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The Grail (usually "the Holy Grail") is the legendary cup that Jesus is said to have used at the Last Supper — in old stories, knights spend their whole lives searching for it. Today, people use "the holy grail of ___" for the one ultimate, hardest-to-reach goal in a field — "a cure for cancer is the holy grail of medical research."
聖杯；(比喻)終極目標
組成Probably from an old French word for a wide serving dish or bowl.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
grailnoun詞源 1/ɡɹeɪl/
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The Holy Grail.
- The quest for the Grail is not archeology. It's a race against evil. If it is captured by the Nazis, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the earth. Do you understand me?
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Something eagerly sought or quested for.
- Becoming an astronaut was his grail.
- How many of them had found the item they dreamt of, their personal grails?
grailnoun詞源 2/ɡɹeɪl/
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A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
- antiphonals, missals, grails, processionals, etc.
grailnoun詞源 3/ɡɹeɪl/
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Small particles of earth; gravel.
- Hereof this gentle knight vnweeting was, / And lying downe vpon the sandie graile, / Drunke of the streame, as cleare as cristall glas [...].
grailnoun詞源 4/ɡɹeɪl/
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One of the small feathers of a hawk.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。