hail
n. 冰雹; 一陣
vi. 下冰雹; 如冰雹般地降下
vt. 致敬; 打招呼; 打訊號示意(計程車等)停下; 讚揚(或稱頌)…為(尤用於報章等)
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...
福克納被譽為他那一代人中最偉大的美國小說家。
US magazines hailed her as the greatest rock'n'roll singer in the world...
美國雜誌把她奉為世界上最偉大的搖滾歌手。
Hail consists of small balls of ice that fall like rain from the sky.
...a sharp short-lived storm with heavy hail.
一陣短暫的大雹暴
When it hails, hail falls like rain from the sky.
It started to hail, huge great stones.
開始下雹,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...
受害者被一陣彈雨擊中。
The riot police were met with a hail of stones and petrol bombs.
防暴警察遭到一陣密集的石塊和汽油彈的襲擊。
Someone who hails from a particular place was born there or lives there.
I hail from Brighton...
我來自布賴頓。
The band hail from Glasgow.
樂團來自格拉斯哥。
If someone or something hails from a particular background, they come from it.
He hails from an affluent background...
他出身於一個富有的家庭。
This is a film which seems to hail from the hippie era.
這看起來是一部嬉皮士時代的影片。
If you hail someone, you call to them.
Jill saw him and hailed him...
吉爾看到了他,並和他打招呼。
Suddenly, a voice hailed us and there was Miss Quigley.
忽然傳來一聲招呼,原來是奎格利小姐。
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.
我趕緊去叫計程車。
Hail is used as a word of greeting.
Hail to the new champion Bengali D'Albret.
向新科冠軍本·賈利·達阿爾佈雷致敬。
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
這些動詞均有"歡迎,致敬,致意,招呼"之意。
hail from
來自或發源於
within hail
在招呼得到的地方;在聽得見的地方
Heavy rain or hail may dislodge many aphids from the plants.
大雨和冰雹可從植株上擊落很多蚜蟲.
Unfortunately, the hail storms reduced the full benefit attained from this extra crop.
遺憾的是, 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.
由於他的出生地點離這裡只有一箭之路,1860年以來的事情他全部記得.
The priest absolved him and told him to say ten hail Mary's.
神父宣告寬恕了他,並要他說十遍萬福瑪利亞.
Hail is a meteoric phenomenon.
下冰雹是一種大氣現象.