hail

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

Faulkner has been hailed as the greatest American novelist of his generation. 福尅納被贊頌爲他那一代人中最偉大的美國小說家。

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

...a sharp short-lived storm with heavy hail. …一場來去匆匆的帶著大冰雹的暴風雨。

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

It started to hail, huge great stones. 天空開始下冰雹，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) 一陣

The victim was hit by a hail of bullets. 那名受害者被一陣彈雨擊中了。

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

He hails from Memphis. 他出生於孟菲斯。

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. 揮手呼叫

I hurried away to hail a taxi. 我匆忙離開去揮手招了一輛出租車。

7. V-T to greet, esp enthusiastically (熱烈)歡迎

the crowd hailed the actress with joy

8. SENTENCE SUBSTITUTE an exclamation of greeting 歡迎的喊叫聲[POETIC]