barrel

• vt. 把……装入桶内
• n. 桶；枪管，炮管
• vi. 快速移动
• n. (Barrel)人名；(法、意)巴雷尔

词源同bar, 杆，棍。指用木杆围的桶。

barrel (n.)

c. 1300, from Old French baril (12c.) "barrel, cask, vat," with cognates in all Romance languages (such as Italian barile, Spanish barril), but origin uncertain; perhaps from Gaulish, perhaps somehow related to bar (n.1). Meaning "metal tube of a gun" is from 1640s. Barrel roll in aeronautics is from 1927.

barrel (v.)

mid-15c., "to put in barrels," from barrel (n.). Meaning "to move quickly" is 1930, American English slang, perhaps suggestive of a rolling barrel. Related: Barreled; barreling.

1. To keep warm they burnt wood in a rusty oil barrel.

他们在一只生锈的油桶里烧木柴来保暖。

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2. You'll eat so much your belly'll be like a barrel.

你会吃得肚子鼓鼓的，像个大酒桶。

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3. Pork-barrel politicians hand out rents to win votes and influence people.

搞分肥拨款的政客为获得选票、影响民情而发放房租补贴。

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4. The suppers are always a barrel of laughs.

晚餐总是充满欢笑。

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5. Oil prices were closing at $19.76 a barrel.

油价收于每桶19.76美元。

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