hail
verbVerb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they hail | |
| he / she / it hails | |
| past simple hailed | |
| past participle hailed | |
| -ing form hailing |
- [transitive, usually passive]
to describe somebody/something as being very good or special, especially in newspapers, etc. 贊揚（或稱頌）…爲（尤用於報章等） - be hailed (as) something
The conference was hailed as a great success. 會議被稱頌爲一次巨大的成功。 The expedition was widely hailed as a success. 這次探險被廣泛認爲是成功的。 Teenager Matt Brown is being hailed a hero for saving a young child from drowning. 因救起一名溺水兒童，少年馬特 · 布朗被譽爲英雄。 - hail somebody/something as something
Union leaders hailed the socialists’ victory as a huge step forward. 工會領袖們將社會黨人的勝利稱爲一個巨大的進步。
- be hailed (as) something
- [transitive] hail something
to signal to a taxi or a bus, in order to get the driver to stop 招手叫（出租車或公共汽車） to hail a taxi/cab 打手勢叫出租車
- [transitive] hail somebody (literary)
to call to somebody in order to say hello to them or attract their attention 跟…打招呼；向…喊 - [intransitive]
when it hails, small balls of ice fall like rain from the sky 下雹
Word Originverb sense 4 Old English hagol, hægl (noun), hagalian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hagel and German Hagel. verb senses 1 to 3 Middle English: from the obsolete adjective hail ‘healthy’ (occurring in greetings and toasts, such as wæs hæil: see wassail), from Old Norse heill, related to hale and whole.