新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

hail

英 [heɪl]

[NOUN, VERB]

词汇频率：

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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