an idea or activity, especially in politics or business, that suddenly becomes very popular or fashionable, so that a lot of people want to be involved in it (尤指政治上或商业上的)时尚,浪潮,声势浩大的活动
His recent poll victory could start an ultra-nationalist bandwagon rolling. 他在最近民意测验中的胜利可能会掀起一波极端民族主义的浪潮。
jump on/climb on/join the bandwagon:
Every business was trying to jump on the ‘dot-com' bandwagon. 每个企业都在试图追赶潮流建立“网上公司”。
VERB + BANDWAGON | BANDWAGON + VERB | BANDWAGON + NOUN | PREPOSITIONVERB + BANDWAGON➤climb on, join, jump on隨大溜;人云亦云;跟風◇Competitors have jumped on the bandwagon and started building similar machines.競爭對手群起仿效,紛紛開始生產類似的機器。BANDWAGON + VERB➤be rolling, gather momentum, gather pace, sweep along (all especially BrE) 勢不可擋;勢頭日盛;來勢洶洶◇The Scottish Nationalist bandwagon is gathering pace.蘇格蘭民族主義的勢頭越來越猛。◇The globalization bandwagon is gathering momentum.全球化的勢頭日盛。BANDWAGON + NOUN➤effect跟風效果◇There is now a bandwagon effect with more and more companies following the trend.現在是大勢所趨,越來越多的公司跟風而動。PREPOSITION➤on board a/the bandwagon趕時髦;追隨潮流