bush telegraph

短语

传播消息的小道; 小广播

发音

AU

词形变化

bush telegraphs 复数

别名

bush-telegraph

释义与例句

n.

1.

A system used by undeveloped societies in remote regions for communication over long distances, such as drum sounds, word-of-mouth relay, or smoke signals.

习语

When I was born, family and friends came from all over, thanks to the bush telegraph. There were very few telephones where I grew up, so my father mentioned my birth to someone at the market. And that woman told a man who was delivering rice to a place up the road. He told someone there, who was taking a herd of cattle south, toward the villages. And pretty soon the news of my birth had spread far and wide.
2.

A gossip network.

习语