1.Hatsue, carrying a garden shovel and a metal pail rusted through in its bottom, dripped water behind her as she walked the tide flats; she was fourteen and wore a black bathing suit.
英:[peɪl]
美:[pel]
复数:pails
a pail of water一桶水
barrel, bucket
"圆柱形的桶",14世纪中叶, paile,可能源自古法语 paele, paelle "烹饪或煎锅,暖锅"; 也是一种液体度量单位,源自拉丁语 patella "小锅,小碟,盘子",是 patina "宽而浅的平底锅,炖锅"的小型形式(参见 pan(n.))。
这个词的意义演变可能受到了古英语 pægel "葡萄酒容器"的影响,但词源并不支持直接联系。这个古英语词可能来自中世纪拉丁语 pagella "一种度量单位",源自拉丁语 pagella "柱子",是 pagina "纸页,纸张,与其他纸莎草条连接的条形莎草纸"的小型形式(参见 page(n.1))。
Middle English payle, paille
The first known use of pail was in the 14th century
painfuladjective
feeling or giving pain
pain1 of 2noun
punishment sense 2
under pain of death
physical suffering associated with disease, injury, or other bodily disorder
a pain in the back
a basic bodily sensation that is caused by something harmful, is accompanied by physical discomfort (as pricking, throbbing, or aching), and usually makes one try to escape its source
mental distress : grief
plural the suffering experienced during childbirth
plural great care or effort
took pains with their work
pain2 of 2verb
to cause pain in or to : hurt
to give or feel pain
pailnoun
a round container that is open at the top and has a handle : bucket
the quantity held by a pail
fetch a pail of water
1.Hatsue, carrying a garden shovel and a metal pail rusted through in its bottom, dripped water behind her as she walked the tide flats; she was fourteen and wore a black bathing suit.
2.She removes the pails from her plank and hits at something on the grassy bank.
3.It was slow and not all that steady, but Joseph was milking, and soon the sound in the pail wasn’t the sound of milk on metal, but that foamy sound of milk in milk.
4.Brandy doesn’t say anything, but she hands me her pail, which surprises me.
5.She looked to the window where the sand pail dangled, but this was too urgent for that.
6.It was humiliating for a warder to carry his own lunch pail.
7.I half filled it again from the pail; this time I held it and lifted his head a little with my other hand.
8.A stout, grouchy Clock Watcher in a hardhat and a sleeveless flannel shirt, who carried an aluminum lunch pail, said, “I’m knocking off for the day!”
9.“There’s another brush in the pail in that corner. There by the strawberry red. Are you fast?”
10.Her father picked an apple out of the lunch pail Mama had fixed for them.
11.Deep into wet pits of clay, into sticky ditches, up slippery slopes I would struggle with the pail.
12.All day long the round board settled slowly under the weight of the rock, and whey pressed out and ran down the grooves of the board into the pail.
13.The boy scooped up a tin pail of nuts from the big box under the stove and went out to the flat cracking stone.
14.My father looked at the pail and the spilled milk.
15.Consider a small collapsible pail to help carry water.
16.She fills jars, pails, trays; the room assumes the smell of the sea.
17.Above her, Horse and Archer were on the yards with little wooden pails, tarring down the rigging.
18.Squires tossed pails of water over cookfires, while soldiers took out their oilstones to give their blades one last good lick.
19.In a single broad movement, he overturned its contents into his larger pail.
20.I nearly broke my neck on about ten million garbage pails, but I got out all right.
slop pail