新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

hail

英  [heɪl]
    

[NOUN, VERB]

    NOUN. 名词
  • 1[U 不可数名词] 冰雹

    Hail consists of small balls of ice that fall like rain from the sky.

    双语例句

    例:

    a sharp short-lived storm with heavy hail.

    一场来去匆匆的大雹暴。

    2[SING 单数型名词] (雹子般的)一阵

    A hail of things, usually small objects, is a large number of them that hit you at the same time and with great force.

    双语例句

    例:

    The victim was hit by a hail of bullets.

    那名受害者被一阵弹雨击中了。

    VERB. 动词
  • hails , hailing , hailed

    1[T 及物动词] 赞颂

    If a person, event, or achievement is hailed as important or successful, they are praised publicly.

    双语例句

    例:

    Faulkner has been hailed as the greatest American novelist of his generation.

    福克纳被赞颂为他那一代人中最伟大的美国小说家。

    2[I 不及物动词] 下冰雹

    When it hails, hail falls like rain from the sky.

    双语例句

    例:

    It started to hail, huge great stones.

    开始下冰雹了,巨大的冰雹!

    3[I 不及物动词] 出生于 , 来自

    Someone who hails from a particular place was born there or lives there.

    双语例句

    例:

    He hails from Memphis.

    他来自孟菲斯。

    4[T 及物动词] 挥手招(出租车)

    If you hail a taxi, you wave at it in order to stop it because you want the driver to take you somewhere.

    双语例句

    例:

    I hurried away to hail a taxi.

    我匆忙离开去挥手招了一辆出租车。

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