Vail
[veil]
解释:
(n. & v. t.) Same as Veil.
(n.) Avails; profit; return; proceeds.
(n.) An unexpected gain or acquisition; a casual advantage or benefit; a windfall.
(n.) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; -- usually in the plural.
(v. t.) To let fail; to allow or cause to sink.
(v. t.) To lower, or take off, in token of inferiority, reverence, submission, or the like.
(v. i.) To yield or recede; to give place; to show respect by yielding, uncovering, or the like.
(n.) Submission; decline; descent.
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解释:
v.i. (poet.) to profit avail.—n.pl. Vails money given to servants by a visitor—also Vales.
v.t. to let fall.—v.i. to yield: to drop move down.—n. (Shak.) submission decline.—n. Vail′er.
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例句:
- Hubbard had advertised Bell’s telephone, Sanders had financed it, and now Vail pushed it on the market. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The day before the convention met Morse had arranged with Vail that certain signals should mean that certain candidates had been nominated. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- We have already heard in Morse’s statement of the arrival of Mr. Alfred Vail. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Then Mr. Vail admitted that he was satisfied. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Those were hard times for Vail and the partners back of him. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Vail, formerly one of the Menlo Park staff. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Vail, and Vail accepted the offer. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- That same day he wrote to Alfred Vail that the bill was reached a few minutes before midnight and passed. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The patent was obtained on October 3, 1837, and Vail set to work to prepare the new models. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Vail received the message in Baltimore, and the first demonstration was a complete success. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Prior to the summer of 1837, at which time Mr. Alfred Vail’s attention became attracted to my telegraph, I depended upon my pencil for subsistence. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Then, all but the convention committee being excluded from the telegraph room in Baltimore, message after message was sent over the wire by Vail to Morse and Silas Wright in Washington. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Mr. Vail had charge of the dynamo-room. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- To which must be added his adoption of Alfred Vail's improved alphabet, and Vail's practical suggestions in respect to the recording and other instrumentalities. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The present instrument is in its mechanical form far more the work of Vail than of Morse. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Moreover, the United States government now seemed to have lost interest in the subject, and his partners, the Vails, were having financial difficulties of their own. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
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