Vail
[veil]
解釋/意思:
(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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解釋/意思:
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/造句/用法:
- Hubbard had advertised Bell’s telephone, Sanders had financed it, and now Vail pushed it on the market. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The day before the convention met Morse had arranged with Vail that certain signals should mean that certain candidates had been nominated. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- We have already heard in Morse’s statement of the arrival of Mr. Alfred Vail. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Then Mr. Vail admitted that he was satisfied. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Those were hard times for Vail and the partners back of him. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Vail, formerly one of the Menlo Park staff. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Vail, and Vail accepted the offer. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- That same day he wrote to Alfred Vail that the bill was reached a few minutes before midnight and passed. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The patent was obtained on October 3, 1837, and Vail set to work to prepare the new models. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Vail received the message in Baltimore, and the first demonstration was a complete success. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Mr. Vail had charge of the dynamo-room. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- The present instrument is in its mechanical form far more the work of Vail than of Morse. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
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