bail
bail 英 [beɪl] 美 [bel]
n. 保释，保释人；保释金；杓 vt. 保释，帮助某人脱离困境；往外舀水
进行时:bailing 过去式:bailed 过去分词:bailed 第三人称单数:bails 名词复数:bails
- Bail can be a verb or a noun. When you bail (verb) someone out of jail, you post money, also known as bail (noun), to assure the authorities that person won't try to run away before going to trial.
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- n. 保释，保释人；保释金；杓
- vt. 保释，帮助某人脱离困境；往外舀水
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1. She was the only one granted bail.
她是惟一一个准予保释的嫌疑人。
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2. Her family paid $500 to bail her out.
她家里付了500美元把她保释出来。
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3. Shall I bail her out?
我该保释她出狱吗?
- bail (n.1) "bond money, security given to obtain the release of a prisoner," late 15c., a sense that apparently developed from that of "temporary release from jail" (into the custody of another, who gives security), recorded from early 15c. That evolved from earlier meaning "captivity, custody" (early 14c.). From Old French baillier "to control, to guard, deliver" (12c.), from Latin baiulare "to bear a burden," from baiulus "porter, carrier," which is of uncertain origin; perhaps a borrowing from Germanic and cognate with the root of English pack, or perhaps from Celtic. De Vaan writes that, in either case, "PIE origin seems unlikely." In late 18c. criminal slang, to give leg bail meant "to run away."
- bail (n.2) "horizontal piece of wood in a cricket wicket," c. 1742, originally "a cross bar" of any sort (1570s), probably identical with Middle French bail "horizontal piece of wood affixed on two stakes," and with English bail "palisade wall, outer wall of a castle" (see bailey). From 1904 as the hinged bar which holds the paper against the platen of a typewriter.
- bail (v.1) "to dip water out of," 1610s, from baile (n.) "small wooden bucket" (mid-14c.), from nautical Old French baille "bucket, pail," from Medieval Latin *baiula (aquae), literally "porter of water," from Latin baiulare "to bear a burden" (see bail (n.1)).
- bail (v.2) "to procure someone's release from arrest or imprisonment" (by posting bail), 1580s, from bail (n.1); usually with out. Related: Bailed; bailing.
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