音标:[reil] ; 柯林斯词典等级:3 级; 牛津三千核心词汇;
n. 横杆, 围栏, 栏杆, 铁轨, 扶手, 秧鸡
vt. 以横木围栏, 给...铺铁轨
vi. 责骂, 抱怨
n. short for railway
n. a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
n. any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
v. complain bitterly
词型变化:名词复数形式 : rails ; 过去式 : railed ; 过去分词 : railed ; 现在分词 : railing ; 第三人称单数 : rails
考试类型:[高考/四级/六级/考研/托福/IELTS/GRE]
词性分布:
名词94%
动词6%

rail的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. A towel hung from the rail.栏杆上搭著条毛巾。
  2. We installed a stainless steel towel rail on the wall.我们在墙上装了一个不锈钢的挂毛巾的横杆。
  3. Nobody believes that he can jump over that rail.没人相信他能越过那个栏杆。
  4. Hold on to the rail or you'll slip!抓住扶手,不然你会滑倒的。
  5. The man was holding on the rail as he walked down the stairs.下楼梯时,这名男子一直紧抓着扶手。
  6. Passengers mustn't cross the rails.乘客不得横过铁路。
  7. It's cheaper to ship goods by road than by rail.公路运输比铁路运输便宜。
  8. The goods have been consigned (to you) by rail.货物已交由铁路发运(给贵方).
用作动词(v.)
  1. It is better to fight for good than to rail at the ill与其抱怨,不如积善
  2. He used to rail at the volume of paper - work he had to do.他以前老是因为不得不做大量的文牍工作而发牢骚。
  3. He is always railing at his bad luck.他老是抱怨自己运气不好。
  4. She did not rail at her husband.她没有责备丈夫。
  5. Please help me to rail the garden.请帮我用栅栏把花园围起来。
  6. Hundreds of miles were railed out here.这里铺设了数百英里的铁路。

常见句型

用作动词(v.)
用作及物动词S+~+ n./pron.
  1. The cliff edge is dangerous and should be railed.崖边危险,应该用栏杆围起来。

常用短语

用作动词(v.)
rail against〔at〕 (v.+prep.)
    反对(某事); 严厉责骂(某人) express opposition to (sth), usually in bitter words; scold (sb) bitterlyrail against〔at〕 sb/sth

    He's always railing against his wife about her extravagance.

    他总是责怪妻子奢侈浪费。

    It's no good railing against fate, better learn to live with what you have.

    抱怨命运是无济于事的,你最好学会随遇而安。

    He rails at his hard luck.

    他抱怨他的运气不太好。

    A man of character does not rail at his fate.

    一个有志气的人是不会抱怨命运的。

    He used to rail at the volume of paper-work he had to do.

    他以前老是因为不得不做大量的文职工作而大发牢骚。

    He had been railed against by them as a prig and a poseur.

    他们责骂他是一个沾沾自喜、装腔作势的人。

rail in (v.+adv.)
    用栏杆围住… enclose (an area or animal) with a wooden fencerail sth ⇔ in

    They railed the area in.

    他们把那块空地用栏杆围了起来。

    The farmer railed in his orchard.

    农民用栏杆把自己的果园围了起来。

    The children's playground has been railed in so that the children do not wander on to the main road.

    孩子们的操场已用栏杆围在里面,这样孩子们就跑不到主干道上去。

rail off (v.+adv.)
    用栏杆把…隔开 separate (part of sth such as land) with a wooden fencerail sth ⇔ off

    They've railed off the garden.

    他们已经给花园围上了栏杆。

    They have railed the meadows off from the new railway cutting.

    他们已用栏杆把草地和新铁道的路堑隔离开来。

    So many people had fallen into the pond that it had to be railed off.

    有这么多人掉进这水塘,所以只好把它用栏杆隔开。

    This part of the field has been railed off to keep the cattle out.

    这部分地已用栏杆隔开,以防止牲口跑出去。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)
~+名词
  • rail garden围花园
  • rail wall把墙围起来
~+副词
  • rail acidly脾气坏地责骂
  • rail acrimoniously尖刻地责骂
  • rail bitterly难以接受地责骂
  • rail copiously大量地责骂
  • rail fretfully口出怨言地责骂
  • rail furiously怒骂
  • rail monotonously枯燥地责骂
  • rail pitifully可耻地责骂
  • rail relentlessly无情地责骂
  • rail witheringly使人难堪地责骂
  • rail in用栏杆围住…
  • rail off用栏杆把…隔开
  • rail out用栏杆围出
~+介词
  • rail against〔at〕反对(某事); 严厉责骂(某人)

经典引文

  • A gull alighted on the rail of the boat.

    出自:L. Grant
  • The child..rattled the cot rails.

    出自:T. Parks
  • Mother and son went into the small railed garden.

    出自:D. H. Lawrence
  • She railed at me like a woman possessed.

    出自:P. D. James
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