中文词源
pile-up 连环撞车
比喻用法。
英语词源
- pile-up (n.)
- "multi-vehicle crash," 1929, from verbal phrase pile up, which is from 1849 as "accumulate," 1899 as "to wreck in a heap" (see pile (v.)).
权威例句
- 1. On the table beside an empty plate was a pile of books.
- 桌上空盘子的旁边是一堆书。
- 2. The entire pile shifted and slid, thumping onto the floor.
- 那整整一摞东西动了一下后滑落下来，嘭的一声全掉到了地上。
- 3. I've got a pile of questions afterwards for you.
- 我有一大堆的问题等着过后问你。
- 4. Pick over the fruit and pile on top of the cream.
- 拣出好的水果，码放在奶油上。
- 5. She dug out a photograph from under a pile of papers.
- 她从一堆报纸下面抽出一张照片。