barrel
英 ['bær(ə)l]
美 ['bærəl]
- vt. 把……装入桶内
- n. 桶；枪管，炮管
- vi. 快速移动
- n. (Barrel)人名；(法、意)巴雷尔
CET4 TEM4 IELTS 考 研 TOEFL CET6
1. 之所以叫“木桶”，就是因为最初的桶是用木棍做成的，所以: barr- "bar" + el => barrel.
- barrel (n.)
- c. 1300, from Old French baril (12c.) "barrel, cask, vat," with cognates in all Romance languages (such as Italian barile, Spanish barril), but origin uncertain; perhaps from Gaulish, perhaps somehow related to bar (n.1). Meaning "metal tube of a gun" is from 1640s. Barrel roll in aeronautics is from 1927.
- barrel (v.)
- mid-15c., "to put in barrels," from barrel (n.). Meaning "to move quickly" is 1930, American English slang, perhaps suggestive of a rolling barrel. Related: Barreled; barreling.
- 1. To keep warm they burnt wood in a rusty oil barrel.
- 他们在一只生锈的油桶里烧木柴来保暖。
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- 2. You'll eat so much your belly'll be like a barrel.
- 你会吃得肚子鼓鼓的，像个大酒桶。
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- 3. Pork-barrel politicians hand out rents to win votes and influence people.
- 搞分肥拨款的政客为获得选票、影响民情而发放房租补贴。
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- 4. The suppers are always a barrel of laughs.
- 晚餐总是充满欢笑。
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- 5. Oil prices were closing at $19.76 a barrel.
- 油价收于每桶19.76美元。
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