【barrel】 - A-level备考词汇

barrel

UK:  ['bærəl]

US:  ['berəl]

复数：barrels  现在分词：barrelling  过去式：barrelled  

n.

1.桶,大琵琶桶

2.一琵琶桶(的分量)

3.装满的桶,桶装

4.枪管,炮管,炮筒

5.(牛、马的)身腔

6.〔口语〕许多

7.〔美国〕选举经费

8.宽阔

9.筒状物,枪筒,膛;【机械工程】圆筒

10.(钟表的)发条匣;(照相机的)镜头筒;【火箭】燃烧室;火箭发动机

v.

1.把…装桶

2.装入桶内

3.〔美俚〕高速行进

4.碰撞

5.高速运输

6.高速行驶

1 . But then the cost of a barrel of jet fuel more than doubled, to $170, just as the recession sent load factors down.
但是很快飞机用油每桶价格翻番，达到170美元，而同时经济衰退导致上座率降低。

2 . However, I think, are at the end of the barrel and barrel, if at the end of the barrel, the length of the other Board has no meaning at all.
但我觉得，企业家是这个桶的桶底，如果桶底不行，其他板的长短根本没有意义。

3 . A giant bowling ball of a head that melted into absolutely no neck, as if his skull had been glued to a barrel-chested body.
一个巨大的保龄球一样的脑袋绝对连脖子都看不到，好像他的头颅直接粘在一个胸肌发达水桶腰的身体上。

4 . He said supply disruptions in the Middle East could send oil prices up to $150 a barrel and help deepen any recession.
他说中东供油的中断可能会导致油价上升到150美元一桶，这将令任何经济衰退恶化。

5 . The last place we went to, just a few miles out of town, was an old Root Beer Barrel drive-in that had been converted to a truck stop.
我们去的最后一个地方，就在镇子几里外，那是个由卖沙士的路边餐厅改造成的卡车休息站。