pile
pile 英 [paɪl] 美 [paɪl]
n. 堆；大量 v. 累积；堆积
进行时:piling 过去式:piled 过去分词:piled 第三人称单数:piles 名词复数:piles
- A pile is a heap of stuff that keeps accumulating, like the dirty laundry in the back of your closet, or Uncle Scrooge’s money.
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- n. 堆；大量
- v. 累积；堆积
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1. a pile of books, a pile of clothes, a pile of bricks
一摞书籍╱衣物╱砖块
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2. He arranged the documents in neat piles.
他把文件一摞摞地码得整整齐齐。
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3. I have got piles of work to do.
我有大量工作要做。
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4. a deep-pile carpet
一块厚绒地毯
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5. She piled the boxes one on top of the other.
她把盒子一个个地摞起来。
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6. The clothes were piled highon the chair.
衣服在椅子上堆得高高的。
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7. Snow was piled up against the door.
积雪封门。
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8. He piled his plate with as much food as he could.
他把食物猛往自己盘子里堆。
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9. The coach finally arrived and we all piled on.
长途汽车终于开来了，我们一拥而上。
- pile (n.1) "mass, heap," early 15c., originally "pillar, pier of a bridge," from Middle French pile and directly from Latin pila "stone barrier, pillar, pier" (see pillar). Sense development in Latin from "pier, harbor wall of stones," to "something heaped up." In English, sense of "heap of things" is attested from mid-15c. (the verb in this sense is recorded from mid-14c.). The meaning "large building" (late 14c.) is probably the same word.
- pile (n.2) "heavy pointed beam," from Old English pil "stake," also "arrow," from Latin pilum heavy javelin of the Roman foot soldier, literally "pestle" (source of Old Norse pila, Old High German pfil, German Pfeil "arrow"), of uncertain origin.
- pile (n.3) "soft, raised surface upon cloth," mid-14c., "downy plumage," from Anglo-French pyle or Middle Dutch pijl, both from Latin pilus "a hair" (source of Italian pelo, Old French pel). Phonological evidence rules out transmission of the English word via Old French cognate peil, poil. Meaning "nap upon cloth" is from 1560s.
- pile (v.) "to heap up," mid-14c.; see pile (n.1). Related: Piled; piling. Figurative verbal expression pile on "attack vigorously, attack en masse," is from 1894, American English.
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