an activity that more and more people are becoming involved in 风靡的活动;时尚 Extra ExamplesThe Scottish Nationalist bandwagon is gathering pace. 苏格兰民族主义的势头越来越猛。 The globalization bandwagon is gathering momentum. 全球化的势头日盛。 They seem to have got an anti-government bandwagon rolling. 他们好像兴起了一股反政府潮流。 There is now a bandwagon effect with more and more companies following the trend. 现在是大势所趋,越来越多的公司跟风而动。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + bandwagon- climb on
- join
- jump on
- …
- be rolling
- gather momentum
- gather pace
- …
- effect
- on board a/the bandwagon
Idioms
climb/jump on the bandwagon
- (informal, disapproving)
to join others in doing something that is becoming fashionable because you hope to become popular or successful yourself 赶时髦;追随潮流 politicians eager to jump on the environmental bandwagon 急于随大溜加入环保行列的政客们