Gale
[geɪl] or [ɡel]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
(n.) A moderate current of air; a breeze.
(n.) A state of excitement, passion, or hilarity.
(v. i.) To sale, or sail fast.
(n.) A song or story.
(v. i.) To sing.
(n.) A plant of the genus Myrica, growing in wet places, and strongly resembling the bayberry. The sweet gale (Myrica Gale) is found both in Europe and in America.
(n.) The payment of a rent or annuity.
卡拉校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Breeze, current of air.[2]. Hurricane, tempest, storm.
埃塞尔手打
解釋/意思:
n. a periodic payment of rent.
n. a shrub growing in marshy spots usually called Sweet-gale.
n. a strong wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane: (coll.) a state of noisy excitement.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of being caught in a gale, signifies business losses and troubles for working people.
手打:托马斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Gale suggested that his simple electro-magnet, with its few turns of thick wire, should be replaced by one with a coil of long thin wire. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Mr. Gale went and opened. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It'll blow a gale in the course of the night! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Though he knows,' said Mr. Bounderby, now blowing a gale, 'that there are a set of rascals and rebels whom transportation is too good for! 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- It reefs its sail when a storm threatens or the wind blows pretty hard, and furls it entirely and goes down when a gale blows. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It must be something important which has brought you out in such a gale. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- He explained this to Professor Gale, a colleague at the university, who later testified as to Morse’s work. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Mr. Donne and his guests, as I have said, are at dinner; Mrs. Gale waits on them, but a spark of the hot kitchen fire is in her eye. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The gale had blown itself out next day, but it was a bitter morning when we started upon our journey. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- It is my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have been deceived. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- They shivered in the emotional gale; they obstructed and the gale became destructive. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Mrs. Gale, Mrs. Hogg, and Mrs. Whipp--their respective landladies--affirm that it is just for naught else but to give folk trouble. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Mr. Gale had been a churchwarden, and was indulgent to the clergy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- There is a high gale in that sky, and on this hill-top. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Cooler and fresher at the moment the gale seemed to visit my brow: I could have deemed that in some wild, lone scene, I and Jane were meeting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales had set in with exceptional violence. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The social gales of 1848 had blown, and, it seemed, blown themselves out. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Very long and very severe were the equinoctial gales that year. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The autumn of that year was a stormy one, and there was a long succession of southerly gales. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- I could give many facts showing how frequently birds of many kinds are blown by gales to vast distances across the ocean. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- After three days at sea, terrible gales were encountered and much damage resulted. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The morning-star now stands over the tops of the mountains, and gales and breezes, not of earth, show that the gates of day are unclosing. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- But the equinoctial gales were blowing out at sea, and the impartial south-west wind, in its flight, would not neglect even the narrow Marshalsea. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
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