hail

• n. 冰雹；致敬；招呼；一阵
• vt. 致敬；招呼；向...欢呼；猛发；使象下雹样落下（过去式hailed，过去分词hailed，现在分词hailing，第三人称单数hails）
• vi. 招呼；下雹
• int. 万岁；欢迎
• n. (Hail)人名；(阿拉伯、捷)海尔

来自古英语hals,健康，词源同holy,health.即祝您健康，引申词义欢呼，赞颂。比较汉语万岁，万岁，万万岁。

来自古英语hagol,冰雹，进一步可能来自PIE*kaghlo,小石子，鹅卵石，或来自PIE*kel, 冷，词源同cold,glacier.字母g脱落，拼写演变比较nail,rule.

1. precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents

2. enthusiastic greeting

hail

hail: Not surprisingly, hail ‘frozen rain’ [OE] and hail ‘call out’ [12] are quite unrelated. The former, together with its German and Dutch relative hagel, comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *hagalaz, which is related ultimately to Greek kákhlēx ‘pebble’. The verb hail is closely related to hale and whole. It comes from the noun hail, which in turn was a nominal use of the now obsolete adjective hail ‘healthy’ (preserved in wassail, literally ‘be healthy’). This was borrowed from heill, the Old Norse counterpart of English whole.
=> hale, wassail, whole

hail (interj.)

salutation in greeting, c. 1200, from Old Norse heill "health, prosperity, good luck," or a similar Scandinavian source, and in part from Old English shortening of wæs hæil "be healthy" (see health; and compare wassail).

The interj. hail is thus an abbreviated sentence expressing a wish, 'be whole,' i. e., be in good health, and equiv. to L. salve, plural salvete, or ave, plural avete .... [Century Dictionary]

hail (n.)

"frozen rain, pellets of ice falling in showers," Old English hægl, hagol (Mercian hegel) "hail, hailstorm," also the name of the rune for H, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz (cognates: Old Frisian heil, Old Saxon, Old High German hagal, Old Norse hagl, German Hagel "hail"), probably from PIE *kaghlo- "pebble" (cognates: Greek kakhlex "round pebble").

hail (v.1)

"to greet or address with 'hail!,'" also "to drink toasts," c. 1200, heilen; to call to from a distance," 1560s (in this sense originally nautical), from hail (interj.). Related: Hailed; hailing. Hail fellow well met is from 1580s as a descriptive adjective, from a familiar greeting; hail fellow (adj.) "overly familiar" is from 1570s. Hail Mary (c. 1300) is the angelic salutation (Latin ave Maria) in Luke i:58, used as a devotional recitation. As a desperation play in U.S. football, attested by 1940. To hail from is 1841, originally nautical. "Hail, Columbia," the popular patriotic song, also was a euphemism for "hell" in American English slang from c. 1850-1910.

hail (v.2)

Old English hagalian "to fall as hail," from root of hail (n.). Related: Hailed; hailing. Figurative use from mid-15c.

address, greet, salute, hail, welcome

这些动词均有"欢迎，致敬，致意，招呼"之意。

address：侧重打招呼的方式或指所使用的称谓。

greet：常指友好而热诚地欢迎。

salute：正式用词，指用敬礼、亲吻或挥帽等动作向他人致意或问候，尤指以某种礼节欢迎某人。

hail：主要指怀着敬意欢迎某人，侧重欢快轻松和嘈杂。也指隔得较远的高声招呼。

welcome：多指热情的官方的或正式的迎接或欢迎，但也指一般的欢迎。

Within the wider business world, a man who liked to see himself as a hippy （嬉皮士）, permanently in revolt against big companies, ended up being hailed by many of those corporate giants as one of the greatest chief executives of his time.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

The Paris agreement has been widely hailed as a positive step forward in addressing climate change for all, although the details on addressing climate justice can be best described as sketchy.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

It is tempting to declare the Swedish policies regressive(退步的)and hail the American system as superior.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

This argument has attracted a lot of attention, via the success of the book Race Against the Machine, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, who both hail from MTI's Center for Digital Business.

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

We hail them as Americans in the making, or brand them as aliens to be kicked out.

2013年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

a hail of arrows/bullets

一阵乱箭 / 弹雨

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a hail of abuse

一顿痛骂

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We drove through hail and snow.

我们顶着冰雹和大雪开车。

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His father hailed from Italy.

他父亲出生于意大利。

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It's hailing!

下冰雹了！

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A voice hailed us from the other side of the street.

街对面有个声音招呼我们。

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to hail a taxi/cab

打手势叫住出租车

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Teenager Matt Brown is being hailed a hero for saving a young child from drowning.

因救起一名溺水儿童，少年马特·布朗被誉为英雄。

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The conference was hailed as a great success.

会议被称颂为一次巨大的成功。

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Hail to the new champion Bengali D'Albret.

向新科冠军本·贾利·达阿尔布雷致敬。

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I hurried away to hail a taxi.

我赶紧去叫出租车。

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Suddenly, a voice hailed us and there was Miss Quigley.

忽然传来一声招呼，原来是奎格利小姐。

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Jill saw him and hailed him...

吉尔看到了他，并和他打招呼。

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This is a film which seems to hail from the hippie era.

这看起来是一部嬉皮士时代的影片。

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He hails from an affluent background...

他出身于一个富有的家庭。

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The band hail from Glasgow.

乐团来自格拉斯哥。

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I hail from Brighton...

我来自布赖顿。

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The riot police were met with a hail of stones and petrol bombs.

防暴警察遭到一阵密集的石块和汽油弹的袭击。

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The victim was hit by a hail of bullets...

受害者被一阵弹雨击中。

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It started to hail, huge great stones.

开始下雹，而且是很大的雹子。

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

一阵短暂的大雹暴

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US magazines hailed her as the greatest rock'n'roll singer in the world...

美国杂志把她奉为世界上最伟大的摇滚歌手。

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

福克纳被誉为他那一代人中最伟大的美国小说家。

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Heavy rain or hail may dislodge many aphids from the plants.

大雨和冰雹可从植株上击落很多蚜虫.

辞典例句

Unfortunately, the hail storms reduced the full benefit attained from this extra crop.

遗憾的是, 冰雹降低了大豆的充分效益.

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