1TBBa long narrowpassage on a train or between rooms in a building, with doors leading off it 通道;走廊
in the corridor
We had to wait outside in the corridor until our names were called.
我们只好在外面的走廊上等候叫我们的名字。
down/along the corridor
She hurried down the corridor.
她沿着走廊匆匆而去。
Go down here and the bathroom’s at the end of the corridor.
沿着这儿走,浴室就在走廊的尽头。
2SGa narrow area of land between cities or countries that has different qualities or features from the land around it 〔城市或国家之间不同于周边地区的〕走廊,地带
the industrial corridor that connects Querétaro with Mexico City
连接克雷塔罗和墨西哥城的工业地带
3.corridors of powerPOWERthe places where important government decisions are made 权力走廊,权力核心〔指政府的决策场所〕
Examples from the Corpus
corridors of power• Militarystrategistsplotted war scenarios in their air-conditioned corridors of power.• It happens out on the streets, behind closed doors, in corridors of power, in the seat of government.• If a Spencer never quite reached the commandingheights, they certainly walked confidently along the corridors of power.• Equally, who is fighting our case in the corridors of power?• The sound of resolutely clickingheels in the corridors of power have been silenced.• His laziness became a legend in the corridors of power.• Parke doesn't deny it, noting a shift from protestingoutsidebases towards well-manneredlobbying in the corridors of power.• This gave her the entrée into many whisperinggalleries of politics and the drawing-rooms if not the corridors of power.• Her path led from the humblestcorner of Houston to the corridors of power.
down/along the corridor• Away along the corridor from the Colonel's office, a man screamed.• They head back along the corridor.• A couple of the doors furtherdown the corridor were shut, and appeared to be locked.• Sucking in a lungful of coldair, Piper moved once more down the corridor.• I moved down the corridor, as instructed, and rounded the elevators to the bank on the far side.• The others nodded, made agreeable sounds, and drifted off down the corridor.• She opened the door and watched him move off down the corridor.• He got off the elevator and went down the corridor to the juvenilebureau.
Origincorridor
(1500-1600)FrenchOld Italiancorridore, from correre“to run”