1
- a thing or collection of things wrapped in paper in order to be carried or sent by post包裹。
2
- a quantity or amount of something, especially as dealt with in one commercial transaction一批东西, 尤指商业交易一次涉及的量：
a parcel of shares.
一批股票。
2.1
- a piece of land, especially one considered as part of an estate一块土地（尤指地产的一部分）。
2.2
- technical a portion of a larger body of air or other fluid considered as a discrete element〈技〉一部分（气体或液体）。
2.3
- archaic, derogatory a group of people of a specified sort〈古, 贬〉（人的）一帮,一伙：
a parcel of rogues.
一帮无赖。
(parcelled, parcelling; <美> parceled, parceling) with obj.
1
- make (something) into a parcel by wrapping it把…包起来：
he parcelled up his only winter suit to take to the pawnbroker.
他把自己仅有的一套冬装包起来带到当铺去。
1.1
parcel something out
divide into portions and then distribute分配：the farmers argue that parcelling out commercial farmland in small plots will reduce productivity.
农民们争辩说把商品农田划成小块分配将会降低生产率。
2
- Nautical wrap (rope) with strips of tarred canvas, before binding it with yarn as part of a traditional technique to reduce chafing【航海】用涂油帆布条缠包（绳索）。
短语
pass the parcel
- a children's game in which a parcel is passed around to the accompaniment of music, the child holding the parcel when the music stops being allowed to unwrap a layer传包裹（儿童游戏, 听音乐传包裹, 音乐停止时拿着包裹的儿童可打开一层包裹皮）。
词源
late Middle English （chiefly in the sense 'small portion'）： from Old French parcelle, from Latin particula 'small part'.