rail
rail 英 [reɪl] 美 [rel]
n. 铁轨；扶手，栏杆 v. 怒斥
进行时:railing 过去式:railed 过去分词:railed 第三人称单数:rails 名词复数:rails
- The verb rail means to criticize severely. When you rail against increased taxes at a town meeting, you speak openly and loudly about how wrong the increase is and point out the problems it will cause.
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- n. 铁轨；扶手，栏杆
- v. 怒斥
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1. She leaned on the ship's rail and gazed out to sea.
她靠着船上的护栏，凝望大海。
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2. a picture rail, a curtain rail, a towel rail
挂图画╱窗帘╱毛巾用的横杆
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3. to travel by rail
乘火车
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4. rail travel, rail services, rail fares
铁路旅行╱服务╱车费
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5. a rail network
铁路网
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6. The company has gone badly off the rails in recent years.
这家公司最近几年已经陷于严重瘫痪。
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7. She railed against the injustice of it all.
她大骂此事太不公正。
- rail (n.1) "horizontal bar passing from one post or support to another," c. 1300, from Old French reille "bolt, bar," from Vulgar Latin *regla, from Latin regula "rule, straight piece of wood," diminutive form related to regere "to straighten, guide" (from PIE root *reg- "move in a straight line"). Used figuratively for thinness from 1872. To be off the rails in a figurative sense is from 1848, an image from the railroads. In U.S. use, "A piece of timber, cleft, hewed, or sawed, inserted in upright posts for fencing" [Webster, 1830].
- rail (n.2) "small wading bird," mid-15c., from Old French raale (13c.), related to râler "to rattle," of unknown origin, perhaps imitative of its cry.
- rail (v.1) "complain," mid-15c., from Middle French railler "to tease or joke" (15c.), perhaps from Old Provençal ralhar "scoff, to chat, to joke," from Vulgar Latin *ragulare "to bray" (source also of Italian ragghiare "to bray"), from Late Latin ragere "to roar," probably of imitative origin. See rally (v.2). Related: Railed; railing.
- rail (v.2) "fence in with rails," late 14c., from rail (n.1). Related: Railed; railing.
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