hail
n. 冰雹; 一阵
vi. 下冰雹; 如冰雹般地降下
vt. 致敬; 打招呼; 打信号示意(计程车等)停下; 赞扬(或称颂)…为(尤用于报章等)
If a person, event, or achievement is hailed as important or successful, they are praised publicly.
Faulkner has been hailed as the greatest American novelist of his generation...
福克纳被誉为他那一代人中最伟大的美国小说家。
US magazines hailed her as the greatest rock'n'roll singer in the world...
美国杂志把她奉为世界上最伟大的摇滚歌手。
Hail consists of small balls of ice that fall like rain from the sky.
...a sharp short-lived storm with heavy hail.
一阵短暂的大雹暴
When it hails, hail falls like rain from the sky.
It started to hail, huge great stones.
开始下雹,而且是很大的雹子。
A hail of things, usually small objects, is a large number of them that hit you at the same time and with great force.
The victim was hit by a hail of bullets...
受害者被一阵弹雨击中。
The riot police were met with a hail of stones and petrol bombs.
防暴警察遭到一阵密集的石块和汽油弹的袭击。
Someone who hails from a particular place was born there or lives there.
I hail from Brighton...
我来自布赖顿。
The band hail from Glasgow.
乐团来自格拉斯哥。
If someone or something hails from a particular background, they come from it.
He hails from an affluent background...
他出身于一个富有的家庭。
This is a film which seems to hail from the hippie era.
这看起来是一部嬉皮士时代的影片。
If you hail someone, you call to them.
Jill saw him and hailed him...
吉尔看到了他,并和他打招呼。
Suddenly, a voice hailed us and there was Miss Quigley.
忽然传来一声招呼,原来是奎格利小姐。
If you hail a taxi, you wave at it in order to stop it because you want the driver to take you somewhere.
I hurried away to hail a taxi.
我赶紧去叫出租车。
Hail is used as a word of greeting.
Hail to the new champion Bengali D'Albret.
向新科冠军本·贾利·达阿尔布雷致敬。
1. precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents
2. enthusiastic greeting
1. praise vociferously;
2. be a native of;
3. call for;
4. greet enthusiastically or joyfully
5. precipitate as small ice particles;
address, greet, salute, hail, welcome
这些动词均有"欢迎,致敬,致意,招呼"之意。
hail from
来自或发源于
within hail
在招呼得到的地方;在听得见的地方
Heavy rain or hail may dislodge many aphids from the plants.
大雨和冰雹可从植株上击落很多蚜虫.
Unfortunately, the hail storms reduced the full benefit attained from this extra crop.
遗憾的是, 冰雹降低了大豆的充分效益.
Born almost within hail of it, he could remember it from 1860 on.
由于他的出生地点离这里只有一箭之路,1860年以来的事情他全部记得.
The priest absolved him and told him to say ten hail Mary's.
神父宣告宽恕了他,并要他说十遍万福玛利亚.
Hail is a meteoric phenomenon.
下冰雹是一种大气现象.