喜樂美語
  1. 1威爾（美國科羅拉多州的高級滑雪度假小鎮，講到就有「有錢人去的地方」的味道）

    Vail is a place name: a town high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, in the western United States, famous for skiing. It is one of the biggest and most expensive ski resorts in America — the kind of place rich people fly to for the winter holidays. So when an American says 'they have a house in Vail', the word is doing more than naming a town; it quietly says money. The town is young, built in the 1960s around the ski mountain, and named after Charles Vail, the engineer who put the road through the pass.

    Because it is a name, it always takes a capital V, and you use it with 'in' or 'to' like any town: 'in Vail', 'we're going to Vail'. Say it exactly like the word 'veil' (the thin cloth over a bride's face) — VAYL, one syllable. There is also an old English verb 'vail', meaning to lower or take off your hat as a sign of respect, but you will only ever meet that in Shakespeare, and it is not this word.

組成A place named after a person: Charles Vail, the highway engineer who built the road through the valley in the 1940s. The family surname itself goes back through Middle English vail to Old French, from Latin valeō, 'to be worth'.

原始詞典資料16 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

Vailname/veɪl/

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A placename

  • 3

    A placename

  • 4

    A placename

vailnoun詞源 1/veɪl/

  • 1

    obsoleteProfit; return; proceeds.

    • My house is as t’were the Caue, where the yong Out-lawe hoords the stolne vayles of his occupation […]
  • 2

    obsoleteMoney given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale.

    • Do you remember, how many Rich Gowns and Petticoats, how many lac’d Pinners, Hoods, Scarfs, and Nightrails, I have given you, since the three Years you have serv’d me, together with many other Vails, Perquisites, and Profits you have enjoy’d in my Service?
    • […] it is a maxim among the gentlemen of our cloth, that those masters who promise the most, perform the least; and I have often heard them say, they have found the largest vails in those families where they were not promised any.

vailnoun詞源 2/veɪl/

  • 1

    obsoleteSubmission.

vailverb詞源 2/veɪl/

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    obsoleteTo lower, let fall; to allow or cause to sink.

    • Then let them vale a bonet of their proud ſayle,
    • […] when he shall know it lies in vs, To banish him, and then to call him home, Twill make him vaile the topflag of his pride, And feare to offend the meanest noble man.
  • 2

    historyhuman-sciencessciencesTo lower or “dip” a carried flag or banner in a salute by a forward reducing of the angle of the pike/flagstaff with respect to the ground; in extreme instances, as when saluting a monarch, both the banner and the finial of the pike are allowed to rest upon the ground.

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    obsoletenauticaltransportTo lower a sail, in salute or otherwise.

    • Both we will walke vpon the loftie cliffes, And Chriſtian Merchants that with Ruſſian ſtems Plow vp huge furrowes in the Caſpian ſea, Shall vaile to vs, as Lords of al the Lake.
  • 4

    obsoleteTo remove as a sign of deference, as a hat.

    • […] Now the time is come That France must vail her lofty-plumed crest And let her head fall into England’s lap.
    • […] the Templar […], without vailing his bonnet, or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic, took from his neck a gold chain, which he flung on the board […]
  • 5

    obsoleteTo pay homage, bow, submit, defer (to someone or something); to yield, give way (to something).

    • She would with rich and constant pen Vail to her mistress Dian;
    • […] when a Man does not readily vail to the Opinions of approved Authors, which have been received with respect and submission by others

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