[meɪl] or [mel]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system.
(noun.) the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office; 'the mail handles billions of items every day'; 'he works for the United States mail service'; 'in England they call mail `the post''.
(noun.) the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service.
(noun.) any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered; 'your mail is on the table'; 'is there any post for me?'; 'she was opening her post'.
(verb.) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place; 'send me your latest results'; 'I'll mail you the paper when it's written'.
(verb.) send via the postal service; 'I'll mail you the check tomorrow'.
黛安娜校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A spot.
(n.) A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.
(n.) Rent; tribute.
(n.) A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.
(n.) Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.
(n.) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
(n.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
(v. t.) To arm with mail.
(v. t.) To pinion.
(n.) A bag; a wallet.
(n.) The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter.
(n.) That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.
(n.) A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
(v. t.) To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter.
阿黛尔編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Defensive armor.[2]. Post, conveyance for mailed matter.[3]. Mailed matter.
v. a. Put in the mail, put in the post-office, send by post.
克劳德特錄入
解釋/意思:
n. a bag for the conveyance of letters &c.: the contents of such a bag: the person or the carriage by which the mail is conveyed.—v.t. to put into the mail: to send by mail.—adj. Mail′able capable of being sent by mail.—ns. Mail′-bag a bag in which letters are carried; Mail′-boat a boat which carries the public mails; Mail′-cart a cart in which mails are carried: a small cart with long handles for the amusement of children; Mail′-catch′er an apparatus attached to a mail-carriage to catch up mail-bags while the train is in motion; Mail′-coach -car or -drag the conveyance which carries the public mails; Mail′-guard an officer who guards the public mails; Mail′ing-tā′ble a table used in a post-office in sorting letters; Mail′-train a railway train which carries the public mails.
n. an old French coin—half a denier: rent.—n. Mail′ing a farm.
n. defensive armour for the body formed of steel rings or network: armour generally.—v.t. to clothe in mail: (Scot.) to stain.—adjs. Mail′-clad clad with a coat of mail; Mailed protected by mail.
手打:莎伦
例句/造句/用法:
- The baggage-car was divided into three compartments--one for trunks and packages, one for the mail, and one for smoking. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way, with its three fellow-inscrutables inside. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Two other passengers, besides the one, were plodding up the hill by the side of the mail. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Those firms which had not previously used direct-by-mail advertising were now coming to realize the many advantages of that modern selling short-cut and were compiling large lists of names. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The figures of a horse and rider came slowly through the eddying mist, and came to the side of the mail, where the passenger stood. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- This interest was increased materially with the growth of mail-order businesses and the constantly increasing use of direct-by-mail advertising by business concerns, large and small. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Every morning I had two large baskets of vegetables from the Detroit market loaded in the mail-car and sent to Port Huron, where the boy would take them to the store. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- When the Germans seized Kiau-Chau, he spoke of the German mailed fist. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Our mailed step shall ascend their throne--our gauntlet shall wrench the sceptre from their gripe. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Firms having mailing lists were increasing them. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- And this schedule reaches out into the shipping and mailing departments, so arranging it that the first copies off the press are speeded to the far sections of the country. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Ye have plundered my mails--torn my cope of curious cut lace, which might have served a cardinal! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- They were the decaying skeletons of departed mails, and in that lonely place, at that time of night, they looked chill and dismal. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- She could have made an inquiry or two, as to the expedition and the expense of the Irish mails;it was at her tongue's endbut she abstained. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- The quadruple press of 1887 turned out eight-page papers at a running speed of 18,000 per hour, these being cut, pasted and folded ready for the carrier or the mails. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The only wonder is, that people ain't killed oftener by them Mails. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Was it not he of St Ives whom they tied to an oak-tree, and compelled to sing a mass while they were rifling his mails and his wallets? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- They come a racing out of Lad Lane and Wood Street at twelve or fourteen mile a hour, them Mails do. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
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