Barrel
['bær(ə)l] or ['bærəl]
解释:
(noun.) a cylindrical container that holds liquids.
(noun.) a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired.
(noun.) any of various units of capacity; 'a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons'.
(noun.) the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold.
(noun.) a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends.
(verb.) put in barrels.
亚伦编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.
(n.) The quantity which constitutes a full barrel. This varies for different articles and also in different places for the same article, being regulated by custom or by law. A barrel of wine is 31/ gallons; a barrel of flour is 196 pounds.
(n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.
(n.) A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
(n.) A jar.
(n.) The hollow basal part of a feather.
(v. t.) To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.
克莱尔手打
解释:
n. a cylindrical wooden vessel made of curved staves bound with hoops: the quantity which such a vessel contains (36 imperial gallons of ale and beer): a certain weight or quantity of other goods usually sold in casks called barrels: anything long and hollow as the barrel of a gun or cylindrical and barrel-shaped.—v.t. to put in a barrel.—n. Bar′rel-bulk a measurement of five cubic feet.—p.adj. Bar′relled having a barrel or barrels: placed in a barrel.—ns. Bar′rel-or′gan an organ in which the music is produced by a barrel or cylinder set with pins the revolution of which opens the key-valves and produces the music; Barrel-vault a vault with a simple semi-cylindrical roof.—adj. Bar′rel-vault′ed.
艾琳校对
娱乐性解释：
See Cask.
手打:西摩
例句:
- Robert Jordan sunk his elbows into the ground and looked along the barrel at the four riders stopped there in the snow. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Upon every barrel of herrings exported, there is, besides, a bounty of 2s:8d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- This exquisite painstaking will be seen still more in the barrel-inspection department, to which we will go now. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- There was a gunsmith in Utica, and he walked there, fifteen miles over the hills, to have his barrel finished. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- When the rod was withdrawn, there was your barrel. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The gunsmith was so impressed by the boy and his accomplishment that, after rifling the barrel, he fitted it with a lock. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- A barrel of herrings is supposed to require about one bushel and one-fourth of a bushel foreign salt. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The amount of petroleum produced in the United States in 1896 was 60,960,361 barrels, the largest yield on record. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Ordinarily the gun has ten barrels, with ten corresponding locks, which revolve together during the working of the gun. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- As constructed to-day it is an enormous vessel (see Fig. 173), capable of holding 7,000 or more gallons, and yielding 250 barrels of sugar at a strike. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- In 1902 the American output of cement was placed at about 21,000,000 barrels, valued at over $17,000,000. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Those on rubber tires with the long barrels? 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- A customer wanted some special barrels with nine bores in a single piece of steel. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- A speculator bridged a couple of barrels with a board and we hired standing places on it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- This was a double-barrelled compliment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- I ask your pardons, Governors,' replied the ghost, in a hoarse double-barrelled whisper, 'but might either on you be Lawyer Lightwood? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Hereunto the ghost again hoarsely replied, in its double-barrelled manner, 'I ask your pardons, Governors, but might one on you be Lawyer Lightwood? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
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