英语词汇rail怎么读，是什么意思，单词翻译、读音、固定搭配用法和短语词组及例句-英汉双解词典

rail¹

noun reɪlreɪl

1A bar or series of bars fixed on upright supports or attached to a wall or ceiling, serving as part of a barrier or used to hang things on.
横条，横杆，横档；栏杆，扶手
a curtain rail
Example sentencesExamples
- Within days we had a safety rail on the bathroom wall, another banister, raised lavatory seats and other helpful things.
- Zack stopped and thought, using the rail the on the wall for support.
- I'm keen to try on a frock - there's a pretty little washerwoman's number hanging on a rail in the costume department I've already got my eye on.
- They stood on the beach and lined the south rail of the pier, holding binoculars and cameras, listening to radios, scanning the sky.
- She slowly nodded and took a step forward, holding onto the porch rail for support for she still felt quite weak.
- The stairs were steep and creaking and he held on to the rail bolted to the wall.
- They then hang over the gallery rail and stare into the abyss.
- The Footlights costume ladies would welcome the loan of mobile clothes rails on which to hang the many costumes.
- A rail on the ceiling went around the platform where a curtain could be pulled to hide the bed from view.
- What really surprised us was the expense of the rails to hang the clothes on: they came to £350 just to rent!
- Among the new interior convenience features are roof-mounted rails to support storage bins and a DVD entertainment system.
- A pink hand towel hanging on a rail could be seen from the street.
- Swaying slightly, she clutched the stair rail for support and slowly made her way down, one step at a time.
- The other hand simply rested on the bridge rail, not supporting her as she didn't lean against it.
- Crystal was at the side of the ship, hanging far over the rail and apparently singing to the fish still safe in the ocean.
- The doctor pulled Peter's chart from where it was hanging over the bed rail, and studied it carefully.
- From it, two diagonally projecting arms at the front connect to side rails and support the rear of the engine.
- You can attach the bottom rail to the post by either of the two outside illustrations.
- Next weekend if they have set well we'll hire a nailgun and attach the rails, build and hang the gates and staple the sheep netting.
- A similar situation was narrowly avoided whilst recently affixing a curtain rail to the wall in the lounge.
1. 1.1the rails The inside boundary fence of a racecourse.
  （赛马或赛狗场的）围栏
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dunsdon got his mount back inside the rails and went on to win.
  Phillip did well to stay on him because I thought he was going to go through the rails.
  Ridden by Paul Eddery, Press settled at the rear, then hogged the rails and made good headway but found nothing extra in the last two furlongs.
  But Jamie Spencer urged Oratorio along the rails and edged in front as the three horses drove for the line.
  However in the semi-final it was plain for all to see that he is an inside runner for he moved right over to the rails on the way to the bend.
  Refuse To Bend, who won the 2,000 Guineas last year, was bunched in on the outside of the rails and finished in third place.
  Racing strongly along the rails to the opening turn he quickly shot into a commanding lead that saw him in total control rounding the third bend.
  Richard Hughes and Jewel in the Sand are rewarded for a patient ride up the rails to take the Albany Stakes.
  As he pulled level with Pizarro, Spencer's mount hung right and appeared to squeeze him against the rails.
  Even with one furlong to run, the £232,000 prize was within his grasp, though Kieren Fallon was edging Oratorio off the rails in search of a clear route for his challenge.
  Shes A Whisper was last out of traps on the inside but enjoyed a dream run up the rails which left her clear at the turn.
  The latter held a good position along the rails throughout and in the end it was the deciding factor.
  Racing to the third bend James Fancy got into a challenging position along the rails and quickly set sail for home.
  The race began to develop in the final quarter-mile, with Tony Culhane getting a dream run up the rails a furlong out on the 40-1 shot and setting sail for home.
  He was almost last out of traps but hugging the rails enjoyed a dream run up the inside to lead at the turn.
  Falbrav took the lead along the rails soon after entering the straight, but defending champion High Chaparral responded well to nose just in front approaching the line.
  He brought him down the rails with a superb ride and at ludicrous odds.
  Rod Millman's juvenile failed by just a head and would surely have prevailed had she not drifted off the rails and allowed the winner to come up her inside.
  Kevin Darley pushed the two-year-old on along the rails to beat hot favourite Khelef by a length and three-quarters, with Nevisian Lad running on well for third.
  Interestingly, he watched the race from just beside that winner's enclosure and only had to hop inside the rails - there's confidence for you.
2A steel bar or continuous line of bars laid on the ground as one of a pair forming a railway track.
铁轨，钢轨；轨道，铁路
the goods train left the rails
货车出了轨。
Example sentencesExamples
- Iarnrod says the upgrading of the track to continuous welded rail will improve the reliability, speed and comfort on the route.
- The ordeal began as the result of a tragic accident when a rail worker died after slipping and falling on to the live rail on the main line.
- With 31 trains to keep on the rails, fuelling is a major part of the servicing requirements of the depot.
- The company says it will take up to a week to clear the track and repair damaged rails.
- In recent years, most steel rails from abandoned lines have been sold to China, he said.
- Indian Railways have a substantial length of long and continuous welded rails.
- It should never be forgotten that a steel wheel on a steel rail has one-seventh of the friction of a rubber-tyred wheel on a bitumen surface.
- Electric trolleys, which received their power from an overhead wire and returned it through the rails, provided the system that finally made the horse obsolete.
- Steels in the 0.40 to 0.60% C range are also used for rails, railway wheels and rail axles.
- The impact sheared one of the track rails in two.
- We managed to find a track without electric rails and decided it would be safest to follow that one.
- At St. Croix, we leave the joint line for the rails of Canadian Pacific.
- There are lots of recycled materials, such as steel railroad rails and car windshields used in the mezzanine's balustrade.
- He compelled some fettlers to remove rails from the rail track, because they were expecting a train with a number of police.
- The many-closed branch lines no longer have rails.
- Bromley said most derailments are caused by broken rails, overheated train axles or human error.
- An express train travelling from London to Leeds derailed after a rail broke on the East Coast Main Line track.
- There were reports of trains unable to move, because the rails were greased for miles by the bodies of crushed locusts.
- We strolled the railroad tracks together, laying pennies on the rails and waiting for the train to pass so we could use the flattened coins for guitar picks.
- A railway crash is a serious things and broken rails need to be fixed.
1. 2.1mass noun, often as modifier Railways as a means of transport.
  铁路运输
  rail fares
  火车票。
  travelling by rail
  乘火车旅行。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He and the receiver kept running along the dark expanse of the warehouse roof, making for the elevated tracks of the commuter rail.
  Short line rails are today being threatened due to the use of new, heavier 286,000 pound railcars that have become the industry standard.
  Due to the high price of fuel, rail traffic has been up over the past year.
  There seems to be no end to the problems faced by the Bangalore metro rail project.
  A further 79 per cent of survey respondents believe the government must sanction plans for a high speed metro rail link to the airport.
  The floods of 1999 and 2000 wreaked havoc and seriously affected rail transport in this desperately poor country.
  An efficient metro rail system will not only push the bulk of traffic underground, but also ensure that people use their vehicles sparingly.
  The roads and rails that connect southern Canada with the Northwest Territories sputter into the town and then die.
  The station is one of the city's principal transport interchanges, with rail services, numerous bus routes and York's busiest taxi ranks.
  With the growth in rail travel and motor car ownership, there aren't as many people travelling by ferry anymore.
  These are men who travel the rails taking in all the sights and sounds the world has to offer.
  The golden age of rail travel in the Southwest lives again at a dusty town in eastern Arizona.
  For those of you who ride the rails, feel free to take notes.
  Travellers face disruption by road and rail this weekend as maintenance and upgrading take place.
  Most ports are well linked to local and intercity rail transportation.
  In addition, the two companies have reached an agreement on payment for cargo transportation by rail til 2003.
  If you look at rail safety compared with road safety, it is much safer to travel on the rails.
  They agreed to restrict rail traffic away from travel time for school age children.
  They will also have access through all forms transport - rail or road or metro.
  Joan's father had worked on the railways, so they had enjoyed free rail travel.
3The edge of a surfboard or sailboard.
冲浪板（或帆板的）边缘
Example sentencesExamples
- Most surfers are injured from contact with their own surfboard's side rails and fins.
- You come down through the backwash, you stick your rail in the backwash and do the best you can.
- Rails with hard edges or straight cut rails provide a quicker turn, while softer or more rounded rails tend to be more forgiving.
- I clutched the side rails with white knuckles to keep from being tossed into the air.
- We all agreed it had the feel of snowboarding, like turning from rail to rail, you could almost feel the edge and that's when it was time to start the other turn.
- When the rails are kind of parallel and there's nothing to catch - I've never had that problem.
- They are more manoeuvrable, but you can still draw out the long turns because of the long straight rails.
- The smallest dude on the biggest rails, Evan frontside-bombed the big 18 and lived to tell about it.
- When turns need to be smoothed out and slowed down, get a large slow board, slightly wide and thick, with rounded or egg rails.
- A cutback is a 180 degree turn that's done on either of the two rails of the surfboard.
- Mike Hynson came out with his lower rails that had hard edges from nose to tail.
- I did not glass the rails and this might be another solution.
- OK, now as you approach the rail, do a frontside 180 ollie.
4A horizontal piece in the frame of a panelled door or sash window.
（镶板门或上下推拉窗的）横档，冒头。比较STILE ²
Compare with stile
Example sentencesExamples
- Dowel, glue and clamp the rails and stiles together and allow to dry.
- The trellis was originally backed with pleated silk panels hung between rods attached to the top and base rails of each door.
- Cut stiles equally to the full desired height and cut rails to the full width of the door.
- If your cut exposes the hollow portion of the door, you must reinstall the solid-wood rail from the cutoff.
- The sashes are built from 4 frame components, the top and bottom pieces are called rails and the sides are called stiles.
- Place a combination square or try square over the rail so the blade is in line with the edge of the stile.
- Put wood glue on the stiles, rails, dowels, and the dowel holes.
- The bars were jointed to the stiles and rails using a small mortise with a corresponding tenon in the bar.
- The sash is made up of rails, which are pieces of wood that surround glass panes.
- We originally thought that the smalt might be limited to the stiles and rails, serving as a frame for the raised panels.
- Old windows can be renovated and made draught-proof by fitting brushes to the bottom rail and meeting rails of the sashes.
5Electronics
A conductor which is maintained at a fixed potential and to which other parts of a circuit are connected.
〔电子〕定电位导体轨
the anode must be connected to the positive supply rail
Example sentencesExamples
- The BASH converter in turn converts this gate pulse into a power signal that feeds the power amplifier's main supply rails.
- The beauty of this model is that all we need to do is connect the 3.3V rail to the VDD of one ram slot, which will be shared among all DIMM slots.

verb reɪlreɪl

1with object Provide or enclose (a space or place) with a rail or rails.
给…装横档；用栏杆围
the altar is railed off from the nave
圣坛与中殿之间由栏杆隔开。
Example sentencesExamples
- Going up towards the altar, on the north side standing room is railed off for the rest of the Council who are not lords, and on the south side for the ambassadors.
- Outside is a railed and gravelled front garden, as well as on-street parking.
- Outside, the front garden is railed and features a small lawn with side hedging.
- There is a small, railed lawn to the front and a west-facing garden and patio to the rear.
- The back garden is partially railed and partially fenced and has a block constructed shed.
- There are French doors out to a small railed balcony which overlooks the garden.
- The front garden is railed and has space for off-street parking.
- To the front of the property is a railed lawn garden with perimeter flowerbeds.
- The gardens and paddock to the rear and side of the property are railed and fenced to allow maintenance of pony or other animals.
- There is a railed bedded area to the front of the house, while to the rear, the 75 foot long garden is laid in lawn with mature flowerbeds and a brick-effect patio.
- The small front garden is railed and granite walls enclose a 50 foot long back garden in lawn with a number of mature shrubs, colourful flowering plants, trees and wall creepers.
- The back garden has been laid in patio and also features a timber shed, while the small front garden is railed and has been laid with bricks.
- The front garden is railed and has off-street car parking for one car while the back garden is mainly in lawn.
- She was going to tell him to forget it knowing how her family would be up in arms, but before she could get the words out he tugged her in the living room and to the gold railed stairs.
- A special area in the count centre - directly behind the vote sorters and counters - will be railed off for the tally men and women.
- All of the three-storey Georgian-style properties on offer have a rear garden with a lawn, patio and a shed as well as a small planted and railed area to the front of the property.
- The front garden is railed and includes various flowering plants.
- The courtyard/village houses have railed front gardens and private back gardens and come in a variety of styles.
- The four-bedroom detached house is set amid sheltered gardens and boasts railed paddocks, stables, a swimming pool and hard tennis court.
- Lucy stated that probably the toughest trip was the day they trekked to the Cabumi Falls, where they had to climb a stepped and railed path that was pretty testing.
2with object and adverbial of direction Convey (goods) by rail.
由铁路运送（货物）
perishables were railed into Manhattan
易腐食品由汽车和火车运进曼哈顿。
Example sentencesExamples
- The ore will be railed 107 km to the Geraldton Port.
- They will then move to Te Rapa before they are railed through the Kaimai Ranges to the Port of Tauranga.
- Now instead of calling at Adelaide, they rail goods across from Melbourne.
- During the following five or six weeks hundreds of tons of turf must have been railed out of Bundoran, most days there were three lorries drawing steady.
3no object (in windsurfing) sail the board on its edge.
the more you pull down on the boom, the more you rail

Phrases

go off the rails

informal Begin behaving in an uncontrolled or unacceptable way.
sport saved them from going off the rails as youngsters
Example sentencesExamples
- I know I went off the rails seriously enough, that had my parents been famous, I would have been featured in the pages of National Enquirer.
- The important information is that while he may have gone off the rails in the past, he's clean and sober now.
- He became depressed because of the situation, turned to binge drinking and his life went off the rails.
- He had fully admitted his role in the offences and had seemingly gone off the rails during the period of offences.
- You start looking back and trying to work out reasons why your child is going off the rails.
- He had come into the first team and played a few games at just 16 but like a few of the lads he totally lost the place and went off the rails.
- We have gone right off the rails in this country.
- Given the amount of crime committed by young people, it is sometimes tempting to think that a whole generation has gone off the rails.
- They added he seemed to have gone off the rails and for a ‘bright lad,’ like him, it did not seem right.
- As his acting career began to take off, he began to go off the rails.

on the rails

1Behaving or functioning in a normal or regulated way.
〈非正式〉在轨道上；顺利，顺遂，正常
he is determined to get the club back on the rails
他决心使俱乐部回到正常轨道上来。
Example sentencesExamples
- But we said that sure it was a blip and we would soon start up a new run and get the show back on the rails.
- This gives ailing firms time to get themselves back on the rails.
- It puts us back on the rails and it's great for the team that they were able to turn the result around like that.
- They will be hoping to get their league campaign back on the rails in their next match and it will be back to the training ground for some fine tuning in the interim.
- There was such a big change in Laura after she became ill that I just wanted to do something to get her life back on the rails.
- Most books that aim at putting your life back on the rails have a strong spiritual undercurrent.
- But they do still run an outreach centre for drug and alcohol addicts, and have been successful in putting several lives back on the rails.
- We need to get this company back on the rails before it outsmarts itself into bankruptcy.
- I think I quickly rediscovered a desire to live but hadn't a clue as to how I could get back on the rails.
- One of Glasgow's most innovative theatres is back on the rails after a two year makeover.
2(of a racehorse or jockey) in a position on the racetrack nearest the inside fence.
（赛马，骑师）近内栏，靠内栏
Duffield got himself jammed in on the rails
Example sentencesExamples
- Dettori was out of luck on Godolphin's Inamorato in the following UAE Derby when his mount got trapped on the rails and was repeatedly denied a run until it was too late.
- Kinane managed to extricate his mount from a seemingly impossible position on the rails turning into the straight to swoop late to take the honours by a three-quarter of a length margin.
- In the early stages of this six bend affair Brykat Cherub showed the way to Alices Best but nearing the entrance to the backstretch Pearls Action dashed into the lead on the rails.
- He soon had Sir Michael Stoute's charge on the rails and allowed him to make up the ground steadily, but he could not peg back Kandidate and went down by a length.
- Hills settles the horse on the rails behind pacemaker Shiny but finds himself boxed in and unable to get a run.
- His mount looked beaten coming into the final furlong as Indigo Cat took it up on the rails but dug deep to challenge again.
- At Beverley two outings ago, Ouninpohja was trapped on the rails entering the final furlong but flashed home in third place.
- But he surged to victory on the rails from a furlong out.
- Given a great ride that day by Paul Mulrennan, the four-year-old squeezed through on the rails to get on top inside the final furlong.
- Hanagan's mount got a good run on the rails and he waited for the gaps to come and was rewarded for his patience with his first Goodwood winner.

Derivatives

railage

noun

Although at the end of the day the customer pays the railage, time saved is often more important than a couple of hundred rand a container.

railless

adjective

From 1908, railed electric buses, railless electric buses and power-driven buses appeared successively, ushering in a period of prosperous transportation.
Example sentencesExamples
- Reluctantly, my left hand on the railless wall on that side, my right hand extended out into the blank abyss in the other direction, I began the descent.
- I negotiated the railless stairs and dark corridor without too much injury to my person, and managed to fumble the wooden latch open.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French reille 'iron rod', from Latin regula 'straight stick, rule'.

You might think that trains have no link to the classical world, but the word rail goes back to Latin regula ‘straight stick’, the source also of rule. The first rails that vehicles ran along—pulled then by horses—are described in the account of an English colliery at the end of the 16th century. Before that a rail was a fixed bar forming part of a fence, which in due course gave us both railings (Late Middle English) and the rails of a racecourse. References to railways begin in the late 17th century, followed a little later by railroad, now the American term but at first used in Britain interchangeably with railway. Someone whose behaviour is out of control may be said to have gone off the rails. The phrase is first recorded in 1848, when railways and trains would have been a novelty. Someone who complains bitterly is sometimes said to rail (Late Middle English). This is a completely different word, and goes back ultimately to Latin rugire ‘to roar’ (see also rut).

Rhymes

ail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, bewail, brail, Braille, chain mail, countervail, curtail, dale, downscale, drail, dwale, entail, exhale, fail, faille, flail, frail, Gael, Gail, gale, Grail, grisaille, hail, hale, impale, jail, kale, mail, male, webmail, nonpareil, outsail, pail, pale, quail, sail, sale, sangrail, scale, shale, snail, stale, swale, tail, tale, they'll, trail, upscale, vail, vale, veil, surveil, wail, wale, whale, Yale

rail²

verb reɪlreɪl

[no object]rail against/at/about

Complain or protest strongly and persistently about.
（强烈或反复地）抱怨；责骂
he railed at human fickleness
他怒叱人性之无常。
Example sentencesExamples
- I challenge the members who rail against it to say that if their party were elected to Government, it would wipe out that fourth week of leave.
- Now, having failed to master hip-hop, the musician rails against it.
- At one point, he rails against corporate values standing in the way of good journalism and says broadcasters should be more questioning of things.
- Had those railing against the charges staged a dignified and lawful protest, the likelihood is they would continue to enjoy the support of the general populace.
- The paper constantly railed against complacency and demanded firmer action against the old order.
- In the letter, Traficant rails against the U.S. Department of Justice, which put him in prison until 2009 after successfully convicting him on bribery and corruption charges.
- Ivor can be caustic at times and rails at the dearth of good science in our schools.
- He rails against the ‘dictatorship of relativism’.
- Ishihara rails against everything from the reduction of the time hard-pressed Japanese kids have to spend in school to the country's non-nuclear peace constitution.
- That is why he rails against the corporate bosses who essentially rob the kitty for their own greed and vanity.
- He complained in Parliament that the MP had railed at him on the phone and had called him a ‘scoundrel’.
- Some have described him as a maverick, a colourful figure who rails against the evil of over-centralised administration and unanswerable power.
- I could get worked up about this, but I'm not so much railing against networks ignoring their civic duty as I am railing against human nature.
- Pierce refuses to discuss their departure, but rails at the suggestion that the newly-recruited line-up are just there to make up the numbers.
- This pragmatism continues to inform Republicanism today, giving it the debt-laden, welfarist character Sullivan rails against.
- He rails against the bureaucratisation of livestock farming: lists, registers, rules and artificial standards, all of which waste time and money, and increase both human and animal suffering.
- If you look at his campaign finance reports, you'll see that he has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from the very companies that he rails against.
- Ironically, the point Williams was railing against was that all human behavior is selfishly motivated.
- In fact, I railed about this a few months ago in a post complaining that bloggers seemed all too thrilled to be a cog in the parties’ spin machines.
- He rails against the ‘totally stupid’ tactics of the big airlines, whose response to the current crisis has been to cut staff and ground planes and to increase fares to cover higher costs, such as extra security.
Synonyms
protest strongly at, make a protest against, fulminate against, inveigh against, rage against, thunder against, declaim against, remonstrate about, expostulate about, make a fuss about, speak out against, express disapproval of, criticize severely, denounce, censure, condemn
object to, raise objections to, take issue with, oppose strongly, complain vociferously/bitterly about, disagree violently with, kick against, take great exception to, make/take a stand against, put up a fight against, challenge
informal kick up a fuss/stink about

Derivatives

railer

noun

I do think that the Navy is part of the small government that we railers against big government recognize.
Example sentencesExamples
- He is a major railer against Third World debt and he laudably presented a petition signed by 17 million to the 1999 G8 meeting asking for debt relief.
- It tends to reduce him to the status of a scurrilous railer, despite the fact that some of Jonson's most graceful and humane verses are based closely upon that poet's work.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French railler, from Provençal ralhar 'to jest', based on an alteration of Latin rugire 'to bellow'.

rail³

noun reɪlreɪl

A secretive bird with drab grey and brown plumage, typically having a long bill and found in dense waterside vegetation.
秧鸡
Family Rallidae (the rail family): several genera, especially Rallus, and numerous species. The rail family also includes the crakes, gallinules, moorhens, and coots
Example sentencesExamples
- Apart from coots and related rails, only ostriches and weaverbirds can detect parasitic eggs left by their own species.
- The kagu has long been classified with the gruiform birds, a grab bag of anatomically diverse families such as the familiar cranes and rails.
- I have often regarded the rail as the premier bird of a freshwater marsh, so a marsh without one is to my mind severely lacking.
- And the Airport Marsh harbored a multitude of ducks, coots, egrets, herons, and rails.
- There were no rails or clappers to be found in the heat.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old Northern French raille, perhaps of imitative origin.

rail¹

nounrālreɪl

1A bar or series of bars, typically fixed on upright supports, serving as part of a fence or barrier or used to hang things on.
横条，横杆，横档；栏杆，扶手
Example sentencesExamples
- They then hang over the gallery rail and stare into the abyss.
- What really surprised us was the expense of the rails to hang the clothes on: they came to £350 just to rent!
- The Footlights costume ladies would welcome the loan of mobile clothes rails on which to hang the many costumes.
- I'm keen to try on a frock - there's a pretty little washerwoman's number hanging on a rail in the costume department I've already got my eye on.
- Within days we had a safety rail on the bathroom wall, another banister, raised lavatory seats and other helpful things.
- Next weekend if they have set well we'll hire a nailgun and attach the rails, build and hang the gates and staple the sheep netting.
- Swaying slightly, she clutched the stair rail for support and slowly made her way down, one step at a time.
- A pink hand towel hanging on a rail could be seen from the street.
- From it, two diagonally projecting arms at the front connect to side rails and support the rear of the engine.
- A rail on the ceiling went around the platform where a curtain could be pulled to hide the bed from view.
- Zack stopped and thought, using the rail the on the wall for support.
- Crystal was at the side of the ship, hanging far over the rail and apparently singing to the fish still safe in the ocean.
- You can attach the bottom rail to the post by either of the two outside illustrations.
- The other hand simply rested on the bridge rail, not supporting her as she didn't lean against it.
- She slowly nodded and took a step forward, holding onto the porch rail for support for she still felt quite weak.
- Among the new interior convenience features are roof-mounted rails to support storage bins and a DVD entertainment system.
- They stood on the beach and lined the south rail of the pier, holding binoculars and cameras, listening to radios, scanning the sky.
- The stairs were steep and creaking and he held on to the rail bolted to the wall.
- A similar situation was narrowly avoided whilst recently affixing a curtain rail to the wall in the lounge.
- The doctor pulled Peter's chart from where it was hanging over the bed rail, and studied it carefully.
1. 1.1the rails The inside boundary fence of a racecourse.
  （赛马或赛狗场的）围栏
  Example sentencesExamples
  Richard Hughes and Jewel in the Sand are rewarded for a patient ride up the rails to take the Albany Stakes.
  Racing strongly along the rails to the opening turn he quickly shot into a commanding lead that saw him in total control rounding the third bend.
  Racing to the third bend James Fancy got into a challenging position along the rails and quickly set sail for home.
  The race began to develop in the final quarter-mile, with Tony Culhane getting a dream run up the rails a furlong out on the 40-1 shot and setting sail for home.
  He brought him down the rails with a superb ride and at ludicrous odds.
  Dunsdon got his mount back inside the rails and went on to win.
  But Jamie Spencer urged Oratorio along the rails and edged in front as the three horses drove for the line.
  Falbrav took the lead along the rails soon after entering the straight, but defending champion High Chaparral responded well to nose just in front approaching the line.
  However in the semi-final it was plain for all to see that he is an inside runner for he moved right over to the rails on the way to the bend.
  Shes A Whisper was last out of traps on the inside but enjoyed a dream run up the rails which left her clear at the turn.
  Refuse To Bend, who won the 2,000 Guineas last year, was bunched in on the outside of the rails and finished in third place.
  Interestingly, he watched the race from just beside that winner's enclosure and only had to hop inside the rails - there's confidence for you.
  As he pulled level with Pizarro, Spencer's mount hung right and appeared to squeeze him against the rails.
  The latter held a good position along the rails throughout and in the end it was the deciding factor.
  Kevin Darley pushed the two-year-old on along the rails to beat hot favourite Khelef by a length and three-quarters, with Nevisian Lad running on well for third.
  He was almost last out of traps but hugging the rails enjoyed a dream run up the inside to lead at the turn.
  Phillip did well to stay on him because I thought he was going to go through the rails.
  Ridden by Paul Eddery, Press settled at the rear, then hogged the rails and made good headway but found nothing extra in the last two furlongs.
  Rod Millman's juvenile failed by just a head and would surely have prevailed had she not drifted off the rails and allowed the winner to come up her inside.
  Even with one furlong to run, the £232,000 prize was within his grasp, though Kieren Fallon was edging Oratorio off the rails in search of a clear route for his challenge.
2A steel bar or continuous line of bars laid on the ground as one of a pair forming a railroad track.
铁轨，钢轨；轨道，铁路
trolley rails
Example sentencesExamples
- We strolled the railroad tracks together, laying pennies on the rails and waiting for the train to pass so we could use the flattened coins for guitar picks.
- There are lots of recycled materials, such as steel railroad rails and car windshields used in the mezzanine's balustrade.
- We managed to find a track without electric rails and decided it would be safest to follow that one.
- There were reports of trains unable to move, because the rails were greased for miles by the bodies of crushed locusts.
- The company says it will take up to a week to clear the track and repair damaged rails.
- The impact sheared one of the track rails in two.
- A railway crash is a serious things and broken rails need to be fixed.
- Electric trolleys, which received their power from an overhead wire and returned it through the rails, provided the system that finally made the horse obsolete.
- An express train travelling from London to Leeds derailed after a rail broke on the East Coast Main Line track.
- He compelled some fettlers to remove rails from the rail track, because they were expecting a train with a number of police.
- At St. Croix, we leave the joint line for the rails of Canadian Pacific.
- Steels in the 0.40 to 0.60% C range are also used for rails, railway wheels and rail axles.
- Bromley said most derailments are caused by broken rails, overheated train axles or human error.
- The ordeal began as the result of a tragic accident when a rail worker died after slipping and falling on to the live rail on the main line.
- Indian Railways have a substantial length of long and continuous welded rails.
- Iarnrod says the upgrading of the track to continuous welded rail will improve the reliability, speed and comfort on the route.
- With 31 trains to keep on the rails, fuelling is a major part of the servicing requirements of the depot.
- It should never be forgotten that a steel wheel on a steel rail has one-seventh of the friction of a rubber-tyred wheel on a bitumen surface.
- In recent years, most steel rails from abandoned lines have been sold to China, he said.
- The many-closed branch lines no longer have rails.
1. 2.1often as modifier Railroads as a means of transportation.
  铁路运输
  rail fares
  火车票。
  traveling by rail
  乘火车旅行。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If you look at rail safety compared with road safety, it is much safer to travel on the rails.
  An efficient metro rail system will not only push the bulk of traffic underground, but also ensure that people use their vehicles sparingly.
  They agreed to restrict rail traffic away from travel time for school age children.
  They will also have access through all forms transport - rail or road or metro.
  Joan's father had worked on the railways, so they had enjoyed free rail travel.
  For those of you who ride the rails, feel free to take notes.
  These are men who travel the rails taking in all the sights and sounds the world has to offer.
  Short line rails are today being threatened due to the use of new, heavier 286,000 pound railcars that have become the industry standard.
  The roads and rails that connect southern Canada with the Northwest Territories sputter into the town and then die.
  Most ports are well linked to local and intercity rail transportation.
  In addition, the two companies have reached an agreement on payment for cargo transportation by rail til 2003.
  With the growth in rail travel and motor car ownership, there aren't as many people travelling by ferry anymore.
  There seems to be no end to the problems faced by the Bangalore metro rail project.
  A further 79 per cent of survey respondents believe the government must sanction plans for a high speed metro rail link to the airport.
  Due to the high price of fuel, rail traffic has been up over the past year.
  The floods of 1999 and 2000 wreaked havoc and seriously affected rail transport in this desperately poor country.
  Travellers face disruption by road and rail this weekend as maintenance and upgrading take place.
  The station is one of the city's principal transport interchanges, with rail services, numerous bus routes and York's busiest taxi ranks.
  He and the receiver kept running along the dark expanse of the warehouse roof, making for the elevated tracks of the commuter rail.
  The golden age of rail travel in the Southwest lives again at a dusty town in eastern Arizona.
3The edge of a surfboard or sailboard.
冲浪板（或帆板的）边缘
Example sentencesExamples
- A cutback is a 180 degree turn that's done on either of the two rails of the surfboard.
- I did not glass the rails and this might be another solution.
- I clutched the side rails with white knuckles to keep from being tossed into the air.
- You come down through the backwash, you stick your rail in the backwash and do the best you can.
- When turns need to be smoothed out and slowed down, get a large slow board, slightly wide and thick, with rounded or egg rails.
- Rails with hard edges or straight cut rails provide a quicker turn, while softer or more rounded rails tend to be more forgiving.
- The smallest dude on the biggest rails, Evan frontside-bombed the big 18 and lived to tell about it.
- OK, now as you approach the rail, do a frontside 180 ollie.
- We all agreed it had the feel of snowboarding, like turning from rail to rail, you could almost feel the edge and that's when it was time to start the other turn.
- Most surfers are injured from contact with their own surfboard's side rails and fins.
- They are more manoeuvrable, but you can still draw out the long turns because of the long straight rails.
- Mike Hynson came out with his lower rails that had hard edges from nose to tail.
- When the rails are kind of parallel and there's nothing to catch - I've never had that problem.
4A horizontal piece in the frame of a paneled door or sash window.
（镶板门或上下推拉窗的）横档，冒头。比较STILE ²
Compare with stile
Example sentencesExamples
- Put wood glue on the stiles, rails, dowels, and the dowel holes.
- The trellis was originally backed with pleated silk panels hung between rods attached to the top and base rails of each door.
- If your cut exposes the hollow portion of the door, you must reinstall the solid-wood rail from the cutoff.
- Old windows can be renovated and made draught-proof by fitting brushes to the bottom rail and meeting rails of the sashes.
- The sash is made up of rails, which are pieces of wood that surround glass panes.
- Cut stiles equally to the full desired height and cut rails to the full width of the door.
- The bars were jointed to the stiles and rails using a small mortise with a corresponding tenon in the bar.
- Dowel, glue and clamp the rails and stiles together and allow to dry.
- Place a combination square or try square over the rail so the blade is in line with the edge of the stile.
- We originally thought that the smalt might be limited to the stiles and rails, serving as a frame for the raised panels.
- The sashes are built from 4 frame components, the top and bottom pieces are called rails and the sides are called stiles.
5Electronics
A conductor which is maintained at a fixed potential and to which other parts of a circuit are connected.
〔电子〕定电位导体轨
Example sentencesExamples
- The BASH converter in turn converts this gate pulse into a power signal that feeds the power amplifier's main supply rails.
- The beauty of this model is that all we need to do is connect the 3.3V rail to the VDD of one ram slot, which will be shared among all DIMM slots.

verbrālreɪl

1with object Provide or enclose (a space or place) with a rail or rails.
给…装横档；用栏杆围
the altar is railed off from the nave
圣坛与中殿之间由栏杆隔开。
Example sentencesExamples
- The front garden is railed and includes various flowering plants.
- There are French doors out to a small railed balcony which overlooks the garden.
- Outside is a railed and gravelled front garden, as well as on-street parking.
- All of the three-storey Georgian-style properties on offer have a rear garden with a lawn, patio and a shed as well as a small planted and railed area to the front of the property.
- The back garden is partially railed and partially fenced and has a block constructed shed.
- There is a railed bedded area to the front of the house, while to the rear, the 75 foot long garden is laid in lawn with mature flowerbeds and a brick-effect patio.
- Lucy stated that probably the toughest trip was the day they trekked to the Cabumi Falls, where they had to climb a stepped and railed path that was pretty testing.
- She was going to tell him to forget it knowing how her family would be up in arms, but before she could get the words out he tugged her in the living room and to the gold railed stairs.
- The four-bedroom detached house is set amid sheltered gardens and boasts railed paddocks, stables, a swimming pool and hard tennis court.
- Outside, the front garden is railed and features a small lawn with side hedging.
- A special area in the count centre - directly behind the vote sorters and counters - will be railed off for the tally men and women.
- The back garden has been laid in patio and also features a timber shed, while the small front garden is railed and has been laid with bricks.
- The front garden is railed and has off-street car parking for one car while the back garden is mainly in lawn.
- The small front garden is railed and granite walls enclose a 50 foot long back garden in lawn with a number of mature shrubs, colourful flowering plants, trees and wall creepers.
- The courtyard/village houses have railed front gardens and private back gardens and come in a variety of styles.
- Going up towards the altar, on the north side standing room is railed off for the rest of the Council who are not lords, and on the south side for the ambassadors.
- To the front of the property is a railed lawn garden with perimeter flowerbeds.
- There is a small, railed lawn to the front and a west-facing garden and patio to the rear.
- The front garden is railed and has space for off-street parking.
- The gardens and paddock to the rear and side of the property are railed and fenced to allow maintenance of pony or other animals.
2no object (in windsurfing) sail the board on its edge, so that it is at a sharp angle to the surface of the water.
（风帆冲浪用语）斜板滑行

Phrases

go off the rails

informal Begin behaving in a strange, abnormal, or wildly uncontrolled way.
〈非正式〉行为不轨，越轨；出毛病；神经错乱
Example sentencesExamples
- He had fully admitted his role in the offences and had seemingly gone off the rails during the period of offences.
- We have gone right off the rails in this country.
- I know I went off the rails seriously enough, that had my parents been famous, I would have been featured in the pages of National Enquirer.
- He had come into the first team and played a few games at just 16 but like a few of the lads he totally lost the place and went off the rails.
- They added he seemed to have gone off the rails and for a ‘bright lad,’ like him, it did not seem right.
- As his acting career began to take off, he began to go off the rails.
- He became depressed because of the situation, turned to binge drinking and his life went off the rails.
- You start looking back and trying to work out reasons why your child is going off the rails.
- Given the amount of crime committed by young people, it is sometimes tempting to think that a whole generation has gone off the rails.
- The important information is that while he may have gone off the rails in the past, he's clean and sober now.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French reille ‘iron rod’, from Latin regula ‘straight stick, rule’.

rail²

verbreɪlrāl

[no object]rail against/at/about

Complain or protest strongly and persistently about.
（强烈或反复地）抱怨；责骂
he railed at human fickleness
他怒叱人性之无常。
Example sentencesExamples
- Some have described him as a maverick, a colourful figure who rails against the evil of over-centralised administration and unanswerable power.
- Ironically, the point Williams was railing against was that all human behavior is selfishly motivated.
- He rails against the ‘dictatorship of relativism’.
- He rails against the ‘totally stupid’ tactics of the big airlines, whose response to the current crisis has been to cut staff and ground planes and to increase fares to cover higher costs, such as extra security.
- He complained in Parliament that the MP had railed at him on the phone and had called him a ‘scoundrel’.
- He rails against the bureaucratisation of livestock farming: lists, registers, rules and artificial standards, all of which waste time and money, and increase both human and animal suffering.
- This pragmatism continues to inform Republicanism today, giving it the debt-laden, welfarist character Sullivan rails against.
- At one point, he rails against corporate values standing in the way of good journalism and says broadcasters should be more questioning of things.
- Pierce refuses to discuss their departure, but rails at the suggestion that the newly-recruited line-up are just there to make up the numbers.
- In fact, I railed about this a few months ago in a post complaining that bloggers seemed all too thrilled to be a cog in the parties’ spin machines.
- If you look at his campaign finance reports, you'll see that he has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from the very companies that he rails against.
- Ishihara rails against everything from the reduction of the time hard-pressed Japanese kids have to spend in school to the country's non-nuclear peace constitution.
- Now, having failed to master hip-hop, the musician rails against it.
- I could get worked up about this, but I'm not so much railing against networks ignoring their civic duty as I am railing against human nature.
- Had those railing against the charges staged a dignified and lawful protest, the likelihood is they would continue to enjoy the support of the general populace.
- In the letter, Traficant rails against the U.S. Department of Justice, which put him in prison until 2009 after successfully convicting him on bribery and corruption charges.
- I challenge the members who rail against it to say that if their party were elected to Government, it would wipe out that fourth week of leave.
- The paper constantly railed against complacency and demanded firmer action against the old order.
- That is why he rails against the corporate bosses who essentially rob the kitty for their own greed and vanity.
- Ivor can be caustic at times and rails at the dearth of good science in our schools.
Synonyms
protest strongly at, make a protest against, fulminate against, inveigh against, rage against, thunder against, declaim against, remonstrate about, expostulate about, make a fuss about, speak out against, express disapproval of, criticize severely, denounce, censure, condemn

Origin

Late Middle English: from French railler, from Provençal ralhar ‘to jest’, based on an alteration of Latin rugire ‘to bellow’.

rail³

nounrālreɪl

A secretive bird with drab gray and brown plumage, typically having a long bill and found in dense waterside vegetation.
秧鸡
Family Rallidae (the rail family): several genera, especially Rallus, and numerous species. The rail family also includes the crakes, gallinules, moorhens, and coots
Example sentencesExamples
- I have often regarded the rail as the premier bird of a freshwater marsh, so a marsh without one is to my mind severely lacking.
- The kagu has long been classified with the gruiform birds, a grab bag of anatomically diverse families such as the familiar cranes and rails.
- And the Airport Marsh harbored a multitude of ducks, coots, egrets, herons, and rails.
- Apart from coots and related rails, only ostriches and weaverbirds can detect parasitic eggs left by their own species.
- There were no rails or clappers to be found in the heat.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old Northern French raille, perhaps of imitative origin.

单词	rail
释义	rail¹ noun reɪlreɪl 1A bar or series of bars fixed on upright supports or attached to a wall or ceiling, serving as part of a barrier or used to hang things on. 横条，横杆，横档；栏杆，扶手 a curtain rail Example sentencesExamples Within days we had a safety rail on the bathroom wall, another banister, raised lavatory seats and other helpful things. Zack stopped and thought, using the rail the on the wall for support. I'm keen to try on a frock - there's a pretty little washerwoman's number hanging on a rail in the costume department I've already got my eye on. They stood on the beach and lined the south rail of the pier, holding binoculars and cameras, listening to radios, scanning the sky. She slowly nodded and took a step forward, holding onto the porch rail for support for she still felt quite weak. The stairs were steep and creaking and he held on to the rail bolted to the wall. They then hang over the gallery rail and stare into the abyss. The Footlights costume ladies would welcome the loan of mobile clothes rails on which to hang the many costumes. A rail on the ceiling went around the platform where a curtain could be pulled to hide the bed from view. What really surprised us was the expense of the rails to hang the clothes on: they came to £350 just to rent! Among the new interior convenience features are roof-mounted rails to support storage bins and a DVD entertainment system. A pink hand towel hanging on a rail could be seen from the street. Swaying slightly, she clutched the stair rail for support and slowly made her way down, one step at a time. The other hand simply rested on the bridge rail, not supporting her as she didn't lean against it. Crystal was at the side of the ship, hanging far over the rail and apparently singing to the fish still safe in the ocean. The doctor pulled Peter's chart from where it was hanging over the bed rail, and studied it carefully. From it, two diagonally projecting arms at the front connect to side rails and support the rear of the engine. You can attach the bottom rail to the post by either of the two outside illustrations. Next weekend if they have set well we'll hire a nailgun and attach the rails, build and hang the gates and staple the sheep netting. A similar situation was narrowly avoided whilst recently affixing a curtain rail to the wall in the lounge. 1.1the rails The inside boundary fence of a racecourse. （赛马或赛狗场的）围栏 Example sentencesExamples Dunsdon got his mount back inside the rails and went on to win. Phillip did well to stay on him because I thought he was going to go through the rails. Ridden by Paul Eddery, Press settled at the rear, then hogged the rails and made good headway but found nothing extra in the last two furlongs. But Jamie Spencer urged Oratorio along the rails and edged in front as the three horses drove for the line. However in the semi-final it was plain for all to see that he is an inside runner for he moved right over to the rails on the way to the bend. Refuse To Bend, who won the 2,000 Guineas last year, was bunched in on the outside of the rails and finished in third place. Racing strongly along the rails to the opening turn he quickly shot into a commanding lead that saw him in total control rounding the third bend. Richard Hughes and Jewel in the Sand are rewarded for a patient ride up the rails to take the Albany Stakes. As he pulled level with Pizarro, Spencer's mount hung right and appeared to squeeze him against the rails. Even with one furlong to run, the £232,000 prize was within his grasp, though Kieren Fallon was edging Oratorio off the rails in search of a clear route for his challenge. Shes A Whisper was last out of traps on the inside but enjoyed a dream run up the rails which left her clear at the turn. The latter held a good position along the rails throughout and in the end it was the deciding factor. Racing to the third bend James Fancy got into a challenging position along the rails and quickly set sail for home. The race began to develop in the final quarter-mile, with Tony Culhane getting a dream run up the rails a furlong out on the 40-1 shot and setting sail for home. He was almost last out of traps but hugging the rails enjoyed a dream run up the inside to lead at the turn. Falbrav took the lead along the rails soon after entering the straight, but defending champion High Chaparral responded well to nose just in front approaching the line. He brought him down the rails with a superb ride and at ludicrous odds. Rod Millman's juvenile failed by just a head and would surely have prevailed had she not drifted off the rails and allowed the winner to come up her inside. Kevin Darley pushed the two-year-old on along the rails to beat hot favourite Khelef by a length and three-quarters, with Nevisian Lad running on well for third. Interestingly, he watched the race from just beside that winner's enclosure and only had to hop inside the rails - there's confidence for you. 2A steel bar or continuous line of bars laid on the ground as one of a pair forming a railway track. 铁轨，钢轨；轨道，铁路 the goods train left the rails 货车出了轨。 Example sentencesExamples Iarnrod says the upgrading of the track to continuous welded rail will improve the reliability, speed and comfort on the route. The ordeal began as the result of a tragic accident when a rail worker died after slipping and falling on to the live rail on the main line. With 31 trains to keep on the rails, fuelling is a major part of the servicing requirements of the depot. The company says it will take up to a week to clear the track and repair damaged rails. In recent years, most steel rails from abandoned lines have been sold to China, he said. Indian Railways have a substantial length of long and continuous welded rails. It should never be forgotten that a steel wheel on a steel rail has one-seventh of the friction of a rubber-tyred wheel on a bitumen surface. Electric trolleys, which received their power from an overhead wire and returned it through the rails, provided the system that finally made the horse obsolete. Steels in the 0.40 to 0.60% C range are also used for rails, railway wheels and rail axles. The impact sheared one of the track rails in two. We managed to find a track without electric rails and decided it would be safest to follow that one. At St. Croix, we leave the joint line for the rails of Canadian Pacific. There are lots of recycled materials, such as steel railroad rails and car windshields used in the mezzanine's balustrade. He compelled some fettlers to remove rails from the rail track, because they were expecting a train with a number of police. The many-closed branch lines no longer have rails. Bromley said most derailments are caused by broken rails, overheated train axles or human error. An express train travelling from London to Leeds derailed after a rail broke on the East Coast Main Line track. There were reports of trains unable to move, because the rails were greased for miles by the bodies of crushed locusts. We strolled the railroad tracks together, laying pennies on the rails and waiting for the train to pass so we could use the flattened coins for guitar picks. A railway crash is a serious things and broken rails need to be fixed. 2.1mass noun, often as modifier Railways as a means of transport. 铁路运输 rail fares 火车票。 travelling by rail 乘火车旅行。 Example sentencesExamples He and the receiver kept running along the dark expanse of the warehouse roof, making for the elevated tracks of the commuter rail. Short line rails are today being threatened due to the use of new, heavier 286,000 pound railcars that have become the industry standard. Due to the high price of fuel, rail traffic has been up over the past year. There seems to be no end to the problems faced by the Bangalore metro rail project. A further 79 per cent of survey respondents believe the government must sanction plans for a high speed metro rail link to the airport. The floods of 1999 and 2000 wreaked havoc and seriously affected rail transport in this desperately poor country. An efficient metro rail system will not only push the bulk of traffic underground, but also ensure that people use their vehicles sparingly. The roads and rails that connect southern Canada with the Northwest Territories sputter into the town and then die. The station is one of the city's principal transport interchanges, with rail services, numerous bus routes and York's busiest taxi ranks. With the growth in rail travel and motor car ownership, there aren't as many people travelling by ferry anymore. These are men who travel the rails taking in all the sights and sounds the world has to offer. The golden age of rail travel in the Southwest lives again at a dusty town in eastern Arizona. For those of you who ride the rails, feel free to take notes. Travellers face disruption by road and rail this weekend as maintenance and upgrading take place. Most ports are well linked to local and intercity rail transportation. In addition, the two companies have reached an agreement on payment for cargo transportation by rail til 2003. If you look at rail safety compared with road safety, it is much safer to travel on the rails. They agreed to restrict rail traffic away from travel time for school age children. They will also have access through all forms transport - rail or road or metro. Joan's father had worked on the railways, so they had enjoyed free rail travel. 3The edge of a surfboard or sailboard. 冲浪板（或帆板的）边缘 Example sentencesExamples Most surfers are injured from contact with their own surfboard's side rails and fins. You come down through the backwash, you stick your rail in the backwash and do the best you can. Rails with hard edges or straight cut rails provide a quicker turn, while softer or more rounded rails tend to be more forgiving. I clutched the side rails with white knuckles to keep from being tossed into the air. We all agreed it had the feel of snowboarding, like turning from rail to rail, you could almost feel the edge and that's when it was time to start the other turn. When the rails are kind of parallel and there's nothing to catch - I've never had that problem. They are more manoeuvrable, but you can still draw out the long turns because of the long straight rails. The smallest dude on the biggest rails, Evan frontside-bombed the big 18 and lived to tell about it. When turns need to be smoothed out and slowed down, get a large slow board, slightly wide and thick, with rounded or egg rails. A cutback is a 180 degree turn that's done on either of the two rails of the surfboard. Mike Hynson came out with his lower rails that had hard edges from nose to tail. I did not glass the rails and this might be another solution. OK, now as you approach the rail, do a frontside 180 ollie. 4A horizontal piece in the frame of a panelled door or sash window. （镶板门或上下推拉窗的）横档，冒头。比较STILE ² Compare with stile Example sentencesExamples Dowel, glue and clamp the rails and stiles together and allow to dry. The trellis was originally backed with pleated silk panels hung between rods attached to the top and base rails of each door. Cut stiles equally to the full desired height and cut rails to the full width of the door. If your cut exposes the hollow portion of the door, you must reinstall the solid-wood rail from the cutoff. The sashes are built from 4 frame components, the top and bottom pieces are called rails and the sides are called stiles. Place a combination square or try square over the rail so the blade is in line with the edge of the stile. Put wood glue on the stiles, rails, dowels, and the dowel holes. The bars were jointed to the stiles and rails using a small mortise with a corresponding tenon in the bar. The sash is made up of rails, which are pieces of wood that surround glass panes. We originally thought that the smalt might be limited to the stiles and rails, serving as a frame for the raised panels. Old windows can be renovated and made draught-proof by fitting brushes to the bottom rail and meeting rails of the sashes. 5Electronics A conductor which is maintained at a fixed potential and to which other parts of a circuit are connected. 〔电子〕定电位导体轨 the anode must be connected to the positive supply rail Example sentencesExamples The BASH converter in turn converts this gate pulse into a power signal that feeds the power amplifier's main supply rails. The beauty of this model is that all we need to do is connect the 3.3V rail to the VDD of one ram slot, which will be shared among all DIMM slots. verb reɪlreɪl 1with object Provide or enclose (a space or place) with a rail or rails. 给…装横档；用栏杆围 the altar is railed off from the nave 圣坛与中殿之间由栏杆隔开。 Example sentencesExamples Going up towards the altar, on the north side standing room is railed off for the rest of the Council who are not lords, and on the south side for the ambassadors. Outside is a railed and gravelled front garden, as well as on-street parking. Outside, the front garden is railed and features a small lawn with side hedging. There is a small, railed lawn to the front and a west-facing garden and patio to the rear. The back garden is partially railed and partially fenced and has a block constructed shed. There are French doors out to a small railed balcony which overlooks the garden. The front garden is railed and has space for off-street parking. To the front of the property is a railed lawn garden with perimeter flowerbeds. The gardens and paddock to the rear and side of the property are railed and fenced to allow maintenance of pony or other animals. There is a railed bedded area to the front of the house, while to the rear, the 75 foot long garden is laid in lawn with mature flowerbeds and a brick-effect patio. The small front garden is railed and granite walls enclose a 50 foot long back garden in lawn with a number of mature shrubs, colourful flowering plants, trees and wall creepers. The back garden has been laid in patio and also features a timber shed, while the small front garden is railed and has been laid with bricks. The front garden is railed and has off-street car parking for one car while the back garden is mainly in lawn. She was going to tell him to forget it knowing how her family would be up in arms, but before she could get the words out he tugged her in the living room and to the gold railed stairs. A special area in the count centre - directly behind the vote sorters and counters - will be railed off for the tally men and women. All of the three-storey Georgian-style properties on offer have a rear garden with a lawn, patio and a shed as well as a small planted and railed area to the front of the property. The front garden is railed and includes various flowering plants. The courtyard/village houses have railed front gardens and private back gardens and come in a variety of styles. The four-bedroom detached house is set amid sheltered gardens and boasts railed paddocks, stables, a swimming pool and hard tennis court. Lucy stated that probably the toughest trip was the day they trekked to the Cabumi Falls, where they had to climb a stepped and railed path that was pretty testing. 2with object and adverbial of direction Convey (goods) by rail. 由铁路运送（货物） perishables were railed into Manhattan 易腐食品由汽车和火车运进曼哈顿。 Example sentencesExamples The ore will be railed 107 km to the Geraldton Port. They will then move to Te Rapa before they are railed through the Kaimai Ranges to the Port of Tauranga. Now instead of calling at Adelaide, they rail goods across from Melbourne. During the following five or six weeks hundreds of tons of turf must have been railed out of Bundoran, most days there were three lorries drawing steady. 3no object (in windsurfing) sail the board on its edge. the more you pull down on the boom, the more you rail Phrases go off the rails informal Begin behaving in an uncontrolled or unacceptable way. sport saved them from going off the rails as youngsters Example sentencesExamples I know I went off the rails seriously enough, that had my parents been famous, I would have been featured in the pages of National Enquirer. The important information is that while he may have gone off the rails in the past, he's clean and sober now. He became depressed because of the situation, turned to binge drinking and his life went off the rails. He had fully admitted his role in the offences and had seemingly gone off the rails during the period of offences. You start looking back and trying to work out reasons why your child is going off the rails. He had come into the first team and played a few games at just 16 but like a few of the lads he totally lost the place and went off the rails. We have gone right off the rails in this country. Given the amount of crime committed by young people, it is sometimes tempting to think that a whole generation has gone off the rails. They added he seemed to have gone off the rails and for a ‘bright lad,’ like him, it did not seem right. As his acting career began to take off, he began to go off the rails. on the rails 1Behaving or functioning in a normal or regulated way. 〈非正式〉在轨道上；顺利，顺遂，正常 he is determined to get the club back on the rails 他决心使俱乐部回到正常轨道上来。 Example sentencesExamples But we said that sure it was a blip and we would soon start up a new run and get the show back on the rails. This gives ailing firms time to get themselves back on the rails. It puts us back on the rails and it's great for the team that they were able to turn the result around like that. They will be hoping to get their league campaign back on the rails in their next match and it will be back to the training ground for some fine tuning in the interim. There was such a big change in Laura after she became ill that I just wanted to do something to get her life back on the rails. Most books that aim at putting your life back on the rails have a strong spiritual undercurrent. But they do still run an outreach centre for drug and alcohol addicts, and have been successful in putting several lives back on the rails. We need to get this company back on the rails before it outsmarts itself into bankruptcy. I think I quickly rediscovered a desire to live but hadn't a clue as to how I could get back on the rails. One of Glasgow's most innovative theatres is back on the rails after a two year makeover. 2(of a racehorse or jockey) in a position on the racetrack nearest the inside fence. （赛马，骑师）近内栏，靠内栏 Duffield got himself jammed in on the rails Example sentencesExamples Dettori was out of luck on Godolphin's Inamorato in the following UAE Derby when his mount got trapped on the rails and was repeatedly denied a run until it was too late. Kinane managed to extricate his mount from a seemingly impossible position on the rails turning into the straight to swoop late to take the honours by a three-quarter of a length margin. In the early stages of this six bend affair Brykat Cherub showed the way to Alices Best but nearing the entrance to the backstretch Pearls Action dashed into the lead on the rails. He soon had Sir Michael Stoute's charge on the rails and allowed him to make up the ground steadily, but he could not peg back Kandidate and went down by a length. Hills settles the horse on the rails behind pacemaker Shiny but finds himself boxed in and unable to get a run. His mount looked beaten coming into the final furlong as Indigo Cat took it up on the rails but dug deep to challenge again. At Beverley two outings ago, Ouninpohja was trapped on the rails entering the final furlong but flashed home in third place. But he surged to victory on the rails from a furlong out. Given a great ride that day by Paul Mulrennan, the four-year-old squeezed through on the rails to get on top inside the final furlong. Hanagan's mount got a good run on the rails and he waited for the gaps to come and was rewarded for his patience with his first Goodwood winner. Derivatives railage noun Although at the end of the day the customer pays the railage, time saved is often more important than a couple of hundred rand a container. railless adjective From 1908, railed electric buses, railless electric buses and power-driven buses appeared successively, ushering in a period of prosperous transportation. Example sentencesExamples Reluctantly, my left hand on the railless wall on that side, my right hand extended out into the blank abyss in the other direction, I began the descent. I negotiated the railless stairs and dark corridor without too much injury to my person, and managed to fumble the wooden latch open. Origin Middle English: from Old French reille 'iron rod', from Latin regula 'straight stick, rule'. You might think that trains have no link to the classical world, but the word rail goes back to Latin regula ‘straight stick’, the source also of rule. The first rails that vehicles ran along—pulled then by horses—are described in the account of an English colliery at the end of the 16th century. Before that a rail was a fixed bar forming part of a fence, which in due course gave us both railings (Late Middle English) and the rails of a racecourse. References to railways begin in the late 17th century, followed a little later by railroad, now the American term but at first used in Britain interchangeably with railway. Someone whose behaviour is out of control may be said to have gone off the rails. The phrase is first recorded in 1848, when railways and trains would have been a novelty. Someone who complains bitterly is sometimes said to rail (Late Middle English). This is a completely different word, and goes back ultimately to Latin rugire ‘to roar’ (see also rut). Rhymes ail, ale, assail, avail, bail, bale, bewail, brail, Braille, chain mail, countervail, curtail, dale, downscale, drail, dwale, entail, exhale, fail, faille, flail, frail, Gael, Gail, gale, Grail, grisaille, hail, hale, impale, jail, kale, mail, male, webmail, nonpareil, outsail, pail, pale, quail, sail, sale, sangrail, scale, shale, snail, stale, swale, tail, tale, they'll, trail, upscale, vail, vale, veil, surveil, wail, wale, whale, Yale rail² verb reɪlreɪl [no object]rail against/at/about Complain or protest strongly and persistently about. （强烈或反复地）抱怨；责骂 he railed at human fickleness 他怒叱人性之无常。 Example sentencesExamples I challenge the members who rail against it to say that if their party were elected to Government, it would wipe out that fourth week of leave. Now, having failed to master hip-hop, the musician rails against it. At one point, he rails against corporate values standing in the way of good journalism and says broadcasters should be more questioning of things. Had those railing against the charges staged a dignified and lawful protest, the likelihood is they would continue to enjoy the support of the general populace. The paper constantly railed against complacency and demanded firmer action against the old order. In the letter, Traficant rails against the U.S. Department of Justice, which put him in prison until 2009 after successfully convicting him on bribery and corruption charges. Ivor can be caustic at times and rails at the dearth of good science in our schools. He rails against the ‘dictatorship of relativism’. Ishihara rails against everything from the reduction of the time hard-pressed Japanese kids have to spend in school to the country's non-nuclear peace constitution. That is why he rails against the corporate bosses who essentially rob the kitty for their own greed and vanity. He complained in Parliament that the MP had railed at him on the phone and had called him a ‘scoundrel’. Some have described him as a maverick, a colourful figure who rails against the evil of over-centralised administration and unanswerable power. I could get worked up about this, but I'm not so much railing against networks ignoring their civic duty as I am railing against human nature. Pierce refuses to discuss their departure, but rails at the suggestion that the newly-recruited line-up are just there to make up the numbers. This pragmatism continues to inform Republicanism today, giving it the debt-laden, welfarist character Sullivan rails against. He rails against the bureaucratisation of livestock farming: lists, registers, rules and artificial standards, all of which waste time and money, and increase both human and animal suffering. If you look at his campaign finance reports, you'll see that he has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from the very companies that he rails against. Ironically, the point Williams was railing against was that all human behavior is selfishly motivated. In fact, I railed about this a few months ago in a post complaining that bloggers seemed all too thrilled to be a cog in the parties’ spin machines. He rails against the ‘totally stupid’ tactics of the big airlines, whose response to the current crisis has been to cut staff and ground planes and to increase fares to cover higher costs, such as extra security. Synonyms protest strongly at, make a protest against, fulminate against, inveigh against, rage against, thunder against, declaim against, remonstrate about, expostulate about, make a fuss about, speak out against, express disapproval of, criticize severely, denounce, censure, condemn object to, raise objections to, take issue with, oppose strongly, complain vociferously/bitterly about, disagree violently with, kick against, take great exception to, make/take a stand against, put up a fight against, challenge informal kick up a fuss/stink about Derivatives railer noun I do think that the Navy is part of the small government that we railers against big government recognize. Example sentencesExamples He is a major railer against Third World debt and he laudably presented a petition signed by 17 million to the 1999 G8 meeting asking for debt relief. It tends to reduce him to the status of a scurrilous railer, despite the fact that some of Jonson's most graceful and humane verses are based closely upon that poet's work. Origin Late Middle English: from French railler, from Provençal ralhar 'to jest', based on an alteration of Latin rugire 'to bellow'. rail³ noun reɪlreɪl A secretive bird with drab grey and brown plumage, typically having a long bill and found in dense waterside vegetation. 秧鸡 Family Rallidae (the rail family): several genera, especially Rallus, and numerous species. The rail family also includes the crakes, gallinules, moorhens, and coots Example sentencesExamples Apart from coots and related rails, only ostriches and weaverbirds can detect parasitic eggs left by their own species. The kagu has long been classified with the gruiform birds, a grab bag of anatomically diverse families such as the familiar cranes and rails. I have often regarded the rail as the premier bird of a freshwater marsh, so a marsh without one is to my mind severely lacking. And the Airport Marsh harbored a multitude of ducks, coots, egrets, herons, and rails. There were no rails or clappers to be found in the heat. Origin Late Middle English: from Old Northern French raille, perhaps of imitative origin. noun.1 phr. verb.1 noun.2 rail¹ nounrālreɪl 1A bar or series of bars, typically fixed on upright supports, serving as part of a fence or barrier or used to hang things on. 横条，横杆，横档；栏杆，扶手 Example sentencesExamples They then hang over the gallery rail and stare into the abyss. What really surprised us was the expense of the rails to hang the clothes on: they came to £350 just to rent! The Footlights costume ladies would welcome the loan of mobile clothes rails on which to hang the many costumes. I'm keen to try on a frock - there's a pretty little washerwoman's number hanging on a rail in the costume department I've already got my eye on. Within days we had a safety rail on the bathroom wall, another banister, raised lavatory seats and other helpful things. Next weekend if they have set well we'll hire a nailgun and attach the rails, build and hang the gates and staple the sheep netting. Swaying slightly, she clutched the stair rail for support and slowly made her way down, one step at a time. A pink hand towel hanging on a rail could be seen from the street. From it, two diagonally projecting arms at the front connect to side rails and support the rear of the engine. A rail on the ceiling went around the platform where a curtain could be pulled to hide the bed from view. Zack stopped and thought, using the rail the on the wall for support. Crystal was at the side of the ship, hanging far over the rail and apparently singing to the fish still safe in the ocean. You can attach the bottom rail to the post by either of the two outside illustrations. The other hand simply rested on the bridge rail, not supporting her as she didn't lean against it. She slowly nodded and took a step forward, holding onto the porch rail for support for she still felt quite weak. Among the new interior convenience features are roof-mounted rails to support storage bins and a DVD entertainment system. They stood on the beach and lined the south rail of the pier, holding binoculars and cameras, listening to radios, scanning the sky. The stairs were steep and creaking and he held on to the rail bolted to the wall. A similar situation was narrowly avoided whilst recently affixing a curtain rail to the wall in the lounge. The doctor pulled Peter's chart from where it was hanging over the bed rail, and studied it carefully. 1.1the rails The inside boundary fence of a racecourse. （赛马或赛狗场的）围栏 Example sentencesExamples Richard Hughes and Jewel in the Sand are rewarded for a patient ride up the rails to take the Albany Stakes. Racing strongly along the rails to the opening turn he quickly shot into a commanding lead that saw him in total control rounding the third bend. Racing to the third bend James Fancy got into a challenging position along the rails and quickly set sail for home. The race began to develop in the final quarter-mile, with Tony Culhane getting a dream run up the rails a furlong out on the 40-1 shot and setting sail for home. He brought him down the rails with a superb ride and at ludicrous odds. Dunsdon got his mount back inside the rails and went on to win. But Jamie Spencer urged Oratorio along the rails and edged in front as the three horses drove for the line. Falbrav took the lead along the rails soon after entering the straight, but defending champion High Chaparral responded well to nose just in front approaching the line. However in the semi-final it was plain for all to see that he is an inside runner for he moved right over to the rails on the way to the bend. Shes A Whisper was last out of traps on the inside but enjoyed a dream run up the rails which left her clear at the turn. Refuse To Bend, who won the 2,000 Guineas last year, was bunched in on the outside of the rails and finished in third place. Interestingly, he watched the race from just beside that winner's enclosure and only had to hop inside the rails - there's confidence for you. As he pulled level with Pizarro, Spencer's mount hung right and appeared to squeeze him against the rails. The latter held a good position along the rails throughout and in the end it was the deciding factor. Kevin Darley pushed the two-year-old on along the rails to beat hot favourite Khelef by a length and three-quarters, with Nevisian Lad running on well for third. He was almost last out of traps but hugging the rails enjoyed a dream run up the inside to lead at the turn. Phillip did well to stay on him because I thought he was going to go through the rails. Ridden by Paul Eddery, Press settled at the rear, then hogged the rails and made good headway but found nothing extra in the last two furlongs. Rod Millman's juvenile failed by just a head and would surely have prevailed had she not drifted off the rails and allowed the winner to come up her inside. Even with one furlong to run, the £232,000 prize was within his grasp, though Kieren Fallon was edging Oratorio off the rails in search of a clear route for his challenge. 2A steel bar or continuous line of bars laid on the ground as one of a pair forming a railroad track. 铁轨，钢轨；轨道，铁路 trolley rails Example sentencesExamples We strolled the railroad tracks together, laying pennies on the rails and waiting for the train to pass so we could use the flattened coins for guitar picks. There are lots of recycled materials, such as steel railroad rails and car windshields used in the mezzanine's balustrade. We managed to find a track without electric rails and decided it would be safest to follow that one. There were reports of trains unable to move, because the rails were greased for miles by the bodies of crushed locusts. The company says it will take up to a week to clear the track and repair damaged rails. The impact sheared one of the track rails in two. A railway crash is a serious things and broken rails need to be fixed. Electric trolleys, which received their power from an overhead wire and returned it through the rails, provided the system that finally made the horse obsolete. An express train travelling from London to Leeds derailed after a rail broke on the East Coast Main Line track. He compelled some fettlers to remove rails from the rail track, because they were expecting a train with a number of police. At St. Croix, we leave the joint line for the rails of Canadian Pacific. Steels in the 0.40 to 0.60% C range are also used for rails, railway wheels and rail axles. Bromley said most derailments are caused by broken rails, overheated train axles or human error. The ordeal began as the result of a tragic accident when a rail worker died after slipping and falling on to the live rail on the main line. Indian Railways have a substantial length of long and continuous welded rails. Iarnrod says the upgrading of the track to continuous welded rail will improve the reliability, speed and comfort on the route. With 31 trains to keep on the rails, fuelling is a major part of the servicing requirements of the depot. It should never be forgotten that a steel wheel on a steel rail has one-seventh of the friction of a rubber-tyred wheel on a bitumen surface. In recent years, most steel rails from abandoned lines have been sold to China, he said. The many-closed branch lines no longer have rails. 2.1often as modifier Railroads as a means of transportation. 铁路运输 rail fares 火车票。 traveling by rail 乘火车旅行。 Example sentencesExamples If you look at rail safety compared with road safety, it is much safer to travel on the rails. An efficient metro rail system will not only push the bulk of traffic underground, but also ensure that people use their vehicles sparingly. They agreed to restrict rail traffic away from travel time for school age children. They will also have access through all forms transport - rail or road or metro. Joan's father had worked on the railways, so they had enjoyed free rail travel. For those of you who ride the rails, feel free to take notes. These are men who travel the rails taking in all the sights and sounds the world has to offer. Short line rails are today being threatened due to the use of new, heavier 286,000 pound railcars that have become the industry standard. The roads and rails that connect southern Canada with the Northwest Territories sputter into the town and then die. Most ports are well linked to local and intercity rail transportation. In addition, the two companies have reached an agreement on payment for cargo transportation by rail til 2003. With the growth in rail travel and motor car ownership, there aren't as many people travelling by ferry anymore. There seems to be no end to the problems faced by the Bangalore metro rail project. A further 79 per cent of survey respondents believe the government must sanction plans for a high speed metro rail link to the airport. Due to the high price of fuel, rail traffic has been up over the past year. The floods of 1999 and 2000 wreaked havoc and seriously affected rail transport in this desperately poor country. Travellers face disruption by road and rail this weekend as maintenance and upgrading take place. The station is one of the city's principal transport interchanges, with rail services, numerous bus routes and York's busiest taxi ranks. He and the receiver kept running along the dark expanse of the warehouse roof, making for the elevated tracks of the commuter rail. The golden age of rail travel in the Southwest lives again at a dusty town in eastern Arizona. 3The edge of a surfboard or sailboard. 冲浪板（或帆板的）边缘 Example sentencesExamples A cutback is a 180 degree turn that's done on either of the two rails of the surfboard. I did not glass the rails and this might be another solution. I clutched the side rails with white knuckles to keep from being tossed into the air. You come down through the backwash, you stick your rail in the backwash and do the best you can. When turns need to be smoothed out and slowed down, get a large slow board, slightly wide and thick, with rounded or egg rails. Rails with hard edges or straight cut rails provide a quicker turn, while softer or more rounded rails tend to be more forgiving. The smallest dude on the biggest rails, Evan frontside-bombed the big 18 and lived to tell about it. OK, now as you approach the rail, do a frontside 180 ollie. We all agreed it had the feel of snowboarding, like turning from rail to rail, you could almost feel the edge and that's when it was time to start the other turn. Most surfers are injured from contact with their own surfboard's side rails and fins. They are more manoeuvrable, but you can still draw out the long turns because of the long straight rails. Mike Hynson came out with his lower rails that had hard edges from nose to tail. When the rails are kind of parallel and there's nothing to catch - I've never had that problem. 4A horizontal piece in the frame of a paneled door or sash window. （镶板门或上下推拉窗的）横档，冒头。比较STILE ² Compare with stile Example sentencesExamples Put wood glue on the stiles, rails, dowels, and the dowel holes. The trellis was originally backed with pleated silk panels hung between rods attached to the top and base rails of each door. If your cut exposes the hollow portion of the door, you must reinstall the solid-wood rail from the cutoff. Old windows can be renovated and made draught-proof by fitting brushes to the bottom rail and meeting rails of the sashes. The sash is made up of rails, which are pieces of wood that surround glass panes. Cut stiles equally to the full desired height and cut rails to the full width of the door. The bars were jointed to the stiles and rails using a small mortise with a corresponding tenon in the bar. Dowel, glue and clamp the rails and stiles together and allow to dry. Place a combination square or try square over the rail so the blade is in line with the edge of the stile. We originally thought that the smalt might be limited to the stiles and rails, serving as a frame for the raised panels. The sashes are built from 4 frame components, the top and bottom pieces are called rails and the sides are called stiles. 5Electronics A conductor which is maintained at a fixed potential and to which other parts of a circuit are connected. 〔电子〕定电位导体轨 Example sentencesExamples The BASH converter in turn converts this gate pulse into a power signal that feeds the power amplifier's main supply rails. The beauty of this model is that all we need to do is connect the 3.3V rail to the VDD of one ram slot, which will be shared among all DIMM slots. verbrālreɪl 1with object Provide or enclose (a space or place) with a rail or rails. 给…装横档；用栏杆围 the altar is railed off from the nave 圣坛与中殿之间由栏杆隔开。 Example sentencesExamples The front garden is railed and includes various flowering plants. There are French doors out to a small railed balcony which overlooks the garden. Outside is a railed and gravelled front garden, as well as on-street parking. All of the three-storey Georgian-style properties on offer have a rear garden with a lawn, patio and a shed as well as a small planted and railed area to the front of the property. The back garden is partially railed and partially fenced and has a block constructed shed. There is a railed bedded area to the front of the house, while to the rear, the 75 foot long garden is laid in lawn with mature flowerbeds and a brick-effect patio. Lucy stated that probably the toughest trip was the day they trekked to the Cabumi Falls, where they had to climb a stepped and railed path that was pretty testing. She was going to tell him to forget it knowing how her family would be up in arms, but before she could get the words out he tugged her in the living room and to the gold railed stairs. The four-bedroom detached house is set amid sheltered gardens and boasts railed paddocks, stables, a swimming pool and hard tennis court. Outside, the front garden is railed and features a small lawn with side hedging. A special area in the count centre - directly behind the vote sorters and counters - will be railed off for the tally men and women. The back garden has been laid in patio and also features a timber shed, while the small front garden is railed and has been laid with bricks. The front garden is railed and has off-street car parking for one car while the back garden is mainly in lawn. The small front garden is railed and granite walls enclose a 50 foot long back garden in lawn with a number of mature shrubs, colourful flowering plants, trees and wall creepers. The courtyard/village houses have railed front gardens and private back gardens and come in a variety of styles. Going up towards the altar, on the north side standing room is railed off for the rest of the Council who are not lords, and on the south side for the ambassadors. To the front of the property is a railed lawn garden with perimeter flowerbeds. There is a small, railed lawn to the front and a west-facing garden and patio to the rear. The front garden is railed and has space for off-street parking. The gardens and paddock to the rear and side of the property are railed and fenced to allow maintenance of pony or other animals. 2no object (in windsurfing) sail the board on its edge, so that it is at a sharp angle to the surface of the water. （风帆冲浪用语）斜板滑行 Phrases go off the rails informal Begin behaving in a strange, abnormal, or wildly uncontrolled way. 〈非正式〉行为不轨，越轨；出毛病；神经错乱 Example sentencesExamples He had fully admitted his role in the offences and had seemingly gone off the rails during the period of offences. We have gone right off the rails in this country. I know I went off the rails seriously enough, that had my parents been famous, I would have been featured in the pages of National Enquirer. He had come into the first team and played a few games at just 16 but like a few of the lads he totally lost the place and went off the rails. They added he seemed to have gone off the rails and for a ‘bright lad,’ like him, it did not seem right. As his acting career began to take off, he began to go off the rails. He became depressed because of the situation, turned to binge drinking and his life went off the rails. You start looking back and trying to work out reasons why your child is going off the rails. Given the amount of crime committed by young people, it is sometimes tempting to think that a whole generation has gone off the rails. The important information is that while he may have gone off the rails in the past, he's clean and sober now. Origin Middle English: from Old French reille ‘iron rod’, from Latin regula ‘straight stick, rule’. rail² verbreɪlrāl [no object]rail against/at/about Complain or protest strongly and persistently about. （强烈或反复地）抱怨；责骂 he railed at human fickleness 他怒叱人性之无常。 Example sentencesExamples Some have described him as a maverick, a colourful figure who rails against the evil of over-centralised administration and unanswerable power. Ironically, the point Williams was railing against was that all human behavior is selfishly motivated. He rails against the ‘dictatorship of relativism’. He rails against the ‘totally stupid’ tactics of the big airlines, whose response to the current crisis has been to cut staff and ground planes and to increase fares to cover higher costs, such as extra security. He complained in Parliament that the MP had railed at him on the phone and had called him a ‘scoundrel’. He rails against the bureaucratisation of livestock farming: lists, registers, rules and artificial standards, all of which waste time and money, and increase both human and animal suffering. This pragmatism continues to inform Republicanism today, giving it the debt-laden, welfarist character Sullivan rails against. At one point, he rails against corporate values standing in the way of good journalism and says broadcasters should be more questioning of things. Pierce refuses to discuss their departure, but rails at the suggestion that the newly-recruited line-up are just there to make up the numbers. In fact, I railed about this a few months ago in a post complaining that bloggers seemed all too thrilled to be a cog in the parties’ spin machines. If you look at his campaign finance reports, you'll see that he has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from the very companies that he rails against. Ishihara rails against everything from the reduction of the time hard-pressed Japanese kids have to spend in school to the country's non-nuclear peace constitution. Now, having failed to master hip-hop, the musician rails against it. I could get worked up about this, but I'm not so much railing against networks ignoring their civic duty as I am railing against human nature. Had those railing against the charges staged a dignified and lawful protest, the likelihood is they would continue to enjoy the support of the general populace. In the letter, Traficant rails against the U.S. Department of Justice, which put him in prison until 2009 after successfully convicting him on bribery and corruption charges. I challenge the members who rail against it to say that if their party were elected to Government, it would wipe out that fourth week of leave. The paper constantly railed against complacency and demanded firmer action against the old order. That is why he rails against the corporate bosses who essentially rob the kitty for their own greed and vanity. Ivor can be caustic at times and rails at the dearth of good science in our schools. Synonyms protest strongly at, make a protest against, fulminate against, inveigh against, rage against, thunder against, declaim against, remonstrate about, expostulate about, make a fuss about, speak out against, express disapproval of, criticize severely, denounce, censure, condemn Origin Late Middle English: from French railler, from Provençal ralhar ‘to jest’, based on an alteration of Latin rugire ‘to bellow’. rail³ nounrālreɪl A secretive bird with drab gray and brown plumage, typically having a long bill and found in dense waterside vegetation. 秧鸡 Family Rallidae (the rail family): several genera, especially Rallus, and numerous species. The rail family also includes the crakes, gallinules, moorhens, and coots Example sentencesExamples I have often regarded the rail as the premier bird of a freshwater marsh, so a marsh without one is to my mind severely lacking. The kagu has long been classified with the gruiform birds, a grab bag of anatomically diverse families such as the familiar cranes and rails. And the Airport Marsh harbored a multitude of ducks, coots, egrets, herons, and rails. Apart from coots and related rails, only ostriches and weaverbirds can detect parasitic eggs left by their own species. There were no rails or clappers to be found in the heat. Origin Late Middle English: from Old Northern French raille, perhaps of imitative origin. noun.1 phr. verb.1 noun.2
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