pail

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n. 桶, 提桶

发音

US /peɪl/
UK /peɪl/
US /pʰeɪ̯ɫ/
UK /pʰeɪ̯ɫ/
US /pʰeəɫ/
UK /pʰeəɫ/

词形变化

pails 复数 pails

教材释义与例句

名词

桶，提桶

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).

    The milkmaid carried a pail of milk in each hand.

  2. 2.

    A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

bucket pailful

上位词 2

vessel containerful

下位词 5

kibble cannikin slop-jar slop-pail wine cooler

整体词 1

waterwheel

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English payle (“bucket, pail, milking pail”), of an uncertain origin. Likely from Old English pæġel (“wine vessel, container for liquids, pail; a liquid measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *pagil, from Proto-Indo-European *bak- (“peg, club”), equivalent to peg + -le. Compare West Frisian pegel (“liquid measure, fourth of a litre, half-pint”), German Pegel (“level of liquid, level”), Middle Dutch pegel (“half-pint”), Danish pægl (“half-pint”). Doublet of peil. Alternatively from Old French paielle (“frying pan, warming pan; a liquid measure”), from Latin patella (“small pan, shallow dish, platter”), diminutive of patina (“broad shallow pan, stewpan”). Perhaps a conflation of both.

来源：wiktionary