clip-clop, gangway, throughway

Clip-clopping around Europe over the past few weeks, Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s dashing finance minister, has urged the euro zone to chart a new course. Endlessly forcing new loans upon indebted countries like Greece in the pretence that they will one day be repaid, he argued, was a strategy for depression and deflationhttp://econ.st/1vuTpQZ

clip-clopLine breaks: clip-clop

Pronunciation: /ˈklɪpklɒp 

  

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Definition of clip-clop in English:

NOUN

[IN SINGULAR]

The sound of a horse’s hoofs beating on a hardsurface:the clip-clop of horseshoes ringing against theroadway

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VERB

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Move with a clip-clop:the horses clip-clopped slowly along the street

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Origin

late 19th century: imitative.

throughwayLine breaks: through|way

Pronunciation: /ˈθruːweɪ

  

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(also thruway)

Definition of throughway in English:

NOUN

North American

A major road or motorway.

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Don't linger on the gangway. 不要在車廂間逗留。
Gangway

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Pronunciation: /ˈɡaŋweɪ

  

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Definition of gangway in English:

NOUN

1A raised platform or walkway providing a passage.

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1.1A movable bridge linking a ship to the shore.

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1.2An opening in the bulwarks by which a ship isentered or left.

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2British A passage between rows of seats, especially in a theatre or aircraft.

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EXCLAMATION

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Make way!.