vale
vale 英 [veɪl] 美 [vel]
n. 谷；溪谷 int. 再见；再会
名词复数:vales
- A vale is a long depression in the land, usually between two hills and containing a river. A vale is a valley.
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- n. 谷；溪谷
- int. 再见；再会
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1. Yet it was in that vale that her sorrow had taken shape, and she did not love it as formerly.
可是，她的悲伤就是在那个山谷里形成的，所以她不像以前那样喜欢它了。
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2. She had hardly ever visited the place, only a small tract even of the vale and its environs being known to her by close inspection.
她从来没有去过那个地方，即使这个山谷和这个山谷附近的地带，她通过就近观察而熟悉的地方只有一小片。
- vale (n.) river-land between two ranges of hills, early 14c., from Old French val "valley, vale" (12c.), from Latin vallem (nominative vallis, valles) "valley" (see valley). Now "little used except in poetry" [Century Dictionary]. Vale of years "old age" is from "Othello." Vale of tears "this world as a place of trouble" is attested from 1550s.
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