名詞 bale:

1. a large bundle bound for storage or transport
2. a city in northwestern Switzerland
   同義詞：Basel, Basle

動詞 bale:

1. make into a bale

1. A storm rose, and we had to bale out our boat.
   下起了暴風雨，我們不得不舀出船里的水。
2. The room Jacques and I occupied, though large, was dwarfed by an immense feather bed. It was a bed to end all beds, almost as big as a tennis court and as thick as a bale of hay.
   我和雅克住的房間雖大，但是一張巨大的、鋪羽毛褥墊的床卻使它顯得窄小起來。那床巨大無比，簡直和網球場一樣大，像用一捆捆干草墊起來似地那般厚實。
3. The bale will be coming.
   不幸就要降臨了。
4. The cloth was packed in bales.
   布已經打成包。

bale

n.（名詞）
A large package of raw or finished material tightly bound with twine or wire and often wrapped.
大包，大捆：用線或繩纏繞包裹的原料或成品的大包，經常被包扎起來
v.tr.（及物動詞）
baled,bal.ing,bales
To wrap in a bale or in bales.
捆成大包

來源：
Middle English
中古英語
from Old French * see bhel- 2
源自 古法語 *參見 bhel- 2

【引伸】
bal.er
n.（名詞）

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bale
bale 2

n.（名詞）
Evil:
災禍：
例句：
.Tidings of bale she brought.(William Cullen Bryant)
.她帶來不幸的消息.(威廉·卡倫·布賴恩特)

Mental suffering; anguish:
精神上的痛苦；悲痛：
例句：
.Relieve my spirit from the bale that bows it down.(Benjamin Disraeli)
.從打擊我的痛苦中解脫出來.(本杰明·迪斯累里)

來源：
Middle English
中古英語
from Old English bealu
源自 古英語 bealu