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- a heap of things laid or lying one on top of another一堆, 一叠：
he placed the books in a neat pile.
他把书整整齐齐地叠放在一起。
1.1
- informal a large amount of something〈非正式〉一大堆; 大量：
the growing pile of work.
不断增加的工作。
1.2
- a large imposing building or group of buildings高大建筑; 大厦; 建筑群：
a Victorian Gothic pile.
一座维多利亚时代的哥特式雄伟建筑。
1.3
- a series of plates of dissimilar metals laid one on another alternately to produce an electric current电池组。
1.4
- short for ATOMIC PILE.ATOMIC PILE的简称。
1.5
- archaic a funeral pyre〈古〉火葬用的柴堆。
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- with obj. and adverbial place (things) one on top of the other堆放, 堆积, 叠架：
she piled all the groceries on the counter.
她把食品杂货都堆放在柜台上。
1.1
be piled with
be stacked or loaded with堆满; 装满：his in-tray was piled high with papers.
他的收文架里高高地堆满了文件。
1.2
pile up/pile something up
increase or cause to increase in quantity把…堆积起来; 积累, 积聚：no obj. the work has piled up a bit工作有点儿积压了
with obj. the debts he piled up.他高筑的债台。
1.3
pile something on
informal intensify or exaggerate something for effect〈非正式〉夸大; 夸张：you can pile on the guilt but my heart has turned to stone.
你尽管夸大罪责吧, 反正我已心如铁石了。
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- no obj.
pile into/out of
(of a group of people) get into or out of (a vehicle) in a disorganized manner（人群）拥入（或拥出）（车辆）; 挤入（或挤出）（车辆）： ten of us piled into the minibus.
我们十个人挤进了那辆小面包车里。
2.1
pile into
(of a vehicle) crash into（车）撞：60 cars piled into each other on the M62.
在M62公路上60辆汽车撞在了一起。
短语
make a（或one's）pile
- informal make a lot of money〈非正式〉赚大钱, 发财。
pile arms
- place a number of rifles (usually four) with their butts on the ground and the muzzles together架枪（指将几枝［通常是4枝］步枪枪托着地, 枪口紧靠在一起）。
pile it on
- informal exaggerate the seriousness of a situation or of someone's behaviour to increase guilt or distress〈非正式〉夸大（情况的严重性或某人的行为以增加内疚或痛苦）。
pile on the agony
- informal exaggerate or aggravate a bad situation〈非正式〉过分渲染（困境）。
词源
late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pila 'pillar, pier'.
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- a heavy stake or post driven vertically into the bed of a river, soft ground, etc., to support the foundations of a superstructure（建筑、桥梁等打地基的）桩。
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- Heraldry a triangular charge or ordinary formed by two lines meeting at an acute angle, usually pointing down from the top of the shield【纹章】（尖头朝下的）楔形普通图记。
词源
Old English pīl 'dart, arrow', also 'pointed stake', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pijl and German Pfeil, from Latin pilum '(heavy) javelin'.