英语释义

1. precipitation in the form of small balls or lumps usually consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow

2. something that gives the effect of a shower of hail
a hail of rifle fire

3. to precipitate hail (see hail entry 1)
it was hailing hard

4. to pour down or strike like hail
Bullets were hailing down on them.

5. to greet with enthusiastic approval acclaim
hailed as a great success

6. salute, greet
returning soldiers hailed with parades

7. to greet or summon by calling
hail a taxi

8. to call out especially to call a greeting to a passing ship

9. to be or have been native to or a resident of
She hails from Chicago.

10. an exclamation of greeting or acclamation
greeted the emperor with a hail

11. a calling to attract attention

12. hearing distance
stayed within hail

13. small lumps of ice and snow that fall from the clouds sometimes during thunderstorms

14. volley entry 1 sense 1
a hail of bullets

15. to fall as hail
It's hailing hard.

16. to pour down like hail Confetti hailed on the parade.

17. greet sense 1, welcome The town hailed the returning soldiers.

18. to call out to
I'll hail a taxi.

19. to come from
She hails from Oklahoma.

片语

coming from来自；由……开来

born on出生于（时间）

英汉例句

• You don「t have to hail from the big city and be dripping in diamonds to work in fashion.

  在时尚界工作不是非得要求你来自大城市且全身珠光宝气。

• The Mercs hail from a town in southern Germany called Affalterbach, where Mercedes’s AMG performance division is based.

  奔驰车厂来自德国南方一个叫阿法尔特巴赫的小镇，它的AMG高性能分部也驻扎在那。

• The Hammers have home advantage, having played at Upton Park, 4km from the site, since 1904; Spurs hail from twice as far away.

  汉姆队有着近水楼台先得月的优势，自1904年以来，他们就在距离奥运体育场所在地4千米远的奥普顿公园体育馆比赛，而热刺队的赛场则要远上两倍。

• Remittances from Europe probably provide the region」s main source of income: nearly a third of the 3m-plus Moroccans working in the EU hail from the eastern area.

  这个地区的主要收入来源可能来自欧洲的汇款：在欧洲工作的摩洛哥人有3百多万，其中三分之一来自东部。

• 「As Americans, we hail from every part of the world,」 President Obama says in his proclamation.

  奥巴马总统在公告中说：「我们美国人来自全世界各个地区。」

• Led by John Ehara, Goldman Sachs「s first Japanese partner, it is packed with staff who hail from Goldman Sachs and McKinsey, both paragons of Western capitalism.

  在JohnEhara -高盛第一位日本合伙人-的领导下，这家公司大多数员工都来自高盛与麦肯锡-两家西方资本主义的典范公司。

• Most Hong Kong tycoons or their families hail from neighbouring Guangdong province and made their money in property or manufacturing.

  香港多数企业大亨或其家族均来自邻近的广东省，以地产或制造业发家。

• Tutors direct the students, who so far number 1,000 or so and hail from around the world, to the online courses.

  迄今为止，导师们指导着1000名左右来自世界各地的学生进入网络课堂。

• Many employees in the industry hail from small, conservative communities in India」s vast hinterlands and feel liberated when they come to big cities such as Bangalore or Mumbai.

  该行业的许多职员来自印度广大内陆地区保守的小地方，来到班加罗尔或孟买这样的大城市，让他们感觉像是得到了解放。

• When Clarke「s appointment was announced last year he was expected to be a carbon copy of his former boss: both hail from Liverpool and have spent their entire careers at Tesco.

  当去年宣布克拉克被指定为接班人时，他被认为是他的前任老板的翻版：因为两个人都从利物浦走出来，都在乐购度过了他们全部的职业生涯。

• Both seminars are taught in Spanish, to classes that include many native speakers who hail from Latin American countries like El Salvador and Mexico.

  这两个研讨课程都是以西班牙语教学，教室中有很多母语为西班牙语的学生，他们来自像萨尔瓦多和墨西哥这样的拉丁美洲国家。

• In my limited experience it seems that the greatest number of Manhattan-based New York taxi drivers hail from South Asian, African, Eastern European or Central American countries.

  根据我有限的经验，纽约曼哈顿的出租车司机似乎以南亚、非洲、东欧和中美国家的人为主。

• For that reason alone it makes sense for the head of the institution to hail from the 」emerging「 world.

  仅凭这个原因，让来自新兴市场的代表出任该机构总裁就意义重大。

• There are Japanese hotels dating back to the 8th century, German breweries that hail from the 11th and an Italian bank with roots in the 15th.

  日本酒店可追溯到8世纪，德国啤酒厂的诞生于11世纪，而意大利银行起源于15世纪。

• One of the most popular games for smartphones, for instance, does not hail from the Valley but from Finland.

  例如，智能手机上最热门的一款游戏就来自芬兰，而非硅谷。

• The vast majority of chief executives of big firms hail from one of a handful of grandes écoles, such as école Polytechnique, an elite science school.

  超级公司的绝大多数首席都是少数大学校的成员，像巴黎综合理工学院——一个科学精英学校。

• About 14 percent of foreign students come from India, while 10 percent hail from South Korea, the report says.

  报告表明，约有14%的外国学生来自印度，10%来自韩国。

• 「I didn’t realize there were restaurants like this,」 marveled Spangler to her friends, who hail from Knoxville, Tennessee, and I worked in restaurants for 20 years.

  「我在餐馆里工作了20年，从来不知道还有这样的餐馆。」 ，来自田纳西州洛克思尔的斯潘格勒好奇地对她的朋友说道。

• The reds, ochres and pinks hail from the much slower deposition during the Triassic」s dryer periods, when erosion and oxidation had time to work their magic.

  红、赭、粉等颜色来自三叠纪干燥期缓慢形成的沉积物，在足够长的时间里，侵蚀与氧化作用创造出这种奇迹。

• The nine films on the Academy's shortlist hail from Algeria, Denmark, Canada, Greece, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Spain and Sweden.

  奥斯卡榜上有名的九部电影分别来自阿尔及利亚、丹麦、加拿大、希腊、日本、墨西哥、南非、西班牙和瑞典。

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