Definition of hole in English:

hole

noun həʊlhoʊl

1A hollow place in a solid body or surface.
洞，窟窿
the dog had dug a hole in the ground
Example sentencesExamples
- He said some of the holes in the road surface were as deep as eight inches.
- They feed by probing, and leave bands of holes along a beach where they have stuck their beaks into the sand probing for food.
- Jay mounded flour, made a hole in it, and dumped in a pinch of salt and then an egg.
- Just two weeks ago the bridge was temporarily closed while city officials repaired a gaping hole in its deteriorating surface.
- It came to rest just below the surface, leaving a hole 18 inches in diameter and sending up a large white cloud.
- The crash occurred when the truck, driving at a high speed, failed to avoid large holes in the surface of the road.
- And, as many cyclists would testify, smooth roads without pitted surfaces and random holes would be a good start.
- The cheapest and most ecologically sound way to build a swimming pool is simply to hollow a hole in the ground.
- He's been out in the car park for the last couple of weeks, digging a big hole in the ground.
- Returning to the garbage bag, he began to dig a large hole in the ground, into which he dumped the sack.
- After almost an hour, rescuers took his body from the hole, and paramedics declared him dead at the scene.
- The new pictures show that most of the moon is dark, but impacts have blasted holes in the surface to reveal much brighter material underneath, which is probably a mixture of ices.
- Transplant the seedlings in the normal manner by making a small hole through the surface mulch/manure and plant them into it.
- I headed out for the backyard where I proceeded to dig about a zillion holes in the ground searching for gold doubloons.
- ‘I saw women and children having to dig deep holes in the ground, often over eight metres, and climb down into them to find water,’ he said.
- He dug a small hole in the ground and placed the seed in it.
- It took forever but soon they had dug three holes and placed the bodies inside before covering them back up.
- Using a pencil, tease out the young plant from the seed tray and make a hole in the compost deep enough to take the roots of the seedling.
- For instance there were certain stones to be found in fields or graveyards with a hole or hollow which at times was full of water.
- There were large holes in the playing surface on one side of the pitch.
Synonyms
pit, ditch, trench, cavity, crater, depression, hollow
well, borehole, excavation, shaft, mineshaft, dugout
cave, cavern, pothole, chamber, gorge, chasm, canyon, ravine
1. 1.1 An aperture passing through something.
  孔，缝隙，洞
  he had a hole in his sock
  他的袜子有一个洞。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Take a large sewing needle to puncture evenly spaced holes around the top and bottom of the shade.
  We worked along the steel wall passing large circular holes where the heavy brass portholes had once been.
  Has it ever occurred to you that maybe I want holes in my socks?
  Shattered glass on the bus seats greeted the first driver to arrive for work, who discovered that vandals had broken in through a hole in the fence.
  The majority of schools need some form of restoration because of crumbling walls, bullet holes, broken windows and leaking roofs.
  The government initially said the submarine had found 14 cracks or holes through which oil was leaking.
  Choose a leather strap in pink, blue, white or black and then customize it by punching out the perforated holes to get your message across.
  As the letter was carried from the FBI to the Army lab, some powder leaked from a hole in the envelope into the plastic bag containing it.
  I made a hole in a black bin bag and put my head through it like some sort of black, plastic tabard.
  Suction occurs when there is a hole or fissure in the dam wall on the upstream side, and it means death for divers.
  At the centre of the dome is an oculus, a circular hole, which is the only source of light.
  Mr Tincombe has tried various traps and boarded up holes the rats have got through, but says they are attracted by a compost bin next door.
  The roof is leaking, there are holes in the floor, the sewage pipes are broken, the heating doesn't work - there is no money in the kitty.
  I also discovered that most of his socks have holes in them.
  Cut a cross-shaped hole out of the back of your t-shirt and go get sunburnt.
  Throw a towel or jacket over the bird, put it in a box or container with air holes and take it to the nearest animal shelter or wildlife rehabilitation center.
  Mr Stoff said he did not find anything inside the store, but the vandals had made a hole in its window.
  Someone had broken a hole in a meshed railing and people came through it and across the railway track to the Quay.
  The window pane of the restaurant was broken, leaving a hole 30 centimetres in diameter.
  Gaping holes puncture the walls, leaving glimpses of lifeless interiors through jagged brickwork and shattered windows.
  Each acorn was cleaned, weighed, and examined for insect larvae exit holes, splits in the shell, and protruding radicles.
  Synonyms
  opening, aperture, gap, space, orifice, slot, vent, outlet, chink, breach
  break, crack, leak, rift, rupture
  puncture, perforation, cut, incision, split, gash, rent, slit, cleft, crevice, fissure
  spyhole, peephole, keyhole
  Medicine foramen
  archaic loophole
2. 1.2 A cavity or receptacle on a golf course, typically one of eighteen or nine, into which the ball must be hit.
  （高尔夫球场的）球洞（尤指18个或9个中的一个）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Instead of trying to just hit the green, you're trying to get the ball close to the hole.
  Your eyes can follow the ball to the hole, but your spine angle stays the same.
  There is an air of anticipation among golfers in the wake of the green light for the extension of the course to eighteen holes.
  I thought if I could hit my lob wedge and stop the ball below the hole, I had a shot at par.
  He'd just pick the ball out of the hole, hand me the putter and beeline for the next tee.
  When your putting goes sour in the middle of a round, here's how to get the ball rolling into the hole.
  Base your decision on pace depending on what will happen to the ball after the hole.
  On the putting surface, the track of the ball to the hole is in their mind's eye as exact as the lines on a graph.
  I made eagle on the same hole last year and albatross this year: I'm going to struggle to keep that going next year.
  You may face a longer putt by not being able to work the ball closer to the hole, but you will be safely on the green.
  This usually occurs on short putts as golfers try to steer the ball toward the hole.
  As a result, they hit it, and the ball breaks across the hole and below it, and it never has a chance to go in.
  Unfortunately, the Dingle man managed to get his ball just nine metres from the hole but it was a very credible attempt for someone unused to the tee.
  Although his personal tussle with partner Lyle fizzled out, Jacobson admitted he had been nervous and uncomfortable in the opening holes.
  Steve Ryser and Mike Franklin sunk a long putt each on holes nine and eighteen respectively.
  So when I turned pro, one of my gimmicks was to throw my hat over the hole so the ball wouldn't pop out.
  I tried to focus on the speed and knew my adrenaline would get the ball to the hole.
  The big talking point was the speed of the greens and many a golfer paid the price of leaving the ball above the hole with four putts as a reward.
  And if they hit the green, they hope the ball stays below the hole; anything putted from above will likely run off.
  Lytham is a classic seaside links, nine flattish holes out, nine flattish holes in.
3. 1.3 One of the sections of a golf course or the divisions of play in a game of golf.
  Stephen lost the first three holes to Eric
  斯蒂芬前三洞输给了埃里克。
  Example sentencesExamples
  No less of an authority than Jack Nicklaus called it the hardest hole in tournament golf.
  The Ulsterman made 32 plodding pars in his opening 36 holes.
  I knew I was playing pretty well when we stopped after nine holes to have lunch.
  Woods found the rough with an iron at the first, thereby setting the tone for his concession of two strokes in his opening three holes.
  I went back last year and it costs $5 to play nine holes and they do 50,000 rounds a year.
  Going back a few years, 36 holes a day was a standard in major championships.
  They completed 72 holes at four golf courses in one day to raise more than £10,000 for Cancer Research.
  Despite the better ball format it took the Americans nine holes to produce a birdie, which was only good enough for a half.
  So torrential was the downpour, that the fourth round, which had already started - it was 36 holes a day - was abandoned.
  Parkin was two holes up after nine holes, scoring a birdie at the fourth and eagling the ninth to score 33.
  Top lawyers to play 18 holes at 18 golf courses in 12 hours to raise funds for meningitis research
  Hoey found himself two down after the opening two holes but he had turned that deficit into a one hole advantage by lunch time.
  Because of this the tournament was reduced to a 36 hole event.
  I decided to play nine holes on the Notre Dame golf course early, before she met me at my dorm.
  Harrington, who withdrew from the Open, was four under after nine holes but came home in 38 for a two under 70.
  The extent of my golf experience comes down to 18 holes on the miniature golf course at Nifty Fifty's.
  Garrido's round was achieved without the use of his driver, which he broke at the second hole on Friday.
  He once walked off the course after only a few holes of his opening practice round and withdrew from the upcoming Wales Open.
  It can be found, I think, on the golf course, when four friends gather for their weekly nine or eighteen holes.
  Yesterday, although refusing to buckle under the pressure, Montgomerie was undone by a poor putting performance over the opening nine holes.
4. 1.4 An animal's burrow.
  洞穴
  a fox's hole
  Example sentencesExamples
  While walking this earth he commented that foxes had holes and birds had nests in which to live, but he had ‘nowhere to lay his head’.
  From holes, burrows, and crevices, the creatures of the desert night crawled.
  How convenient it was that all the prey species were excavating holes and hollows and leafy chambers.
  They were slippery with mud, filled with rabbit burrows and gopher holes and rather high up.
  Except when you find the foxhole and the dogs go in, there's not a fox, but a weasel cowering in the corner of the hole.
  Hounds that have successfully tracked a fox are trained to pull it or dig it out of its hole, and the fox is killed.
  Other holes have been burrowed to accommodate the reef's larger residents, which give it its popular name, Conger Alley.
  Synonyms
  burrow, lair, den, covert, earth, sett, drey, retreat, shelter, cave
5. 1.5in place names A valley.
  山谷
  Seaton Hole
  锡顿山谷。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Tonight's report takes us to the Grand Teton National Park, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
6. 1.6Physics A position from which an electron is absent, especially one regarded as a mobile carrier of positive charge in a semiconductor.
  〔物〕空穴
  Example sentencesExamples
  When an electron and a hole interact in a polymer, quantum mechanics tells us that their spins can combine in four different ways.
  Electrons are not the only charge carriers; holes, or open spaces in bonding sites can also be used in conduction.
  And if the gate voltage is set just right, equal numbers of electrons and holes can flow through the tube in opposite directions at the same time.
  Irradiating such quantum dots with ultraviolet light creates excited electrons and the positive holes they leave behind.
  This process leaves the top and bottom surfaces with an excess of charge which attracts mobile electrons or holes.
2A place or position that needs to be filled because someone or something is no longer there.
she is missed terribly and her death has left a hole in all our lives
Example sentencesExamples
- In an emotional message days after Ivan's death, Mr Cameron told of the "hole" left in his life by the youngster's death.
1. 2.1 A shortcoming, weakness, or flaw in a plan, argument, etc.
  （计划或论证中的）漏洞
  intriguing as it sounds, the theory is full of holes
  尽管这理论听起来引人入胜，实际上却是漏洞百出。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It's totally daft and has plot holes you can drive a bus through.
  Did anyone else find the logic holes problematic?
  I don't believe that you can build a conclusive argument either for or against a ban, as there are inevitably going to be serious holes in both arguments.
  That first budget would expose the holes in their plans: how to cut tax, while maintaining spending levels on public services and levering more money out of the private sector.
  The agenda is interesting, but with glaring holes where the problems of the world are.
  People in the industry will spot holes in this legislation in all sorts of directions, and I am afraid that they have already spotted some.
  This leaves a hole where its positive agenda should be.
  One insider said the reason for the explosion of counterfeiting was the hole still existing in the law.
  Within 24 hr of the announcement, wily business pilots had figured out the plan was full of holes.
  It looks like the full report is not out until Monday, but I think I have already spotted the enormous hole in it.
  Is he afraid we will expose the huge holes in these fatally flawed proposals?
  Like too many of this government's initiatives, as soon as you start to examine the details gaping holes emerge.
  The hole in Jim's argument is that, before WWI, they said that capitalism wouldn't allow it.
  That's mainly because I love the experience of going to see a film and think that that makes up for any plot holes you may encounter.
  On one hand, the film is a terrible mess of plot holes, ridiculous premises, and overacting.
  Now, it doesn't take a genius to spot the glaring hole here.
  We need not only to discover what went wrong with the police - and why - but also how the CPS failed to spot the gaping holes in the evidence.
  Good on the surface, but as many have pointed out, all the plot holes and problems show up when you think about it for more than 10 seconds.
  In recent research, atmospheric scientists have been filling in holes in their basic knowledge about the ways that nature affects the chemistry of the atmosphere.
  It's not fact, it's a theory, with holes you can drive a truck through.
  Synonyms
  flaw, fault, defect, weakness, weak point, shortcoming, inconsistency, discrepancy, loophole, error, mistake, fallacy
3informal An unpleasant place.
〈非正式〉弹丸之地，小地方；讨厌的地方
she had wasted a whole lifetime in this hole of a town
她把一生都浪费在这个小镇上。
Example sentencesExamples
- Her sudden idea to bring Ryan with her, to the hole of a town she originated from, had not been discussed with him.
- This place is a hole, the waiters are rude, the food expensive.
- Four more fights in this hole before we get the hell out of here.
- Students were aggrieved at the possibility of being ‘stuck renting a hole in Cowley’ as Jessop put it.
- You have no rights, only criminals and important people have rights in this hole of a country.
Synonyms
hovel, slum, shack, mess
informal dump, dive, pigsty, tip, joint
1. 3.1 An awkward situation.
  〈非正式〉困境，尴尬的处境
  the team are in a bit of a hole and it's a case of seeing if they can dig themselves out
  Example sentencesExamples
  When you're in a hole, like we are, the challenge of leadership is a lot harder.
  The stage was huge - the World Cup - his team was in a hole, and the situation was certainly death or glory.
  It took us 20 years to get in this hole and it's going to take us 20 years to get out.
  The criticism of the state companies has surfaced at a time when they appear to be climbing out of the financial holes into which they stumbled in the 1990s.
  He pulled the club out of a big hole, but he is a businessman and he made his money back.
  But with the electoral countdown ticking away, his government badly needs to pull itself out of a hole.
  The police are incapable of satisfying all these demands, so we're in a hole.
  Synonyms
  predicament, difficult situation, awkward situation, mess, corner, tight corner, quandary, dilemma, muddle, emergency, crisis, imbroglio

verb həʊlhoʊl

[with object]

1Make a hole or holes in.
打洞于
a fuel tank was holed by the attack and a fire started
油箱被这次袭击打了个洞，起火了。
Example sentencesExamples
- This attack only managed to hole her above the waterline and set her alight.
- There was a tiny hut with a corrugated roof which was thoughtfully holed in several places to permit stargazing.
- Pumps were put on the vessel, which was holed, to keep it afloat so that boats could try and tow it from the rocks.
- Casualties were light but they lost one of their ships when it hit a rock and was holed.
- Daly, the boat is holed and fills with water at high tide.
- The harbourmaster assessed the wreck, which was extensively holed, as unsalvageable.
- The Alliance went to Bonhomme's rescue but managed to do more harm than good, holing the Bonhomme so badly that she was eventually to sink after a fierce three-and-a-half-hour battle.
- The tourists spoke of the moment their cruise in Antarctica turned into a real-life adventure after their liner was holed below the water line.
- Two days later it was holed and drifting landwards with oil gushing out of its tanks.
- The vessel was holed in numerous tanks with loss of crude and resultant pollution.
- The slick close to Spain's shores was bigger than the 5,000 tons of fuel oil spilled when the Prestige was holed off the Galician coast on November 13.
- The slick is estimated to contain some 11,000 tonnes of fuel oil - far bigger than the initial oil spill produced when one of the Prestige's tanks was holed, on November 13.
Synonyms
puncture, make a hole in, perforate, pierce, penetrate, rupture, spike, stab, split, slit, rent, lacerate, gash, gore
2Golf
Hit (the ball) into a hole.
〔高尔夫〕（把球）击入洞
George holed a six-iron shot from the fairway
no object he holed out for a birdie
Example sentencesExamples
- I had to sit in the clubhouse and nervously watch as Michael holed about a 40-foot putt on No.17 for par to stay within one shot of me.
- What was impressive was, so shortly after holing the winning putt, just seconds after his moment of glory, Payne was thinking of my situation.
- Malton and Norton GC 20-handicapper Mike Punchard holed in one for the first time in 15 years of playing the game on the 169-yard 17th hole.
- I holed a 10-footer on the last and was sure it was going to get me in, but it didn't and it's disappointing I've not had another chance.
- I cut a driver into the wind to about 12 feet and although I didn't hole it for eagle, it was a birdie and a change of fortunes in the tournament.
- He was one of five in a play-off for three places at Princes and went through in considerable style by holing a chip from seventy feet at the first tie hole.
- I'm swinging the club the way I want to, the putter is okay too, it's just that I'm holing nothing.
- Magnificently, he holed the shot and allowed himself to smile again.
- But a bad drive down the 17th led to only a par and when he pulled his approach to the last 45 feet wide he needed to hole it to win or three-putt to lose.
- Jason Horner holed in one at the fifth in Saturday's club four-ball.
- I holed a good number of putts all day, including a useful eighteen footer on my last green.
- I wasn't at the green when he holed the putt and punched the air four or five times, but it remains one of my strongest memories, even now.
- Then he holed for his par and the title.
- It looked as though it might affect him, but he said it did not and in practice on Monday he had holed in one on the 16th, admittedly with his third attempt.
- Until the last putt is holed on 18, it doesn't matter.
- Webb made birdie from a greenside bunker, but Sorenstam duly holed for eagle.
- While I was there, Nicklaus holed a birdie on the 16th.
- Having missed the green with his approach and left with a bunker between himself and the pin, he holed the chip for a birdie to finish in 76 for a total of 152, ten over par.
- I holed about a 40-footer for birdie on the first hole, and Mr. McKay jumped up and high-fived me.
- After he holed that putt he stayed calm, kept his gum working and just raised one finger.

Phrases

blow a hole in

Ruin the effectiveness of.
破坏有效性
the amendment could blow a hole in the legislation
修正草案会破坏该立法的有效性。
Example sentencesExamples
- Former Manchester United star Henning Berg hopes to bid a fond farewell to Old Trafford tomorrow by blowing a hole in his old club's title ambitions.
- Belle Vue's revamped side are planning to lay down a marker for a new, brighter era by blowing a hole in Oxford's Elite League title bid.
- A report by a top level think-tank blows a hole in Government claims that the gap between rich and poor has narrowed.
- The SPA, he says, blows a hole in government plans for more than 200,000 new homes by 2016 in the Thames Basin and Thames Gateway areas.
- If you love eating out, all you really need to know to avoid blowing a hole in your healthy eating plans is which dishes to go for and which to avoid.
- This is genuinely good news except for the fact that by then new genomic-based therapies will be available, blowing a hole in the national strategies.
- As he tries to explain this theory, Gonzales blows a hole in it himself.
- He said the rate of increase in current spending would have to be cut from 22% to around 10% immediately, or else it would blow a hole in the economy.
- The near - 16% fall in the cost of clothing and footwear over the same period tends to blow a hole in that argument.
- He could blow a hole in the very argument the administration was making on why we ought to go to war.
Synonyms
wreck, ruin, spoil, disrupt, undo, upset, play havoc with, make a mess of, put an end to, end, bring to an end, put a stop to, terminate, prevent, frustrate, blight, crush, quell, quash, dash, scotch, shatter, vitiate, blast, devastate, demolish, sabotage, torpedo

in the hole

informal In debt.
〈北美，非正式〉负债
we're still three thousand dollars in the hole
我们仍然负债3，000美元。
Example sentencesExamples
- And if things don't all go 100% perfectly, we'll be several billion dollars in the hole.
- Instead of paying once, you pay twice and the deeper you get in the hole, the more they control you.
- In other words, they planned to go in the hole, but they didn't go in the hole as much as they thought.
- The punishing combo of fewer jobs plus fewer hours worked has left family incomes in the hole.
- So the crash, when it comes, is going to leave a lot of people deep in the hole.

in holes

Worn so much that holes have formed.
有破洞
my clothes are in holes
我的衣服破了。
Example sentencesExamples
- I don't care if my clothes are in holes, or the curtains have shrunk or the rugs are threadbare.
Synonyms
shabby, well worn, worn, worn to shreds, threadbare, tattered, in tatters, in ribbons, in rags, in holes, holey, falling to pieces, falling apart at the seams, ragged, frayed, patched, moth-eaten, faded, seedy, shoddy, sorry, scruffy, dilapidated, crumbling, broken-down, run down, tumbledown, decrepit, deteriorated, on its last legs, having seen better days, time-worn

make a hole in
打洞于

Use a large amount of.
大量耗费
holidays can make a big hole in your savings
假期会让你花掉好多存款。
Example sentencesExamples
- Deflation is now making the hole in banks' balance sheets much bigger.
- If you have set up a home and want to dress it up without making a hole in your pocket then here is an option.
- The markets are a cornucopia of plenty and the prices won't make a hole in your pocket.
- It certainly would make a hole in the $6.5 billion tax surplus that was announced yesterday.

need something like a hole in the head

informal Used to emphasize that someone has absolutely no need or desire for something.
〈非正式〉绝对不需要
the government needs another reorganization like a hole in the head
Example sentencesExamples
- On the other hand, I need another expense like a hole in the head.
- By last week, the company needed the asbestos issue like a hole in the head.
- ‘We needed his injury like a hole in the head,’ said Godfrey of Smith.
- Theoretically, Ireland needs a rate cut like a hole in the head right now.
- ‘Howard needs a misfiring studio like a hole in the head,’ says a top studio executive.
- This club has already been dragged through the courts more than enough and needs another tribunal like a hole in the head.

Phrasal Verbs

hole out

1Cricket
(of a batsman) hit the ball to a fielder and be caught.
〔板球〕（击球手）击球（被外场手截获而）出局
Example sentencesExamples
- He eventually holed out to a diving catch at deep cover by Jamie Glasson and walked off to a standing ovation.
- They looked to have the game won when on 125 in the 40th over Jones holed out for a hard earned 40.
- Tim Bresnan was run out for a duck, before Lumb holed out to Bilal Shafayat on the long-on boundary.
- He finally fell for 34 off 69 balls - holing out to Ricky Ponting, which brought together the partnership that all England fans had been clamouring for.
- Katich holed out to Jones at third man, leaving McGrath stranded 80 short of his century.
2Golf
Send the ball into a hole.
〔高尔夫〕击球入洞
Example sentencesExamples
- As he waited to hole out on the 72nd green at Oakland Hills in 1937, Guldahl removed a comb from his pocket and coolly groomed his hair.
- To me, there is nothing more vital to scoring well than holing out from inside six feet or so.
- He holed out from the 14th fairway on Sunday for an eagle that gave him a share of the lead.
- Tiger Woods holes out for a birdie and is now two clear of the field.
- He missed a short putt on the fifth, and after holing out he dropped the ball on the green and in his frustration made a practice putt.

hole up

Hide oneself.
〈非正式〉躲藏，隐蔽
I holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Snowdonia
我在斯诺登尼亚的一个小村庄躲了两天。
Example sentencesExamples
- I panicked at the thought of driving home and gave one fleeting thought to staying, to holing up in the car for the rest of the storm, like lovers on the run.
- Police believe he might be holed up somewhere in southern California where he has a number of relatives.
- Special forces on Saturday besieging a house in the town, where five terror suspects were holed up.
- Today's elk are under such pressure that once the season opens they tend to hole up in the thickest cover they can find.
- I've come to the realization lately that I've been holing up in my apartment way too much for far too long.
- Having robbed her boss's safe in order to get married, she holes up overnight at the sinister Bates motel.
- Some 1,200 to 3,000 fighters were believed holed up in the city before the offensive.
- But then there was also fear that a sniper had holed up in one of the buildings down there.
- A Russion oil tycoon holes up in London after some dodgy dealings in his home country.
- The local garrison holed up in St Mary's Church and put up some tough opposition before falling to the superior Royalist forces.
Synonyms
hide, hide out, hide oneself, conceal oneself, secrete oneself, shelter, take cover, lie low, go to ground, go to earth, go underground

Derivatives

holey

adjective ˈhəʊliˈhoʊli

Others had big hats, including some triangular ones in the shape of holey cheese.
Example sentencesExamples
- In front is a tatty metal-roofed house on stilts with walls of thin, holey plywood daubed in graffiti.
- This guy was so reluctant to spend money he actually walked around with cardboard in the bottom of his holey shoes.
- You're instructed to throw away all your laddered tights, holey socks and sad-looking bras.
- Repairing holey waders long has been one of those frustrating bits of business for waterfowlers.

Origin

Old English hol (noun), holian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hol (noun) 'cave', (adjective) 'hollow', and German hohl 'hollow', from an Indo-European root meaning 'cover, conceal'.

Rhymes

barcarole, bole, bowl, cajole, coal, Cole, condole, console, control, dhole, dole, droll, enrol (US enroll), extol, foal, goal, Joel, knoll, kohl, mol, mole, Nicole, parol, parole, patrol, pole, poll, prole, rôle, roll, scroll, Seoul, shoal, skoal, sole, soul, stole, stroll, thole, Tirol, toad-in-the-hole, toll, troll, vole, whole

Definition of hole in US English:

hole

nounhoʊlhōl

1A hollow place in a solid body or surface.
洞，窟窿
he dug out a small hole in the snow
Example sentencesExamples
- There were large holes in the playing surface on one side of the pitch.
- He said some of the holes in the road surface were as deep as eight inches.
- The cheapest and most ecologically sound way to build a swimming pool is simply to hollow a hole in the ground.
- And, as many cyclists would testify, smooth roads without pitted surfaces and random holes would be a good start.
- After almost an hour, rescuers took his body from the hole, and paramedics declared him dead at the scene.
- The crash occurred when the truck, driving at a high speed, failed to avoid large holes in the surface of the road.
- He's been out in the car park for the last couple of weeks, digging a big hole in the ground.
- It came to rest just below the surface, leaving a hole 18 inches in diameter and sending up a large white cloud.
- For instance there were certain stones to be found in fields or graveyards with a hole or hollow which at times was full of water.
- ‘I saw women and children having to dig deep holes in the ground, often over eight metres, and climb down into them to find water,’ he said.
- Returning to the garbage bag, he began to dig a large hole in the ground, into which he dumped the sack.
- Jay mounded flour, made a hole in it, and dumped in a pinch of salt and then an egg.
- Just two weeks ago the bridge was temporarily closed while city officials repaired a gaping hole in its deteriorating surface.
- The new pictures show that most of the moon is dark, but impacts have blasted holes in the surface to reveal much brighter material underneath, which is probably a mixture of ices.
- They feed by probing, and leave bands of holes along a beach where they have stuck their beaks into the sand probing for food.
- I headed out for the backyard where I proceeded to dig about a zillion holes in the ground searching for gold doubloons.
- Using a pencil, tease out the young plant from the seed tray and make a hole in the compost deep enough to take the roots of the seedling.
- Transplant the seedlings in the normal manner by making a small hole through the surface mulch/manure and plant them into it.
- He dug a small hole in the ground and placed the seed in it.
- It took forever but soon they had dug three holes and placed the bodies inside before covering them back up.
Synonyms
pit, ditch, trench, cavity, crater, depression, hollow
1. 1.1 An aperture passing through something.
  孔，缝隙，洞
  he had a hole in his sock
  他的袜子有一个洞。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The window pane of the restaurant was broken, leaving a hole 30 centimetres in diameter.
  Take a large sewing needle to puncture evenly spaced holes around the top and bottom of the shade.
  Cut a cross-shaped hole out of the back of your t-shirt and go get sunburnt.
  As the letter was carried from the FBI to the Army lab, some powder leaked from a hole in the envelope into the plastic bag containing it.
  I made a hole in a black bin bag and put my head through it like some sort of black, plastic tabard.
  Suction occurs when there is a hole or fissure in the dam wall on the upstream side, and it means death for divers.
  Mr Tincombe has tried various traps and boarded up holes the rats have got through, but says they are attracted by a compost bin next door.
  At the centre of the dome is an oculus, a circular hole, which is the only source of light.
  The majority of schools need some form of restoration because of crumbling walls, bullet holes, broken windows and leaking roofs.
  Choose a leather strap in pink, blue, white or black and then customize it by punching out the perforated holes to get your message across.
  Throw a towel or jacket over the bird, put it in a box or container with air holes and take it to the nearest animal shelter or wildlife rehabilitation center.
  The government initially said the submarine had found 14 cracks or holes through which oil was leaking.
  Someone had broken a hole in a meshed railing and people came through it and across the railway track to the Quay.
  Shattered glass on the bus seats greeted the first driver to arrive for work, who discovered that vandals had broken in through a hole in the fence.
  The roof is leaking, there are holes in the floor, the sewage pipes are broken, the heating doesn't work - there is no money in the kitty.
  Has it ever occurred to you that maybe I want holes in my socks?
  I also discovered that most of his socks have holes in them.
  We worked along the steel wall passing large circular holes where the heavy brass portholes had once been.
  Gaping holes puncture the walls, leaving glimpses of lifeless interiors through jagged brickwork and shattered windows.
  Mr Stoff said he did not find anything inside the store, but the vandals had made a hole in its window.
  Each acorn was cleaned, weighed, and examined for insect larvae exit holes, splits in the shell, and protruding radicles.
  Synonyms
  opening, aperture, gap, space, orifice, slot, vent, outlet, chink, breach
2. 1.2 A cavity or receptacle on a golf course, typically one of eighteen or nine, into which the ball must be hit.
  （高尔夫球场的）球洞（尤指18个或9个中的一个）
  Example sentencesExamples
  There is an air of anticipation among golfers in the wake of the green light for the extension of the course to eighteen holes.
  Base your decision on pace depending on what will happen to the ball after the hole.
  Your eyes can follow the ball to the hole, but your spine angle stays the same.
  Although his personal tussle with partner Lyle fizzled out, Jacobson admitted he had been nervous and uncomfortable in the opening holes.
  I made eagle on the same hole last year and albatross this year: I'm going to struggle to keep that going next year.
  I tried to focus on the speed and knew my adrenaline would get the ball to the hole.
  This usually occurs on short putts as golfers try to steer the ball toward the hole.
  When your putting goes sour in the middle of a round, here's how to get the ball rolling into the hole.
  On the putting surface, the track of the ball to the hole is in their mind's eye as exact as the lines on a graph.
  So when I turned pro, one of my gimmicks was to throw my hat over the hole so the ball wouldn't pop out.
  As a result, they hit it, and the ball breaks across the hole and below it, and it never has a chance to go in.
  And if they hit the green, they hope the ball stays below the hole; anything putted from above will likely run off.
  Lytham is a classic seaside links, nine flattish holes out, nine flattish holes in.
  The big talking point was the speed of the greens and many a golfer paid the price of leaving the ball above the hole with four putts as a reward.
  Unfortunately, the Dingle man managed to get his ball just nine metres from the hole but it was a very credible attempt for someone unused to the tee.
  I thought if I could hit my lob wedge and stop the ball below the hole, I had a shot at par.
  You may face a longer putt by not being able to work the ball closer to the hole, but you will be safely on the green.
  Instead of trying to just hit the green, you're trying to get the ball close to the hole.
  He'd just pick the ball out of the hole, hand me the putter and beeline for the next tee.
  Steve Ryser and Mike Franklin sunk a long putt each on holes nine and eighteen respectively.
3. 1.3 A hole as representing a division of a golf course or of play in golf.
  （表示高尔夫球场或球赛分区的）球洞
  Stephen lost the first three holes to Eric
  斯蒂芬前三洞输给了埃里克。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It can be found, I think, on the golf course, when four friends gather for their weekly nine or eighteen holes.
  No less of an authority than Jack Nicklaus called it the hardest hole in tournament golf.
  So torrential was the downpour, that the fourth round, which had already started - it was 36 holes a day - was abandoned.
  Hoey found himself two down after the opening two holes but he had turned that deficit into a one hole advantage by lunch time.
  Woods found the rough with an iron at the first, thereby setting the tone for his concession of two strokes in his opening three holes.
  Harrington, who withdrew from the Open, was four under after nine holes but came home in 38 for a two under 70.
  Going back a few years, 36 holes a day was a standard in major championships.
  Top lawyers to play 18 holes at 18 golf courses in 12 hours to raise funds for meningitis research
  Yesterday, although refusing to buckle under the pressure, Montgomerie was undone by a poor putting performance over the opening nine holes.
  Garrido's round was achieved without the use of his driver, which he broke at the second hole on Friday.
  I knew I was playing pretty well when we stopped after nine holes to have lunch.
  I went back last year and it costs $5 to play nine holes and they do 50,000 rounds a year.
  He once walked off the course after only a few holes of his opening practice round and withdrew from the upcoming Wales Open.
  Parkin was two holes up after nine holes, scoring a birdie at the fourth and eagling the ninth to score 33.
  Because of this the tournament was reduced to a 36 hole event.
  The extent of my golf experience comes down to 18 holes on the miniature golf course at Nifty Fifty's.
  Despite the better ball format it took the Americans nine holes to produce a birdie, which was only good enough for a half.
  The Ulsterman made 32 plodding pars in his opening 36 holes.
  They completed 72 holes at four golf courses in one day to raise more than £10,000 for Cancer Research.
  I decided to play nine holes on the Notre Dame golf course early, before she met me at my dorm.
4. 1.4 An animal's burrow.
  洞穴
  Example sentencesExamples
  Other holes have been burrowed to accommodate the reef's larger residents, which give it its popular name, Conger Alley.
  While walking this earth he commented that foxes had holes and birds had nests in which to live, but he had ‘nowhere to lay his head’.
  How convenient it was that all the prey species were excavating holes and hollows and leafy chambers.
  They were slippery with mud, filled with rabbit burrows and gopher holes and rather high up.
  Hounds that have successfully tracked a fox are trained to pull it or dig it out of its hole, and the fox is killed.
  From holes, burrows, and crevices, the creatures of the desert night crawled.
  Except when you find the foxhole and the dogs go in, there's not a fox, but a weasel cowering in the corner of the hole.
  Synonyms
  burrow, lair, den, covert, earth, sett, drey, retreat, shelter, cave
5. 1.5in place names A valley.
  山谷
  Jackson Hole
  Example sentencesExamples
  Tonight's report takes us to the Grand Teton National Park, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
6. 1.6Physics A position from which an electron is absent, especially one regarded as a mobile carrier of positive charge in a semiconductor.
  〔物〕空穴
  Example sentencesExamples
  This process leaves the top and bottom surfaces with an excess of charge which attracts mobile electrons or holes.
  Electrons are not the only charge carriers; holes, or open spaces in bonding sites can also be used in conduction.
  Irradiating such quantum dots with ultraviolet light creates excited electrons and the positive holes they leave behind.
  And if the gate voltage is set just right, equal numbers of electrons and holes can flow through the tube in opposite directions at the same time.
  When an electron and a hole interact in a polymer, quantum mechanics tells us that their spins can combine in four different ways.
2informal A small or unpleasant place.
〈非正式〉弹丸之地，小地方；讨厌的地方
she had wasted a whole lifetime in this hole of a town
她把一生都浪费在这个小镇上。
Example sentencesExamples
- Students were aggrieved at the possibility of being ‘stuck renting a hole in Cowley’ as Jessop put it.
- Four more fights in this hole before we get the hell out of here.
- Her sudden idea to bring Ryan with her, to the hole of a town she originated from, had not been discussed with him.
- This place is a hole, the waiters are rude, the food expensive.
- You have no rights, only criminals and important people have rights in this hole of a country.
Synonyms
hovel, slum, shack, mess
1. 2.1 An awkward situation.
  〈非正式〉困境，尴尬的处境
  get yourself out of a hole
  摆脱尴尬处境。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It took us 20 years to get in this hole and it's going to take us 20 years to get out.
  When you're in a hole, like we are, the challenge of leadership is a lot harder.
  The stage was huge - the World Cup - his team was in a hole, and the situation was certainly death or glory.
  He pulled the club out of a big hole, but he is a businessman and he made his money back.
  The criticism of the state companies has surfaced at a time when they appear to be climbing out of the financial holes into which they stumbled in the 1990s.
  But with the electoral countdown ticking away, his government badly needs to pull itself out of a hole.
  The police are incapable of satisfying all these demands, so we're in a hole.
  Synonyms
  predicament, difficult situation, awkward situation, mess, corner, tight corner, quandary, dilemma, muddle, emergency, crisis, imbroglio

verbhoʊlhōl

[with object]

1Make a hole or holes in.
打洞于
a fuel tank was holed by the attack and a fire started
油箱被这次袭击打了个洞，起火了。
Example sentencesExamples
- The tourists spoke of the moment their cruise in Antarctica turned into a real-life adventure after their liner was holed below the water line.
- Pumps were put on the vessel, which was holed, to keep it afloat so that boats could try and tow it from the rocks.
- The slick close to Spain's shores was bigger than the 5,000 tons of fuel oil spilled when the Prestige was holed off the Galician coast on November 13.
- Casualties were light but they lost one of their ships when it hit a rock and was holed.
- This attack only managed to hole her above the waterline and set her alight.
- There was a tiny hut with a corrugated roof which was thoughtfully holed in several places to permit stargazing.
- Two days later it was holed and drifting landwards with oil gushing out of its tanks.
- Daly, the boat is holed and fills with water at high tide.
- The slick is estimated to contain some 11,000 tonnes of fuel oil - far bigger than the initial oil spill produced when one of the Prestige's tanks was holed, on November 13.
- The Alliance went to Bonhomme's rescue but managed to do more harm than good, holing the Bonhomme so badly that she was eventually to sink after a fierce three-and-a-half-hour battle.
- The vessel was holed in numerous tanks with loss of crude and resultant pollution.
- The harbourmaster assessed the wreck, which was extensively holed, as unsalvageable.
Synonyms
puncture, make a hole in, perforate, pierce, penetrate, rupture, spike, stab, split, slit, rent, lacerate, gash, gore
2Golf
Hit (the ball) so that it falls into a hole.
〔高尔夫〕（把球）击入洞
alternate shots from each partner until the ball is holed
每个伙伴交替击球，直到把球击入球洞。
no object he holed in one at the third
第三个球洞，他是一击入洞的。
Example sentencesExamples
- I cut a driver into the wind to about 12 feet and although I didn't hole it for eagle, it was a birdie and a change of fortunes in the tournament.
- Malton and Norton GC 20-handicapper Mike Punchard holed in one for the first time in 15 years of playing the game on the 169-yard 17th hole.
- But a bad drive down the 17th led to only a par and when he pulled his approach to the last 45 feet wide he needed to hole it to win or three-putt to lose.
- I had to sit in the clubhouse and nervously watch as Michael holed about a 40-foot putt on No.17 for par to stay within one shot of me.
- I wasn't at the green when he holed the putt and punched the air four or five times, but it remains one of my strongest memories, even now.
- He was one of five in a play-off for three places at Princes and went through in considerable style by holing a chip from seventy feet at the first tie hole.
- While I was there, Nicklaus holed a birdie on the 16th.
- I'm swinging the club the way I want to, the putter is okay too, it's just that I'm holing nothing.
- I holed a 10-footer on the last and was sure it was going to get me in, but it didn't and it's disappointing I've not had another chance.
- Then he holed for his par and the title.
- It looked as though it might affect him, but he said it did not and in practice on Monday he had holed in one on the 16th, admittedly with his third attempt.
- What was impressive was, so shortly after holing the winning putt, just seconds after his moment of glory, Payne was thinking of my situation.
- I holed a good number of putts all day, including a useful eighteen footer on my last green.
- Having missed the green with his approach and left with a bunker between himself and the pin, he holed the chip for a birdie to finish in 76 for a total of 152, ten over par.
- Webb made birdie from a greenside bunker, but Sorenstam duly holed for eagle.
- After he holed that putt he stayed calm, kept his gum working and just raised one finger.
- Magnificently, he holed the shot and allowed himself to smile again.
- Until the last putt is holed on 18, it doesn't matter.
- Jason Horner holed in one at the fifth in Saturday's club four-ball.
- I holed about a 40-footer for birdie on the first hole, and Mr. McKay jumped up and high-fived me.

Phrases

blow a hole in

Ruin the effectiveness of (something)
破坏有效性
the amendment could blow a hole in the legislation
修正草案会破坏该立法的有效性。
Example sentencesExamples
- He said the rate of increase in current spending would have to be cut from 22% to around 10% immediately, or else it would blow a hole in the economy.
- The near - 16% fall in the cost of clothing and footwear over the same period tends to blow a hole in that argument.
- Former Manchester United star Henning Berg hopes to bid a fond farewell to Old Trafford tomorrow by blowing a hole in his old club's title ambitions.
- The SPA, he says, blows a hole in government plans for more than 200,000 new homes by 2016 in the Thames Basin and Thames Gateway areas.
- As he tries to explain this theory, Gonzales blows a hole in it himself.
- This is genuinely good news except for the fact that by then new genomic-based therapies will be available, blowing a hole in the national strategies.
- He could blow a hole in the very argument the administration was making on why we ought to go to war.
- If you love eating out, all you really need to know to avoid blowing a hole in your healthy eating plans is which dishes to go for and which to avoid.
- A report by a top level think-tank blows a hole in Government claims that the gap between rich and poor has narrowed.
- Belle Vue's revamped side are planning to lay down a marker for a new, brighter era by blowing a hole in Oxford's Elite League title bid.
Synonyms
wreck, ruin, spoil, disrupt, undo, upset, play havoc with, make a mess of, put an end to, end, bring to an end, put a stop to, terminate, prevent, frustrate, blight, crush, quell, quash, dash, scotch, shatter, vitiate, blast, devastate, demolish, sabotage, torpedo

in the hole

informal In debt.
〈北美，非正式〉负债
we're still three thousand dollars in the hole
我们仍然负债3，000美元。
Example sentencesExamples
- Instead of paying once, you pay twice and the deeper you get in the hole, the more they control you.
- So the crash, when it comes, is going to leave a lot of people deep in the hole.
- The punishing combo of fewer jobs plus fewer hours worked has left family incomes in the hole.
- And if things don't all go 100% perfectly, we'll be several billion dollars in the hole.
- In other words, they planned to go in the hole, but they didn't go in the hole as much as they thought.

in holes

Worn so much that holes have formed.
有破洞
my clothes are in holes
我的衣服破了。
Example sentencesExamples
- I don't care if my clothes are in holes, or the curtains have shrunk or the rugs are threadbare.
Synonyms
shabby, well worn, worn, worn to shreds, threadbare, tattered, in tatters, in ribbons, in rags, in holes, holey, falling to pieces, falling apart at the seams, ragged, frayed, patched, moth-eaten, faded, seedy, shoddy, sorry, scruffy, dilapidated, crumbling, broken-down, run down, tumbledown, decrepit, deteriorated, on its last legs, having seen better days, time-worn

make a hole in
打洞于

Use a large amount of.
大量耗费
holidays can make a big hole in your savings
假期会让你花掉好多存款。
Example sentencesExamples
- It certainly would make a hole in the $6.5 billion tax surplus that was announced yesterday.
- Deflation is now making the hole in banks' balance sheets much bigger.
- The markets are a cornucopia of plenty and the prices won't make a hole in your pocket.
- If you have set up a home and want to dress it up without making a hole in your pocket then here is an option.

need something like a hole in the head

informal Used to emphasize that someone has absolutely no need or desire for something.
〈非正式〉绝对不需要
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘We needed his injury like a hole in the head,’ said Godfrey of Smith.
- On the other hand, I need another expense like a hole in the head.
- This club has already been dragged through the courts more than enough and needs another tribunal like a hole in the head.
- ‘Howard needs a misfiring studio like a hole in the head,’ says a top studio executive.
- Theoretically, Ireland needs a rate cut like a hole in the head right now.
- By last week, the company needed the asbestos issue like a hole in the head.

Phrasal Verbs

hole out

Send the ball into a hole.
〔高尔夫〕击球入洞
Example sentencesExamples
- He holed out from the 14th fairway on Sunday for an eagle that gave him a share of the lead.
- He missed a short putt on the fifth, and after holing out he dropped the ball on the green and in his frustration made a practice putt.
- Tiger Woods holes out for a birdie and is now two clear of the field.
- To me, there is nothing more vital to scoring well than holing out from inside six feet or so.
- As he waited to hole out on the 72nd green at Oakland Hills in 1937, Guldahl removed a comb from his pocket and coolly groomed his hair.

hole up

Hide oneself.
〈非正式〉躲藏，隐蔽
I holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Pennsylvania
我在斯诺登尼亚的一个小村庄躲了两天。
Example sentencesExamples
- I panicked at the thought of driving home and gave one fleeting thought to staying, to holing up in the car for the rest of the storm, like lovers on the run.
- Some 1,200 to 3,000 fighters were believed holed up in the city before the offensive.
- I've come to the realization lately that I've been holing up in my apartment way too much for far too long.
- Having robbed her boss's safe in order to get married, she holes up overnight at the sinister Bates motel.
- Police believe he might be holed up somewhere in southern California where he has a number of relatives.
- Special forces on Saturday besieging a house in the town, where five terror suspects were holed up.
- Today's elk are under such pressure that once the season opens they tend to hole up in the thickest cover they can find.
- A Russion oil tycoon holes up in London after some dodgy dealings in his home country.
- But then there was also fear that a sniper had holed up in one of the buildings down there.
- The local garrison holed up in St Mary's Church and put up some tough opposition before falling to the superior Royalist forces.
Synonyms
hide, hide out, hide oneself, conceal oneself, secrete oneself, shelter, take cover, lie low, go to ground, go to earth, go underground

Origin

Old English hol (noun), holian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hol (noun) ‘cave’, (adjective) ‘hollow’, and German hohl ‘hollow’, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘cover, conceal’.

词汇	hole
释义	Definition of hole in English: hole noun həʊlhoʊl 1A hollow place in a solid body or surface. 洞，窟窿 the dog had dug a hole in the ground Example sentencesExamples He said some of the holes in the road surface were as deep as eight inches. They feed by probing, and leave bands of holes along a beach where they have stuck their beaks into the sand probing for food. Jay mounded flour, made a hole in it, and dumped in a pinch of salt and then an egg. Just two weeks ago the bridge was temporarily closed while city officials repaired a gaping hole in its deteriorating surface. It came to rest just below the surface, leaving a hole 18 inches in diameter and sending up a large white cloud. The crash occurred when the truck, driving at a high speed, failed to avoid large holes in the surface of the road. And, as many cyclists would testify, smooth roads without pitted surfaces and random holes would be a good start. The cheapest and most ecologically sound way to build a swimming pool is simply to hollow a hole in the ground. He's been out in the car park for the last couple of weeks, digging a big hole in the ground. Returning to the garbage bag, he began to dig a large hole in the ground, into which he dumped the sack. After almost an hour, rescuers took his body from the hole, and paramedics declared him dead at the scene. The new pictures show that most of the moon is dark, but impacts have blasted holes in the surface to reveal much brighter material underneath, which is probably a mixture of ices. Transplant the seedlings in the normal manner by making a small hole through the surface mulch/manure and plant them into it. I headed out for the backyard where I proceeded to dig about a zillion holes in the ground searching for gold doubloons. ‘I saw women and children having to dig deep holes in the ground, often over eight metres, and climb down into them to find water,’ he said. He dug a small hole in the ground and placed the seed in it. It took forever but soon they had dug three holes and placed the bodies inside before covering them back up. Using a pencil, tease out the young plant from the seed tray and make a hole in the compost deep enough to take the roots of the seedling. For instance there were certain stones to be found in fields or graveyards with a hole or hollow which at times was full of water. There were large holes in the playing surface on one side of the pitch. Synonyms pit, ditch, trench, cavity, crater, depression, hollow well, borehole, excavation, shaft, mineshaft, dugout cave, cavern, pothole, chamber, gorge, chasm, canyon, ravine 1.1 An aperture passing through something. 孔，缝隙，洞 he had a hole in his sock 他的袜子有一个洞。 Example sentencesExamples Take a large sewing needle to puncture evenly spaced holes around the top and bottom of the shade. We worked along the steel wall passing large circular holes where the heavy brass portholes had once been. Has it ever occurred to you that maybe I want holes in my socks? Shattered glass on the bus seats greeted the first driver to arrive for work, who discovered that vandals had broken in through a hole in the fence. The majority of schools need some form of restoration because of crumbling walls, bullet holes, broken windows and leaking roofs. The government initially said the submarine had found 14 cracks or holes through which oil was leaking. Choose a leather strap in pink, blue, white or black and then customize it by punching out the perforated holes to get your message across. As the letter was carried from the FBI to the Army lab, some powder leaked from a hole in the envelope into the plastic bag containing it. I made a hole in a black bin bag and put my head through it like some sort of black, plastic tabard. Suction occurs when there is a hole or fissure in the dam wall on the upstream side, and it means death for divers. At the centre of the dome is an oculus, a circular hole, which is the only source of light. Mr Tincombe has tried various traps and boarded up holes the rats have got through, but says they are attracted by a compost bin next door. The roof is leaking, there are holes in the floor, the sewage pipes are broken, the heating doesn't work - there is no money in the kitty. I also discovered that most of his socks have holes in them. Cut a cross-shaped hole out of the back of your t-shirt and go get sunburnt. Throw a towel or jacket over the bird, put it in a box or container with air holes and take it to the nearest animal shelter or wildlife rehabilitation center. Mr Stoff said he did not find anything inside the store, but the vandals had made a hole in its window. Someone had broken a hole in a meshed railing and people came through it and across the railway track to the Quay. The window pane of the restaurant was broken, leaving a hole 30 centimetres in diameter. Gaping holes puncture the walls, leaving glimpses of lifeless interiors through jagged brickwork and shattered windows. Each acorn was cleaned, weighed, and examined for insect larvae exit holes, splits in the shell, and protruding radicles. Synonyms opening, aperture, gap, space, orifice, slot, vent, outlet, chink, breach break, crack, leak, rift, rupture puncture, perforation, cut, incision, split, gash, rent, slit, cleft, crevice, fissure spyhole, peephole, keyhole Medicine foramen archaic loophole 1.2 A cavity or receptacle on a golf course, typically one of eighteen or nine, into which the ball must be hit. （高尔夫球场的）球洞（尤指18个或9个中的一个） Example sentencesExamples Instead of trying to just hit the green, you're trying to get the ball close to the hole. Your eyes can follow the ball to the hole, but your spine angle stays the same. There is an air of anticipation among golfers in the wake of the green light for the extension of the course to eighteen holes. I thought if I could hit my lob wedge and stop the ball below the hole, I had a shot at par. He'd just pick the ball out of the hole, hand me the putter and beeline for the next tee. When your putting goes sour in the middle of a round, here's how to get the ball rolling into the hole. Base your decision on pace depending on what will happen to the ball after the hole. On the putting surface, the track of the ball to the hole is in their mind's eye as exact as the lines on a graph. I made eagle on the same hole last year and albatross this year: I'm going to struggle to keep that going next year. You may face a longer putt by not being able to work the ball closer to the hole, but you will be safely on the green. This usually occurs on short putts as golfers try to steer the ball toward the hole. As a result, they hit it, and the ball breaks across the hole and below it, and it never has a chance to go in. Unfortunately, the Dingle man managed to get his ball just nine metres from the hole but it was a very credible attempt for someone unused to the tee. Although his personal tussle with partner Lyle fizzled out, Jacobson admitted he had been nervous and uncomfortable in the opening holes. Steve Ryser and Mike Franklin sunk a long putt each on holes nine and eighteen respectively. So when I turned pro, one of my gimmicks was to throw my hat over the hole so the ball wouldn't pop out. I tried to focus on the speed and knew my adrenaline would get the ball to the hole. The big talking point was the speed of the greens and many a golfer paid the price of leaving the ball above the hole with four putts as a reward. And if they hit the green, they hope the ball stays below the hole; anything putted from above will likely run off. Lytham is a classic seaside links, nine flattish holes out, nine flattish holes in. 1.3 One of the sections of a golf course or the divisions of play in a game of golf. Stephen lost the first three holes to Eric 斯蒂芬前三洞输给了埃里克。 Example sentencesExamples No less of an authority than Jack Nicklaus called it the hardest hole in tournament golf. The Ulsterman made 32 plodding pars in his opening 36 holes. I knew I was playing pretty well when we stopped after nine holes to have lunch. Woods found the rough with an iron at the first, thereby setting the tone for his concession of two strokes in his opening three holes. I went back last year and it costs $5 to play nine holes and they do 50,000 rounds a year. Going back a few years, 36 holes a day was a standard in major championships. They completed 72 holes at four golf courses in one day to raise more than £10,000 for Cancer Research. Despite the better ball format it took the Americans nine holes to produce a birdie, which was only good enough for a half. So torrential was the downpour, that the fourth round, which had already started - it was 36 holes a day - was abandoned. Parkin was two holes up after nine holes, scoring a birdie at the fourth and eagling the ninth to score 33. Top lawyers to play 18 holes at 18 golf courses in 12 hours to raise funds for meningitis research Hoey found himself two down after the opening two holes but he had turned that deficit into a one hole advantage by lunch time. Because of this the tournament was reduced to a 36 hole event. I decided to play nine holes on the Notre Dame golf course early, before she met me at my dorm. Harrington, who withdrew from the Open, was four under after nine holes but came home in 38 for a two under 70. The extent of my golf experience comes down to 18 holes on the miniature golf course at Nifty Fifty's. Garrido's round was achieved without the use of his driver, which he broke at the second hole on Friday. He once walked off the course after only a few holes of his opening practice round and withdrew from the upcoming Wales Open. It can be found, I think, on the golf course, when four friends gather for their weekly nine or eighteen holes. Yesterday, although refusing to buckle under the pressure, Montgomerie was undone by a poor putting performance over the opening nine holes. 1.4 An animal's burrow. 洞穴 a fox's hole Example sentencesExamples While walking this earth he commented that foxes had holes and birds had nests in which to live, but he had ‘nowhere to lay his head’. From holes, burrows, and crevices, the creatures of the desert night crawled. How convenient it was that all the prey species were excavating holes and hollows and leafy chambers. They were slippery with mud, filled with rabbit burrows and gopher holes and rather high up. Except when you find the foxhole and the dogs go in, there's not a fox, but a weasel cowering in the corner of the hole. Hounds that have successfully tracked a fox are trained to pull it or dig it out of its hole, and the fox is killed. Other holes have been burrowed to accommodate the reef's larger residents, which give it its popular name, Conger Alley. Synonyms burrow, lair, den, covert, earth, sett, drey, retreat, shelter, cave 1.5in place names A valley. 山谷 Seaton Hole 锡顿山谷。 Example sentencesExamples Tonight's report takes us to the Grand Teton National Park, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. 1.6Physics A position from which an electron is absent, especially one regarded as a mobile carrier of positive charge in a semiconductor. 〔物〕空穴 Example sentencesExamples When an electron and a hole interact in a polymer, quantum mechanics tells us that their spins can combine in four different ways. Electrons are not the only charge carriers; holes, or open spaces in bonding sites can also be used in conduction. And if the gate voltage is set just right, equal numbers of electrons and holes can flow through the tube in opposite directions at the same time. Irradiating such quantum dots with ultraviolet light creates excited electrons and the positive holes they leave behind. This process leaves the top and bottom surfaces with an excess of charge which attracts mobile electrons or holes. 2A place or position that needs to be filled because someone or something is no longer there. she is missed terribly and her death has left a hole in all our lives Example sentencesExamples In an emotional message days after Ivan's death, Mr Cameron told of the "hole" left in his life by the youngster's death. 2.1 A shortcoming, weakness, or flaw in a plan, argument, etc. （计划或论证中的）漏洞 intriguing as it sounds, the theory is full of holes 尽管这理论听起来引人入胜，实际上却是漏洞百出。 Example sentencesExamples It's totally daft and has plot holes you can drive a bus through. Did anyone else find the logic holes problematic? I don't believe that you can build a conclusive argument either for or against a ban, as there are inevitably going to be serious holes in both arguments. That first budget would expose the holes in their plans: how to cut tax, while maintaining spending levels on public services and levering more money out of the private sector. The agenda is interesting, but with glaring holes where the problems of the world are. People in the industry will spot holes in this legislation in all sorts of directions, and I am afraid that they have already spotted some. This leaves a hole where its positive agenda should be. One insider said the reason for the explosion of counterfeiting was the hole still existing in the law. Within 24 hr of the announcement, wily business pilots had figured out the plan was full of holes. It looks like the full report is not out until Monday, but I think I have already spotted the enormous hole in it. Is he afraid we will expose the huge holes in these fatally flawed proposals? Like too many of this government's initiatives, as soon as you start to examine the details gaping holes emerge. The hole in Jim's argument is that, before WWI, they said that capitalism wouldn't allow it. That's mainly because I love the experience of going to see a film and think that that makes up for any plot holes you may encounter. On one hand, the film is a terrible mess of plot holes, ridiculous premises, and overacting. Now, it doesn't take a genius to spot the glaring hole here. We need not only to discover what went wrong with the police - and why - but also how the CPS failed to spot the gaping holes in the evidence. Good on the surface, but as many have pointed out, all the plot holes and problems show up when you think about it for more than 10 seconds. In recent research, atmospheric scientists have been filling in holes in their basic knowledge about the ways that nature affects the chemistry of the atmosphere. It's not fact, it's a theory, with holes you can drive a truck through. Synonyms flaw, fault, defect, weakness, weak point, shortcoming, inconsistency, discrepancy, loophole, error, mistake, fallacy 3informal An unpleasant place. 〈非正式〉弹丸之地，小地方；讨厌的地方 she had wasted a whole lifetime in this hole of a town 她把一生都浪费在这个小镇上。 Example sentencesExamples Her sudden idea to bring Ryan with her, to the hole of a town she originated from, had not been discussed with him. This place is a hole, the waiters are rude, the food expensive. Four more fights in this hole before we get the hell out of here. Students were aggrieved at the possibility of being ‘stuck renting a hole in Cowley’ as Jessop put it. You have no rights, only criminals and important people have rights in this hole of a country. Synonyms hovel, slum, shack, mess informal dump, dive, pigsty, tip, joint 3.1 An awkward situation. 〈非正式〉困境，尴尬的处境 the team are in a bit of a hole and it's a case of seeing if they can dig themselves out Example sentencesExamples When you're in a hole, like we are, the challenge of leadership is a lot harder. The stage was huge - the World Cup - his team was in a hole, and the situation was certainly death or glory. It took us 20 years to get in this hole and it's going to take us 20 years to get out. The criticism of the state companies has surfaced at a time when they appear to be climbing out of the financial holes into which they stumbled in the 1990s. He pulled the club out of a big hole, but he is a businessman and he made his money back. But with the electoral countdown ticking away, his government badly needs to pull itself out of a hole. The police are incapable of satisfying all these demands, so we're in a hole. Synonyms predicament, difficult situation, awkward situation, mess, corner, tight corner, quandary, dilemma, muddle, emergency, crisis, imbroglio verb həʊlhoʊl [with object] 1Make a hole or holes in. 打洞于 a fuel tank was holed by the attack and a fire started 油箱被这次袭击打了个洞，起火了。 Example sentencesExamples This attack only managed to hole her above the waterline and set her alight. There was a tiny hut with a corrugated roof which was thoughtfully holed in several places to permit stargazing. Pumps were put on the vessel, which was holed, to keep it afloat so that boats could try and tow it from the rocks. Casualties were light but they lost one of their ships when it hit a rock and was holed. Daly, the boat is holed and fills with water at high tide. The harbourmaster assessed the wreck, which was extensively holed, as unsalvageable. The Alliance went to Bonhomme's rescue but managed to do more harm than good, holing the Bonhomme so badly that she was eventually to sink after a fierce three-and-a-half-hour battle. The tourists spoke of the moment their cruise in Antarctica turned into a real-life adventure after their liner was holed below the water line. Two days later it was holed and drifting landwards with oil gushing out of its tanks. The vessel was holed in numerous tanks with loss of crude and resultant pollution. The slick close to Spain's shores was bigger than the 5,000 tons of fuel oil spilled when the Prestige was holed off the Galician coast on November 13. The slick is estimated to contain some 11,000 tonnes of fuel oil - far bigger than the initial oil spill produced when one of the Prestige's tanks was holed, on November 13. Synonyms puncture, make a hole in, perforate, pierce, penetrate, rupture, spike, stab, split, slit, rent, lacerate, gash, gore 2Golf Hit (the ball) into a hole. 〔高尔夫〕（把球）击入洞 George holed a six-iron shot from the fairway no object he holed out for a birdie Example sentencesExamples I had to sit in the clubhouse and nervously watch as Michael holed about a 40-foot putt on No.17 for par to stay within one shot of me. What was impressive was, so shortly after holing the winning putt, just seconds after his moment of glory, Payne was thinking of my situation. Malton and Norton GC 20-handicapper Mike Punchard holed in one for the first time in 15 years of playing the game on the 169-yard 17th hole. I holed a 10-footer on the last and was sure it was going to get me in, but it didn't and it's disappointing I've not had another chance. I cut a driver into the wind to about 12 feet and although I didn't hole it for eagle, it was a birdie and a change of fortunes in the tournament. He was one of five in a play-off for three places at Princes and went through in considerable style by holing a chip from seventy feet at the first tie hole. I'm swinging the club the way I want to, the putter is okay too, it's just that I'm holing nothing. Magnificently, he holed the shot and allowed himself to smile again. But a bad drive down the 17th led to only a par and when he pulled his approach to the last 45 feet wide he needed to hole it to win or three-putt to lose. Jason Horner holed in one at the fifth in Saturday's club four-ball. I holed a good number of putts all day, including a useful eighteen footer on my last green. I wasn't at the green when he holed the putt and punched the air four or five times, but it remains one of my strongest memories, even now. Then he holed for his par and the title. It looked as though it might affect him, but he said it did not and in practice on Monday he had holed in one on the 16th, admittedly with his third attempt. Until the last putt is holed on 18, it doesn't matter. Webb made birdie from a greenside bunker, but Sorenstam duly holed for eagle. While I was there, Nicklaus holed a birdie on the 16th. Having missed the green with his approach and left with a bunker between himself and the pin, he holed the chip for a birdie to finish in 76 for a total of 152, ten over par. I holed about a 40-footer for birdie on the first hole, and Mr. McKay jumped up and high-fived me. After he holed that putt he stayed calm, kept his gum working and just raised one finger. Phrases blow a hole in Ruin the effectiveness of. 破坏有效性 the amendment could blow a hole in the legislation 修正草案会破坏该立法的有效性。 Example sentencesExamples Former Manchester United star Henning Berg hopes to bid a fond farewell to Old Trafford tomorrow by blowing a hole in his old club's title ambitions. Belle Vue's revamped side are planning to lay down a marker for a new, brighter era by blowing a hole in Oxford's Elite League title bid. A report by a top level think-tank blows a hole in Government claims that the gap between rich and poor has narrowed. The SPA, he says, blows a hole in government plans for more than 200,000 new homes by 2016 in the Thames Basin and Thames Gateway areas. If you love eating out, all you really need to know to avoid blowing a hole in your healthy eating plans is which dishes to go for and which to avoid. This is genuinely good news except for the fact that by then new genomic-based therapies will be available, blowing a hole in the national strategies. As he tries to explain this theory, Gonzales blows a hole in it himself. He said the rate of increase in current spending would have to be cut from 22% to around 10% immediately, or else it would blow a hole in the economy. The near - 16% fall in the cost of clothing and footwear over the same period tends to blow a hole in that argument. He could blow a hole in the very argument the administration was making on why we ought to go to war. Synonyms wreck, ruin, spoil, disrupt, undo, upset, play havoc with, make a mess of, put an end to, end, bring to an end, put a stop to, terminate, prevent, frustrate, blight, crush, quell, quash, dash, scotch, shatter, vitiate, blast, devastate, demolish, sabotage, torpedo in the hole informal In debt. 〈北美，非正式〉负债 we're still three thousand dollars in the hole 我们仍然负债3，000美元。 Example sentencesExamples And if things don't all go 100% perfectly, we'll be several billion dollars in the hole. Instead of paying once, you pay twice and the deeper you get in the hole, the more they control you. In other words, they planned to go in the hole, but they didn't go in the hole as much as they thought. The punishing combo of fewer jobs plus fewer hours worked has left family incomes in the hole. So the crash, when it comes, is going to leave a lot of people deep in the hole. in holes Worn so much that holes have formed. 有破洞 my clothes are in holes 我的衣服破了。 Example sentencesExamples I don't care if my clothes are in holes, or the curtains have shrunk or the rugs are threadbare. Synonyms shabby, well worn, worn, worn to shreds, threadbare, tattered, in tatters, in ribbons, in rags, in holes, holey, falling to pieces, falling apart at the seams, ragged, frayed, patched, moth-eaten, faded, seedy, shoddy, sorry, scruffy, dilapidated, crumbling, broken-down, run down, tumbledown, decrepit, deteriorated, on its last legs, having seen better days, time-worn make a hole in 打洞于 Use a large amount of. 大量耗费 holidays can make a big hole in your savings 假期会让你花掉好多存款。 Example sentencesExamples Deflation is now making the hole in banks' balance sheets much bigger. If you have set up a home and want to dress it up without making a hole in your pocket then here is an option. The markets are a cornucopia of plenty and the prices won't make a hole in your pocket. It certainly would make a hole in the $6.5 billion tax surplus that was announced yesterday. need something like a hole in the head informal Used to emphasize that someone has absolutely no need or desire for something. 〈非正式〉绝对不需要 the government needs another reorganization like a hole in the head Example sentencesExamples On the other hand, I need another expense like a hole in the head. By last week, the company needed the asbestos issue like a hole in the head. ‘We needed his injury like a hole in the head,’ said Godfrey of Smith. Theoretically, Ireland needs a rate cut like a hole in the head right now. ‘Howard needs a misfiring studio like a hole in the head,’ says a top studio executive. This club has already been dragged through the courts more than enough and needs another tribunal like a hole in the head. Phrasal Verbs hole out 1Cricket (of a batsman) hit the ball to a fielder and be caught. 〔板球〕（击球手）击球（被外场手截获而）出局 Example sentencesExamples He eventually holed out to a diving catch at deep cover by Jamie Glasson and walked off to a standing ovation. They looked to have the game won when on 125 in the 40th over Jones holed out for a hard earned 40. Tim Bresnan was run out for a duck, before Lumb holed out to Bilal Shafayat on the long-on boundary. He finally fell for 34 off 69 balls - holing out to Ricky Ponting, which brought together the partnership that all England fans had been clamouring for. Katich holed out to Jones at third man, leaving McGrath stranded 80 short of his century. 2Golf Send the ball into a hole. 〔高尔夫〕击球入洞 Example sentencesExamples As he waited to hole out on the 72nd green at Oakland Hills in 1937, Guldahl removed a comb from his pocket and coolly groomed his hair. To me, there is nothing more vital to scoring well than holing out from inside six feet or so. He holed out from the 14th fairway on Sunday for an eagle that gave him a share of the lead. Tiger Woods holes out for a birdie and is now two clear of the field. He missed a short putt on the fifth, and after holing out he dropped the ball on the green and in his frustration made a practice putt. hole up Hide oneself. 〈非正式〉躲藏，隐蔽 I holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Snowdonia 我在斯诺登尼亚的一个小村庄躲了两天。 Example sentencesExamples I panicked at the thought of driving home and gave one fleeting thought to staying, to holing up in the car for the rest of the storm, like lovers on the run. Police believe he might be holed up somewhere in southern California where he has a number of relatives. Special forces on Saturday besieging a house in the town, where five terror suspects were holed up. Today's elk are under such pressure that once the season opens they tend to hole up in the thickest cover they can find. I've come to the realization lately that I've been holing up in my apartment way too much for far too long. Having robbed her boss's safe in order to get married, she holes up overnight at the sinister Bates motel. Some 1,200 to 3,000 fighters were believed holed up in the city before the offensive. But then there was also fear that a sniper had holed up in one of the buildings down there. A Russion oil tycoon holes up in London after some dodgy dealings in his home country. The local garrison holed up in St Mary's Church and put up some tough opposition before falling to the superior Royalist forces. Synonyms hide, hide out, hide oneself, conceal oneself, secrete oneself, shelter, take cover, lie low, go to ground, go to earth, go underground Derivatives holey adjective ˈhəʊliˈhoʊli Others had big hats, including some triangular ones in the shape of holey cheese. Example sentencesExamples In front is a tatty metal-roofed house on stilts with walls of thin, holey plywood daubed in graffiti. This guy was so reluctant to spend money he actually walked around with cardboard in the bottom of his holey shoes. You're instructed to throw away all your laddered tights, holey socks and sad-looking bras. Repairing holey waders long has been one of those frustrating bits of business for waterfowlers. Origin Old English hol (noun), holian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hol (noun) 'cave', (adjective) 'hollow', and German hohl 'hollow', from an Indo-European root meaning 'cover, conceal'. Rhymes barcarole, bole, bowl, cajole, coal, Cole, condole, console, control, dhole, dole, droll, enrol (US enroll), extol, foal, goal, Joel, knoll, kohl, mol, mole, Nicole, parol, parole, patrol, pole, poll, prole, rôle, roll, scroll, Seoul, shoal, skoal, sole, soul, stole, stroll, thole, Tirol, toad-in-the-hole, toll, troll, vole, whole noun.1 phr. phr.v. Definition of hole in US English: hole nounhoʊlhōl 1A hollow place in a solid body or surface. 洞，窟窿 he dug out a small hole in the snow Example sentencesExamples There were large holes in the playing surface on one side of the pitch. He said some of the holes in the road surface were as deep as eight inches. The cheapest and most ecologically sound way to build a swimming pool is simply to hollow a hole in the ground. And, as many cyclists would testify, smooth roads without pitted surfaces and random holes would be a good start. After almost an hour, rescuers took his body from the hole, and paramedics declared him dead at the scene. The crash occurred when the truck, driving at a high speed, failed to avoid large holes in the surface of the road. He's been out in the car park for the last couple of weeks, digging a big hole in the ground. It came to rest just below the surface, leaving a hole 18 inches in diameter and sending up a large white cloud. For instance there were certain stones to be found in fields or graveyards with a hole or hollow which at times was full of water. ‘I saw women and children having to dig deep holes in the ground, often over eight metres, and climb down into them to find water,’ he said. Returning to the garbage bag, he began to dig a large hole in the ground, into which he dumped the sack. Jay mounded flour, made a hole in it, and dumped in a pinch of salt and then an egg. Just two weeks ago the bridge was temporarily closed while city officials repaired a gaping hole in its deteriorating surface. The new pictures show that most of the moon is dark, but impacts have blasted holes in the surface to reveal much brighter material underneath, which is probably a mixture of ices. They feed by probing, and leave bands of holes along a beach where they have stuck their beaks into the sand probing for food. I headed out for the backyard where I proceeded to dig about a zillion holes in the ground searching for gold doubloons. Using a pencil, tease out the young plant from the seed tray and make a hole in the compost deep enough to take the roots of the seedling. Transplant the seedlings in the normal manner by making a small hole through the surface mulch/manure and plant them into it. He dug a small hole in the ground and placed the seed in it. It took forever but soon they had dug three holes and placed the bodies inside before covering them back up. Synonyms pit, ditch, trench, cavity, crater, depression, hollow 1.1 An aperture passing through something. 孔，缝隙，洞 he had a hole in his sock 他的袜子有一个洞。 Example sentencesExamples The window pane of the restaurant was broken, leaving a hole 30 centimetres in diameter. Take a large sewing needle to puncture evenly spaced holes around the top and bottom of the shade. Cut a cross-shaped hole out of the back of your t-shirt and go get sunburnt. As the letter was carried from the FBI to the Army lab, some powder leaked from a hole in the envelope into the plastic bag containing it. I made a hole in a black bin bag and put my head through it like some sort of black, plastic tabard. Suction occurs when there is a hole or fissure in the dam wall on the upstream side, and it means death for divers. Mr Tincombe has tried various traps and boarded up holes the rats have got through, but says they are attracted by a compost bin next door. At the centre of the dome is an oculus, a circular hole, which is the only source of light. The majority of schools need some form of restoration because of crumbling walls, bullet holes, broken windows and leaking roofs. Choose a leather strap in pink, blue, white or black and then customize it by punching out the perforated holes to get your message across. Throw a towel or jacket over the bird, put it in a box or container with air holes and take it to the nearest animal shelter or wildlife rehabilitation center. The government initially said the submarine had found 14 cracks or holes through which oil was leaking. Someone had broken a hole in a meshed railing and people came through it and across the railway track to the Quay. Shattered glass on the bus seats greeted the first driver to arrive for work, who discovered that vandals had broken in through a hole in the fence. The roof is leaking, there are holes in the floor, the sewage pipes are broken, the heating doesn't work - there is no money in the kitty. Has it ever occurred to you that maybe I want holes in my socks? I also discovered that most of his socks have holes in them. We worked along the steel wall passing large circular holes where the heavy brass portholes had once been. Gaping holes puncture the walls, leaving glimpses of lifeless interiors through jagged brickwork and shattered windows. Mr Stoff said he did not find anything inside the store, but the vandals had made a hole in its window. Each acorn was cleaned, weighed, and examined for insect larvae exit holes, splits in the shell, and protruding radicles. Synonyms opening, aperture, gap, space, orifice, slot, vent, outlet, chink, breach 1.2 A cavity or receptacle on a golf course, typically one of eighteen or nine, into which the ball must be hit. （高尔夫球场的）球洞（尤指18个或9个中的一个） Example sentencesExamples There is an air of anticipation among golfers in the wake of the green light for the extension of the course to eighteen holes. Base your decision on pace depending on what will happen to the ball after the hole. Your eyes can follow the ball to the hole, but your spine angle stays the same. Although his personal tussle with partner Lyle fizzled out, Jacobson admitted he had been nervous and uncomfortable in the opening holes. I made eagle on the same hole last year and albatross this year: I'm going to struggle to keep that going next year. I tried to focus on the speed and knew my adrenaline would get the ball to the hole. This usually occurs on short putts as golfers try to steer the ball toward the hole. When your putting goes sour in the middle of a round, here's how to get the ball rolling into the hole. On the putting surface, the track of the ball to the hole is in their mind's eye as exact as the lines on a graph. So when I turned pro, one of my gimmicks was to throw my hat over the hole so the ball wouldn't pop out. As a result, they hit it, and the ball breaks across the hole and below it, and it never has a chance to go in. And if they hit the green, they hope the ball stays below the hole; anything putted from above will likely run off. Lytham is a classic seaside links, nine flattish holes out, nine flattish holes in. The big talking point was the speed of the greens and many a golfer paid the price of leaving the ball above the hole with four putts as a reward. Unfortunately, the Dingle man managed to get his ball just nine metres from the hole but it was a very credible attempt for someone unused to the tee. I thought if I could hit my lob wedge and stop the ball below the hole, I had a shot at par. You may face a longer putt by not being able to work the ball closer to the hole, but you will be safely on the green. Instead of trying to just hit the green, you're trying to get the ball close to the hole. He'd just pick the ball out of the hole, hand me the putter and beeline for the next tee. Steve Ryser and Mike Franklin sunk a long putt each on holes nine and eighteen respectively. 1.3 A hole as representing a division of a golf course or of play in golf. （表示高尔夫球场或球赛分区的）球洞 Stephen lost the first three holes to Eric 斯蒂芬前三洞输给了埃里克。 Example sentencesExamples It can be found, I think, on the golf course, when four friends gather for their weekly nine or eighteen holes. No less of an authority than Jack Nicklaus called it the hardest hole in tournament golf. So torrential was the downpour, that the fourth round, which had already started - it was 36 holes a day - was abandoned. Hoey found himself two down after the opening two holes but he had turned that deficit into a one hole advantage by lunch time. Woods found the rough with an iron at the first, thereby setting the tone for his concession of two strokes in his opening three holes. Harrington, who withdrew from the Open, was four under after nine holes but came home in 38 for a two under 70. Going back a few years, 36 holes a day was a standard in major championships. Top lawyers to play 18 holes at 18 golf courses in 12 hours to raise funds for meningitis research Yesterday, although refusing to buckle under the pressure, Montgomerie was undone by a poor putting performance over the opening nine holes. Garrido's round was achieved without the use of his driver, which he broke at the second hole on Friday. I knew I was playing pretty well when we stopped after nine holes to have lunch. I went back last year and it costs $5 to play nine holes and they do 50,000 rounds a year. He once walked off the course after only a few holes of his opening practice round and withdrew from the upcoming Wales Open. Parkin was two holes up after nine holes, scoring a birdie at the fourth and eagling the ninth to score 33. Because of this the tournament was reduced to a 36 hole event. The extent of my golf experience comes down to 18 holes on the miniature golf course at Nifty Fifty's. Despite the better ball format it took the Americans nine holes to produce a birdie, which was only good enough for a half. The Ulsterman made 32 plodding pars in his opening 36 holes. They completed 72 holes at four golf courses in one day to raise more than £10,000 for Cancer Research. I decided to play nine holes on the Notre Dame golf course early, before she met me at my dorm. 1.4 An animal's burrow. 洞穴 Example sentencesExamples Other holes have been burrowed to accommodate the reef's larger residents, which give it its popular name, Conger Alley. While walking this earth he commented that foxes had holes and birds had nests in which to live, but he had ‘nowhere to lay his head’. How convenient it was that all the prey species were excavating holes and hollows and leafy chambers. They were slippery with mud, filled with rabbit burrows and gopher holes and rather high up. Hounds that have successfully tracked a fox are trained to pull it or dig it out of its hole, and the fox is killed. From holes, burrows, and crevices, the creatures of the desert night crawled. Except when you find the foxhole and the dogs go in, there's not a fox, but a weasel cowering in the corner of the hole. Synonyms burrow, lair, den, covert, earth, sett, drey, retreat, shelter, cave 1.5in place names A valley. 山谷 Jackson Hole Example sentencesExamples Tonight's report takes us to the Grand Teton National Park, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. 1.6Physics A position from which an electron is absent, especially one regarded as a mobile carrier of positive charge in a semiconductor. 〔物〕空穴 Example sentencesExamples This process leaves the top and bottom surfaces with an excess of charge which attracts mobile electrons or holes. Electrons are not the only charge carriers; holes, or open spaces in bonding sites can also be used in conduction. Irradiating such quantum dots with ultraviolet light creates excited electrons and the positive holes they leave behind. And if the gate voltage is set just right, equal numbers of electrons and holes can flow through the tube in opposite directions at the same time. When an electron and a hole interact in a polymer, quantum mechanics tells us that their spins can combine in four different ways. 2informal A small or unpleasant place. 〈非正式〉弹丸之地，小地方；讨厌的地方 she had wasted a whole lifetime in this hole of a town 她把一生都浪费在这个小镇上。 Example sentencesExamples Students were aggrieved at the possibility of being ‘stuck renting a hole in Cowley’ as Jessop put it. Four more fights in this hole before we get the hell out of here. Her sudden idea to bring Ryan with her, to the hole of a town she originated from, had not been discussed with him. This place is a hole, the waiters are rude, the food expensive. You have no rights, only criminals and important people have rights in this hole of a country. Synonyms hovel, slum, shack, mess 2.1 An awkward situation. 〈非正式〉困境，尴尬的处境 get yourself out of a hole 摆脱尴尬处境。 Example sentencesExamples It took us 20 years to get in this hole and it's going to take us 20 years to get out. When you're in a hole, like we are, the challenge of leadership is a lot harder. The stage was huge - the World Cup - his team was in a hole, and the situation was certainly death or glory. He pulled the club out of a big hole, but he is a businessman and he made his money back. The criticism of the state companies has surfaced at a time when they appear to be climbing out of the financial holes into which they stumbled in the 1990s. But with the electoral countdown ticking away, his government badly needs to pull itself out of a hole. The police are incapable of satisfying all these demands, so we're in a hole. Synonyms predicament, difficult situation, awkward situation, mess, corner, tight corner, quandary, dilemma, muddle, emergency, crisis, imbroglio verbhoʊlhōl [with object] 1Make a hole or holes in. 打洞于 a fuel tank was holed by the attack and a fire started 油箱被这次袭击打了个洞，起火了。 Example sentencesExamples The tourists spoke of the moment their cruise in Antarctica turned into a real-life adventure after their liner was holed below the water line. Pumps were put on the vessel, which was holed, to keep it afloat so that boats could try and tow it from the rocks. The slick close to Spain's shores was bigger than the 5,000 tons of fuel oil spilled when the Prestige was holed off the Galician coast on November 13. Casualties were light but they lost one of their ships when it hit a rock and was holed. This attack only managed to hole her above the waterline and set her alight. There was a tiny hut with a corrugated roof which was thoughtfully holed in several places to permit stargazing. Two days later it was holed and drifting landwards with oil gushing out of its tanks. Daly, the boat is holed and fills with water at high tide. The slick is estimated to contain some 11,000 tonnes of fuel oil - far bigger than the initial oil spill produced when one of the Prestige's tanks was holed, on November 13. The Alliance went to Bonhomme's rescue but managed to do more harm than good, holing the Bonhomme so badly that she was eventually to sink after a fierce three-and-a-half-hour battle. The vessel was holed in numerous tanks with loss of crude and resultant pollution. The harbourmaster assessed the wreck, which was extensively holed, as unsalvageable. Synonyms puncture, make a hole in, perforate, pierce, penetrate, rupture, spike, stab, split, slit, rent, lacerate, gash, gore 2Golf Hit (the ball) so that it falls into a hole. 〔高尔夫〕（把球）击入洞 alternate shots from each partner until the ball is holed 每个伙伴交替击球，直到把球击入球洞。 no object he holed in one at the third 第三个球洞，他是一击入洞的。 Example sentencesExamples I cut a driver into the wind to about 12 feet and although I didn't hole it for eagle, it was a birdie and a change of fortunes in the tournament. Malton and Norton GC 20-handicapper Mike Punchard holed in one for the first time in 15 years of playing the game on the 169-yard 17th hole. But a bad drive down the 17th led to only a par and when he pulled his approach to the last 45 feet wide he needed to hole it to win or three-putt to lose. I had to sit in the clubhouse and nervously watch as Michael holed about a 40-foot putt on No.17 for par to stay within one shot of me. I wasn't at the green when he holed the putt and punched the air four or five times, but it remains one of my strongest memories, even now. He was one of five in a play-off for three places at Princes and went through in considerable style by holing a chip from seventy feet at the first tie hole. While I was there, Nicklaus holed a birdie on the 16th. I'm swinging the club the way I want to, the putter is okay too, it's just that I'm holing nothing. I holed a 10-footer on the last and was sure it was going to get me in, but it didn't and it's disappointing I've not had another chance. Then he holed for his par and the title. It looked as though it might affect him, but he said it did not and in practice on Monday he had holed in one on the 16th, admittedly with his third attempt. What was impressive was, so shortly after holing the winning putt, just seconds after his moment of glory, Payne was thinking of my situation. I holed a good number of putts all day, including a useful eighteen footer on my last green. Having missed the green with his approach and left with a bunker between himself and the pin, he holed the chip for a birdie to finish in 76 for a total of 152, ten over par. Webb made birdie from a greenside bunker, but Sorenstam duly holed for eagle. After he holed that putt he stayed calm, kept his gum working and just raised one finger. Magnificently, he holed the shot and allowed himself to smile again. Until the last putt is holed on 18, it doesn't matter. Jason Horner holed in one at the fifth in Saturday's club four-ball. I holed about a 40-footer for birdie on the first hole, and Mr. McKay jumped up and high-fived me. Phrases blow a hole in Ruin the effectiveness of (something) 破坏有效性 the amendment could blow a hole in the legislation 修正草案会破坏该立法的有效性。 Example sentencesExamples He said the rate of increase in current spending would have to be cut from 22% to around 10% immediately, or else it would blow a hole in the economy. The near - 16% fall in the cost of clothing and footwear over the same period tends to blow a hole in that argument. Former Manchester United star Henning Berg hopes to bid a fond farewell to Old Trafford tomorrow by blowing a hole in his old club's title ambitions. The SPA, he says, blows a hole in government plans for more than 200,000 new homes by 2016 in the Thames Basin and Thames Gateway areas. As he tries to explain this theory, Gonzales blows a hole in it himself. This is genuinely good news except for the fact that by then new genomic-based therapies will be available, blowing a hole in the national strategies. He could blow a hole in the very argument the administration was making on why we ought to go to war. If you love eating out, all you really need to know to avoid blowing a hole in your healthy eating plans is which dishes to go for and which to avoid. A report by a top level think-tank blows a hole in Government claims that the gap between rich and poor has narrowed. Belle Vue's revamped side are planning to lay down a marker for a new, brighter era by blowing a hole in Oxford's Elite League title bid. Synonyms wreck, ruin, spoil, disrupt, undo, upset, play havoc with, make a mess of, put an end to, end, bring to an end, put a stop to, terminate, prevent, frustrate, blight, crush, quell, quash, dash, scotch, shatter, vitiate, blast, devastate, demolish, sabotage, torpedo in the hole informal In debt. 〈北美，非正式〉负债 we're still three thousand dollars in the hole 我们仍然负债3，000美元。 Example sentencesExamples Instead of paying once, you pay twice and the deeper you get in the hole, the more they control you. So the crash, when it comes, is going to leave a lot of people deep in the hole. The punishing combo of fewer jobs plus fewer hours worked has left family incomes in the hole. And if things don't all go 100% perfectly, we'll be several billion dollars in the hole. In other words, they planned to go in the hole, but they didn't go in the hole as much as they thought. in holes Worn so much that holes have formed. 有破洞 my clothes are in holes 我的衣服破了。 Example sentencesExamples I don't care if my clothes are in holes, or the curtains have shrunk or the rugs are threadbare. Synonyms shabby, well worn, worn, worn to shreds, threadbare, tattered, in tatters, in ribbons, in rags, in holes, holey, falling to pieces, falling apart at the seams, ragged, frayed, patched, moth-eaten, faded, seedy, shoddy, sorry, scruffy, dilapidated, crumbling, broken-down, run down, tumbledown, decrepit, deteriorated, on its last legs, having seen better days, time-worn make a hole in 打洞于 Use a large amount of. 大量耗费 holidays can make a big hole in your savings 假期会让你花掉好多存款。 Example sentencesExamples It certainly would make a hole in the $6.5 billion tax surplus that was announced yesterday. Deflation is now making the hole in banks' balance sheets much bigger. The markets are a cornucopia of plenty and the prices won't make a hole in your pocket. If you have set up a home and want to dress it up without making a hole in your pocket then here is an option. need something like a hole in the head informal Used to emphasize that someone has absolutely no need or desire for something. 〈非正式〉绝对不需要 Example sentencesExamples ‘We needed his injury like a hole in the head,’ said Godfrey of Smith. On the other hand, I need another expense like a hole in the head. This club has already been dragged through the courts more than enough and needs another tribunal like a hole in the head. ‘Howard needs a misfiring studio like a hole in the head,’ says a top studio executive. Theoretically, Ireland needs a rate cut like a hole in the head right now. By last week, the company needed the asbestos issue like a hole in the head. Phrasal Verbs hole out Send the ball into a hole. 〔高尔夫〕击球入洞 Example sentencesExamples He holed out from the 14th fairway on Sunday for an eagle that gave him a share of the lead. He missed a short putt on the fifth, and after holing out he dropped the ball on the green and in his frustration made a practice putt. Tiger Woods holes out for a birdie and is now two clear of the field. To me, there is nothing more vital to scoring well than holing out from inside six feet or so. As he waited to hole out on the 72nd green at Oakland Hills in 1937, Guldahl removed a comb from his pocket and coolly groomed his hair. hole up Hide oneself. 〈非正式〉躲藏，隐蔽 I holed up for two days in a tiny cottage in Pennsylvania 我在斯诺登尼亚的一个小村庄躲了两天。 Example sentencesExamples I panicked at the thought of driving home and gave one fleeting thought to staying, to holing up in the car for the rest of the storm, like lovers on the run. Some 1,200 to 3,000 fighters were believed holed up in the city before the offensive. I've come to the realization lately that I've been holing up in my apartment way too much for far too long. Having robbed her boss's safe in order to get married, she holes up overnight at the sinister Bates motel. Police believe he might be holed up somewhere in southern California where he has a number of relatives. Special forces on Saturday besieging a house in the town, where five terror suspects were holed up. Today's elk are under such pressure that once the season opens they tend to hole up in the thickest cover they can find. A Russion oil tycoon holes up in London after some dodgy dealings in his home country. But then there was also fear that a sniper had holed up in one of the buildings down there. The local garrison holed up in St Mary's Church and put up some tough opposition before falling to the superior Royalist forces. Synonyms hide, hide out, hide oneself, conceal oneself, secrete oneself, shelter, take cover, lie low, go to ground, go to earth, go underground Origin Old English hol (noun), holian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hol (noun) ‘cave’, (adjective) ‘hollow’, and German hohl ‘hollow’, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘cover, conceal’. noun.1 phr. phr.v.
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