hail /heɪl/ CET4 TEM4 ( hailing, hailed, hails )

• 1. 

  V-T If a person, event, or achievement is hailed as important or successful, they are praised publicly. 称赞 [usu passive]

  例：

  Faulkner has been hailed as the greatest American novelist of his generation.

  福克纳被赞颂为他那一代人中最伟大的美国小说家。

• 2. 

  N-UNCOUNT Hail consists of small balls of ice that fall like rain from the sky. 冰雹

  例：

  ...a sharp short-lived storm with heavy hail.

  …一场来去匆匆的带着大冰雹的暴风雨。

• 3. 

  V-I When it hails, hail falls like rain from the sky. 下冰雹

  例：

  It started to hail, huge great stones.

  天空开始下冰雹，巨大的雹子。

• 4. 

  N-SING A hail of things, usually small objects, is a large number of them that hit you at the same time and with great force. (雹子般的) 一阵

  例：

  The victim was hit by a hail of bullets.

  那名受害者被一阵弹雨击中了。

• 5. 

  V-I Someone who hails from a particular place was born there or lives there. 出生于 [正式]

  例：

  He hails from Memphis.

  他出生于孟菲斯。

• 6. 

  V-T If you hail a taxi, you wave at it in order to stop it because you want the driver to take you somewhere. 挥手呼叫

  例：

  I hurried away to hail a taxi.

  我匆忙离开去挥手招了一辆出租车。

• 7. 

  V-T to greet, esp enthusiastically (热烈)欢迎

  例：

  the crowd hailed the actress with joy

• 8. 

  SENTENCE SUBSTITUTE an exclamation of greeting 欢迎的喊叫声 [POETIC]