly,figuratively
    — In our mailbag this month, we've got no less than 12 letters from those of you who think that Jones should not have been benched.

词形变化

mailbags plural mail bag alternative

词汇关系

相关词
mail carrier mailman mailwoman

词源

From mail + bag.
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