hail
hail 英 [heɪl] 美 [hel]
n. 冰雹；致敬；招呼；一阵 vt. 致敬；招呼；向...欢呼；猛发；使像下雹样落下（过去式hailed，过去分词hailed，现在分词hailing，第三人称单数hails） vi. 招呼；下雹
进行时:hailing 过去式:hailed 过去分词:hailed 第三人称单数:hails 名词复数:hails
- Hail is when chunks of ice fall from the sky. Also, to hail someone is to greet them or say good things about them. Or it can be a way to tell people of your homeland, as in: "I hail from the Moon."
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- n. 冰雹；致敬；招呼；一阵
- vt. 致敬；招呼；向...欢呼；猛发；使像下雹样落下（过去式hailed，过去分词hailed，现在分词hailing，第三人称单数hails）
- vi. 招呼；下雹
- int. 万岁；欢迎
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1. He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
他给他们降下冰雹为雨，在他们的地上降下火焰。
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2. He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.
又把他们的牲畜交给冰雹，把他们的群畜交给闪电。
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3. Next they will apply the work to snowfall and hail.
他们下一步将把这套系统应用在预测降雪和冰雹上。
- hail (interj.) salutation in greeting, c. 1200, from Old Norse heill "health, prosperity, good luck," or a similar Scandinavian source, and in part from Old English shortening of wæs hæil "be healthy" (see health; and compare wassail).
- hail (n.) "frozen rain, pellets of ice falling in showers," Old English hægl, hagol (Mercian hegel) "hail, hailstorm," also the name of the rune for H, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz (source also of Old Frisian heil, Old Saxon, Old High German hagal, Old Norse hagl, German Hagel "hail"), probably from PIE *kaghlo- "pebble" (source also of Greek kakhlex "round pebble").
- hail (v.1) "to greet or address with 'hail!,'" also "to drink toasts," c. 1200, heilen; to call to from a distance," 1560s (in this sense originally nautical), from hail (interj.). Related: Hailed; hailing. Bartlett ["Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848] identifies to hail from as "a phrase probably originating with seamen or boatmen." Hail fellow well met is from 1580s as a descriptive adjective, from a familiar greeting; hail fellow (adj.) "overly familiar" is from 1570s. Hail Mary (c. 1300) is the angelic salutation (Latin ave Maria) in Luke i.58, used as a devotional recitation. As a desperation play in U.S. football, attested by 1940. To hail from is 1841, originally nautical. "Hail, Columbia," the popular patriotic song, also was a euphemism for "hell" in American English slang from c. 1850-1910.
- hail (v.2) Old English hagalian "to fall as hail," from root of hail (n.). Related: Hailed; hailing. Figurative use from mid-15c.
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