bale

名词 bale:

1. a large bundle bound for storage or transport
2. a city in northwestern Switzerland
   同义词：Basel, Basle

动词 bale:

1. make into a bale

1. A storm rose, and we had to bale out our boat.
   下起了暴风雨，我们不得不舀出船里的水。
2. The room Jacques and I occupied, though large, was dwarfed by an immense feather bed. It was a bed to end all beds, almost as big as a tennis court and as thick as a bale of hay.
   我和雅克住的房间虽大，但是一张巨大的、铺羽毛褥垫的床却使它显得窄小起来。那床巨大无比，简直和网球场一样大，像用一捆捆干草垫起来似地那般厚实。
3. The bale will be coming.
   不幸就要降临了。
4. The cloth was packed in bales.
   布已经打成包。

bale

n.（名词）
A large package of raw or finished material tightly bound with twine or wire and often wrapped.
大包，大捆：用线或绳缠绕包裹的原料或成品的大包，经常被包扎起来
v.tr.（及物动词）
baled,bal.ing,bales
To wrap in a bale or in bales.
捆成大包

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Old French * see bhel- 2
源自 古法语 *参见 bhel- 2

【引伸】
bal.er
n.（名词）

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bale
bale 2

n.（名词）
Evil:
灾祸：
例句：
.Tidings of bale she brought.(William Cullen Bryant)
.她带来不幸的消息.(威廉·卡伦·布赖恩特)

Mental suffering; anguish:
精神上的痛苦；悲痛：
例句：
.Relieve my spirit from the bale that bows it down.(Benjamin Disraeli)
.从打击我的痛苦中解脱出来.(本杰明·迪斯累里)

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Old English bealu
源自 古英语 bealu