pile
n. 堆; 摞; 大量; 高大建築; 樁; 痔瘡; 絨面
v. 堆放; 裝入; 蜂擁
A pile of things is a mass of them that is high in the middle and has sloping sides.
...a pile of sand...
一堆沙子
...a little pile of crumbs...
一小堆麵包屑
A pile of things is a quantity of things that have been put neatly somewhere so that each thing is on top of the one below.
...a pile of boxes...
一疊盒子
We sat in Sam's study, among the piles of books...
我們坐在薩姆的書房裡,身邊是一堆一堆的書。
If you pile things somewhere, you put them there so that they form a pile.
He was piling clothes into the suitcase...
他在把衣服一件件疊放進手提箱中。
A few newspapers and magazines were piled on a table.
幾份報紙和雜誌堆在桌上。
If something is piled with things, it is covered or filled with piles of things.
Tables were piled high with local produce.
桌上高高堆放著當地的農產品。
...trucks piled with luggage.
塞滿成堆行李的卡車
If you talk about a pile of something or piles of something, you mean a large amount of it.
I've got a pile of questions afterwards for you.
我有一大堆的問題等著過後問你。
...a whole pile of disasters.
災難迭至
If a group of people pile into or out of a vehicle, they all get into it or out of it in a disorganized way.
They all piled into Jerrold's car...
他們一窩蜂地擠進傑羅爾德的車裡。
A fleet of police cars suddenly arrived. Dozens of officers piled out.
突然開來一隊警車,數十個警察一擁而出。
You can refer to a large impressive building as a pile, especially when it is the home of a rich important person.
...some stately pile in the country.
鄉下某座恢宏氣派的建築
Piles are wooden, concrete, or metal posts which are pushed into the ground and on which buildings or bridges are built. Piles are often used in very wet areas so that the buildings do not flood.
...settlements of wooden houses, set on piles along the shore.
建在沿岸樁柱上的木製房屋居住區
Piles are painful swellings that can appear in the veins inside a person's anus.
The pile of a carpet or of a fabric such as velvet is its soft surface. It consists of a lot of little threads standing on end.
...the carpet's thick pile.
地毯的厚絨
Someone who is at the bottom of the pile is low down in society or low down in an organization. Someone who is at the top of the pile is high up in society or high up in an organization.
1. a collection of objects laid on top of each other
2. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
3. a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit);
4. fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
5. battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta
6. a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
7. the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave;
8. a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy
1. arrange in stacks;
2. press tightly together or cram;
3. place or lay as if in a pile;
accumulate, amass, collect, gather, heap, pile
這些動詞均含"積聚,聚集,積累"之意。
pile up
積累,積聚
【非正式用語】 撞車:經歷一次嚴重交通工具相撞
make a (或 one's) pile
(非正式)賺錢,發財
pile arms
架槍
pile it on
(非正式)誇大,誇張
pile on the agony
(非正式)過分渲染(困境)
The pile of books tottered then fell.
這堆書晃了幾下,然後就倒了.
Collect the books and put them in a pile on my desk.
把書收起來放在我的桌子上.
The writer confronted his pile of work with determination.
那作家下決心面對成堆的工作.
A pile of china dishes rested precariously on the head of the acrobat.
雜技演員頭上危險地頂著一疊瓷碟.
A sudden wind swept a pile of leaves in.
突然吹起一陣風,刮進一堆樹葉來.