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VERB
贊揚(yáng)，稱頌（人、事件或成就）
If a person, event, or achievement is hailed as important or successful, they are praised publicly.
例句
Faulkner has been hailed as the greatest American novelist of his generation...
福克納被譽(yù)為他那一代人中最偉大的美國(guó)小說(shuō)家。
US magazines hailed her as the greatest rock'n'roll singer in the world...
美國(guó)雜志把她奉為世界上最偉大的搖滾歌手。
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N-UNCOUNT
雹子;冰雹
Hail consists of small balls of ice that fall like rain from the sky.
例句
...a sharp short-lived storm with heavy hail.
一陣短暫的大雹暴
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VERB
下雹;下冰雹
When it hails, hail falls like rain from the sky.
例句
It started to hail, huge great stones.
開(kāi)始下雹，而且是很大的雹子。
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N-SING
雹子般的一陣
A hail of things, usually small objects, is a large number of them that hit you at the same time and with great force.
例句
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。
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VERB
（人）生于，來(lái)自
Someone who hails from a particular place was born there or lives there.
例句
I hail from Brighton...
我來(lái)自布賴頓。
The band hail from Glasgow.
樂(lè)團(tuán)來(lái)自格拉斯哥。
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VERB
（人或物）來(lái)自
If someone or something hails from a particular background, they come from it.
例句
He hails from an affluent background...
他出身于一個(gè)富有的家庭。
This is a film which seems to hail from the hippie era.
這看起來(lái)是一部嬉皮士時(shí)代的影片。
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VERB
招呼;喊
If you hail someone, you call to them.
例句
Jill saw him and hailed him...
吉爾看到了他，并和他打招呼。
Suddenly, a voice hailed us and there was Miss Quigley.
忽然傳來(lái)一聲招呼，原來(lái)是奎格利小姐。
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VERB
招呼，叫（出租車）
If you hail a taxi, you wave at it in order to stop it because you want the driver to take you somewhere.
例句
I hurried away to hail a taxi.
我趕緊去叫出租車。
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CONVENTION
致意;致敬
Hail is used as a word of greeting.
例句
Hail to the new champion Bengali D'Albret.
向新科冠軍本·賈利·達(dá)阿爾布雷致敬。