impale
impale 英 [ɪmˈpeɪl] 美 [ɪm'peɪl]
vt. 刺穿；钉住；使绝望
进行时:impaling 过去式:impaled 过去分词:impaled 第三人称单数:impales 名词复数:impales
- The verb impale means to pierce an object with a sharp stick. When you're preparing shish kebabs, you impale chunks of marinated vegetables and meat on pointy metal skewers and then cook them on a grill.
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- vt. 刺穿；钉住；使绝望
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1. Not a single arrow I shot ever went anywhere useful, although I did nearly impale my centaur teacher a few times.
我射出的箭，没有一支到达任何有用的地方，尽管我确实有几次几乎刺穿我的半人半马老师。
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2. it fell from my hands. Not a single arrow I shot ever went anywhere useful, although I did nearly impale my centaur teacher a few times.
我射出的箭，没有一支到达任何有用的地方，尽管我确实有几次几乎刺穿我的半人半马老师。
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3. When it passed the Massachusetts-Connecticut border, it made a 30-degree turn, and then an even sharper turn and swooped down on Manhattan, between the buildings, to impale the south tower at 9:06.
飞机飞过麻萨诸塞州和康涅狄格边界后拐了一个30度的弯，接着又转了一个急弯，向曼哈顿俯 冲；飞机穿过曼哈顿林立的摩天大楼，准备着在9:06那一刻刺穿世贸中心南楼。
- impale (v.) 1520s, "to enclose with stakes, fence in" (a sense continued in specialized uses into 19c.), from Middle French empaler or directly from Medieval Latin impalare "to push onto a stake," from assimilated form of in- "into, in" (from PIE root *en "in") + Latin palus "a stake, prop, stay; wooden post, pole," from PIE *pak-slo-, from root *pag- "to fasten." Sense of "pierce with a pointed stake" (as torture or capital punishment) first recorded 1610s. Related: Impaled; impaling.
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