hails

英 [heɪlz]

美 [heɪlz]

v.  赞扬(或称颂)…为…(尤用于报章等); 招手(请出租车或公共汽车停下); 跟…打招呼; 向…喊
hail的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 赞扬，称颂（人、事件或成就）
  If a person, event, or achievementis hailed asimportant or successful, they are praised publicly.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. The deal was hailed by the Defence Secretary.
     该项协议受到了国防部长的称赞。
• N-UNCOUNT 雹子;冰雹
  Hailconsists of small balls of ice that fall like rain from the sky.
  1. ...a sharp short-lived storm with heavy hail.
     一阵短暂的大雹暴
• VERB 下雹;下冰雹
  Whenit hails, hail falls like rain from the sky.
  1. It started to hail, huge great stones.
     开始下雹，而且是很大的雹子。
• N-SING 雹子般的一阵
  Ahail ofthings, usually small objects, is a large number of them that hit you at the same time and with great force.
  1. The victim was hit by a hail of bullets...
     受害者被一阵弹雨击中。
  2. 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。
• VERB （人）生于，来自
  Someone whohails froma particular place was born there or lives there.
  1. I hail from Brighton...
     我来自布赖顿。
  2. The band hail from Glasgow.
     乐团来自格拉斯哥。
• VERB （人或物）来自
  If someone or somethinghails froma particular background, they come from it.
  1. He hails from an affluent background...
     他出身于一个富有的家庭。
  2. 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。
• VERB 招呼;喊
  If youhailsomeone, you call to them.
  1. Jill saw him and hailed him...
     吉尔看到了他，并和他打招呼。
  2. 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。
• VERB 招呼，叫（出租车）
  If youhaila taxi, you wave at it in order to stop it because you want the driver to take you somewhere.
  1. I hurried away to hail a taxi.
     我赶紧去叫出租车。
• CONVENTION 致意;致敬
  Hailis used as a word of greeting.
  1. Hail to the new champion Bengali D'Albret.
     向新科冠军本·贾利·达阿尔布雷致敬。

双语例句

• They are not responding to our hails.
  他们对我们的信号没回应。
• Flak hails on the plane.
  高射炮火像雹子般轰击飞机。
• This female figure, fashioned out of ivory, hails from the Benin kingdom of Nigeria.
  这件用象牙雕刻出的妇女雕像来自尼日利亚贝南地区。
• When I once discussed the idea of a directly elected European president with a senior official in Brussels, who hails from Finland, he shook his head sorrowfully and said: I just can't imagine Sarkozy campaigning in Lapland.
  我曾与布鲁塞尔一位来自芬兰的高级官员讨论直接选举欧盟主席的想法，当时他沮丧地摇着头说：我完全无法想象萨科齐在拉普兰（芬兰北部省份译者注）举行竞选活动的场景。
• I would much prefer the long [ May Day] week off to get more rest, says Mr. Dai, who works in Zhuhai but hails from distant Sichuan province.
  我还是喜欢（五一的）一周长假，那会有更多的休息时间，戴先生说。他在珠海工作，但来自遥远的四川省。
• There are golf-ball-size hails in New Jersey today.
  新泽西州今日下起高尔夫球大小的冰雹。
• Zhang Tianyi, the restaurant's manager who hails from Hunan, said he had tried the noodles himself but could only finish a quarter of a bowl.
  这家餐馆的经理张天一是湖南人，他说他自己曾经吃过这种米粉，但只吃完了四分之一碗。
• This year on the PGA TOUR, Vijay Singh, who hails from the tiny island nation of Fiji, won three tournaments and the largest prize fund in professional golf.
  今年在美国职业高尔夫巡回赛上，维杰辛格，这个来自斐济小岛国的选手赢得了三站比赛的冠军和职业高尔夫界内最高的奖励基金。
• Mr Saric hails from Pljevlja, in Montenegro, but is a Serbian citizen.
  萨里奇来自黑山共和国的普列夫利亚，但具有塞尔维亚的国籍。
• This negative pressure phase is of short duration. Sometimes it hails during a summer thunderstorm.
  负压周期的延续时间很短。有时，夏天雷雨期间天会下雹。