1A cylinder on which film, wire, thread, or other flexible materials can be wound.

1. 1.1 A length of something wound on to a reel.
   一卷，一盘
   a reel of copper wire

   一卷铜线。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • This presents a major problem for film historians, as improperly stored reels of nitrate film are in danger of disintegrating, or even exploding.
   • In B & Q I gave way to my evil instincts and sneaked a shot of Graham sifting through reels of electrical cable.
   • Dusenbery specialised in machines which unwind, slit and rewind large reels of material, foil and paper making them suitable for further processing or consumer use.
   • Now, we could waste a lot of time with lawyers, witnesses and reels of videotape working out who pushed who and who was provoked, who conned the referee and who was really in the wrong.
   • Surely they can stretch to a reel of fibre or at least a hub and some cat 5!
   • The film is composed of selections from one family's collection of 25 reels of home movies, shot on 8mm.
   • Says Schellhorn: ‘People are calling to see if they can buy a reel of the ad.’
   • Some two reels of this material were shot, but later scrapped by the producers who felt that it delayed the heart of the story in the New England town.
   • In 1991, the bulk of the Newton manuscripts were released on forty-three reels of microfilm.
   • Physically, they are usually simple: a reel of film, a CD, a computer disk, a sheet of printed-paper.
   • He had a large reel of cable in the loft and pulled a length through the hole to wire up the lighting rose.
   • A reel of release paper is loaded onto the machinery at 26 and is led through a variety of stages at which, one by one, the various layers of the leaflet/label are fed onto or cut in situ onto it.
   • While the companies were agreeable to continuing the program, they wanted to retain the reels of magnetic tape.
   • If you scaled up the thickness of the DNA chain to that of ordinary sewing thread, you would need a 4 kilometer reel to represent the length in an average human chromosome.
   • I filled the first two reels of film and as I took the last photo the bell blasted us all.
   • Lacey turned around and darted for the coffee table and grasped a reel of duct tape, holding it up in her hand.
   • The tide of questions washed over the whines, rumbles and screams of the chain and gave him no chance to answer as the Lab coat looped a belt around his waist and hung a reel of string from his stomach.
   • The store was an Aladdin's cave, filled with boxes of buttons, and bolts of cloth, and reels of thread in every conceivable colour and shade.
   • But gone are the days when you had to drive big metal or wooden posts into hard, rocky ground and wrestle with heavy reels of stiff wire that always wanted to go anywhere but where you wanted them to go.
   • Acres of print, reels and reels of Videotape have been expended on Beslan.
2. 1.2 A part of a movie.
   （影片的）一本
   in the final reel he is transformed from unhinged sociopath into local hero

   在影片最后一本中，他从精神变态的反社会分子变成了当地英雄。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Despite noticeable speckles, nicks and the odd scratch, the first reel of the film looks quite good with excellent contrast and sharp images.
   • I thought I was watching the last reel of a Halloween or Friday the 13th movie.
   • There's normally a moment in the first or second reel of most films when you are provided with final incontrovertible proof that it's either a masterpiece, a stinker or a kind of apathetic blah.
   • By reel three, the film has become a creature feature, as they are picked off one by one by a stealthy hunter.
   • It's technically very proficient, and revealing about contemporary life in Russia, though it does tend to fizzle out in the final reel.
   • What starts well deteriorates in the last reels of the movie.
   • Too often in these films, characters do things in the final reel that are in no way justified by their behavior for the previous seventy minutes or so.
   • By the final reel, she has mysteriously morphed into Jennifer Jason Leigh.
   • With the neighbourhood getting persistently more aggressive in its campaign against the Samuels, and David finding a place on his school cricket team, the stage is set for a dramatic final few reels.
   • Loose ends still abound in the final reel, leaving the film with a less than satisfying conclusion.
   • The eventual question is, to what lengths of madness will the obsessive Murnau go to complete the final reel of his masterwork?
   • He then escaped on a bicycle with a reel of the film under his arm.
   • Animal Factory should keep you guessing until the final reel.
   • And, of course, we suspect that one gunman will assuredly die by the final reel while the other will get the girl.
   • And so by the last reel of the film we're waiting patiently for the two main characters to meet for some major bloodletting.
   • Perhaps my favorite extra feature was the outtake reel, which lasts about 8 minutes.
   • What's more, sexual outlaws must always get their comeuppance by the final reel.
   • That also gave Hitch the opportunity to create one of the most exciting last reels of his movie career.
   • He remains ever likeable, as his efforts in matchmaking in the final reel testify, but the true star of the movie is Maura, whose scenes are the most involving and interesting.
   • Beyond that, where are the bloopers, gag reels, and other fun material?
3. 1.3 A device for winding and unwinding a line as required, in particular the line attached to a fishing rod.
   Example sentencesExamples

   • If you have a costly fly reel, I suggest you take it in your partner's handbag.
   • When I go back later this month I will be taking some extra rods, reels, lines and flies for the locals to use.
   • From Sweden we have the Loop range of fly reels.
   • No longer would you have to put a sticker on the reel to identify the line, which quickly becomes lost.
   • With Scierra stocking the house with a full range of all of their rods, reels and lines, I had the opportunity of testing many of them.
   • Shimano also manufactures fishing rods and reels, snowboard boots and bindings, and golf clubs.
   • I set up with 13 ft Shakespeare match rod and a fixed spool reel loaded with 21b line.
   • Gone are the days of aching arms from pulling hundreds of yards of used line from reels.
   • This was all brought home to me when I saw the speed at which the Tuna pulled the fly line off the reels and the heat that was generated by the friction.
   • At one time I had perhaps no more than a dozen turns of line left on the reel.
   • Mac reached around to the box and pulled out a metal rod, then a smaller reel and assembled the fishing line.
   • If you're planning to fish in saltwater then my advice is purchase a saltwater model reel.
   • Realise that no spearfish on earth pulls line off a reel like that and stop the boat instantly.
   • For several minutes the fish was boss, as it slowly and powerfully took line from the reel.
   • I shall assume that you hold the rod in your right hand and wind the reel with your left.
   • A reel should be fully loaded if the fish are large enough and fast enough to empty the reel of all the line.
   • Yet it is true to say that most anglers leave their line on a reel for far too long.
   • The boat tows the lure, the fish eats, the boat carries on, line comes off the reel and the fish is hooked.
   • The right reel and line are as important to fishing as the right bait.
   • The society sponsored fishing rods and reels for fifteen students chosen from St. Edward's, St. John's and the Mercy National School, all in Sligo town.

2A lively Scottish or Irish folk dance.

1. 2.1 A piece of music for a reel, typically in simple or duple time.
   里尔舞曲
   Example sentencesExamples

   • From early morning until late afternoon the lounge vibrated to the sound of lively jigs, reels, polkas and hornpipes played with tremendous enthusiasm by the participants.
   • Guest artist Robert Thorn and his band played a rousing selection of Scottish marches, airs and reels, and Irish and continental music.
   • Ireland has a rich folk music tradition, and ancient jigs and reels can be heard at local festivals and during informal performances at neighborhood pubs.
   • But above the hubbub, the unfamiliar strains of Scottish reels and jigs were rising on the warm air.
   • Later in Europe bones provided the rhythm to jigs and reels normally played on violin.
   • They had the audience clapping along to their lively jigs and reels.
   • Along with a group performance, the concert highlighted some great solo and duet musicians as they played a selection of lively traditional jigs, reels and polkas.
   • The 17-track album features jigs, reels, songs, waltzes, hornpipes, polkas, a two step, slow air, highland fling and recitation.
   • At the climax of ‘La Londe’, he breaks out into a spirited reel, completely changing the direction of this Baka children's song.
   • Exhilarating and highly infectious, this young Canadian folk six-piece present an anthology of Quebecois dance tunes, Celtic reels and world music.
   • Visiting Scandinavians apologised for the behaviour of Vikings - all to the exhilarating accompaniment of lively Irish reels!
   • He's more of a serial songwriter whose infatuations run from classic pedal-steel weepers to fuzz-rock stomps and wild Irish reels - sometimes on a single album.
   • A special cabaret night is in store as The Bridies give us a taste of some electrifying traditional music with funky reels from their debt album on Thursday, June 30.
   • This was followed by some lively jigs and reels in which there was much tapping of feet amongst the audience.
   • The floorboards of the Linenhall hall gently rocked as the both the audience and musicians tapped the various rhythms of jigs, reels, polkas, to name but a few!
   • Traditional Irish reels were played at relevant intervals during the Mass.
   • The off-key singing of the congregations at Church and the reels and jigs of the Connecticut fiddle players enchanted him.
   • Marrianne Carney Knight played a superb selection of Phil Cunningham reels and sang two songs including a beautiful version of ‘From Galway to Graceland’.
   • Having started out as a piper himself, Jock loves to languish in the tunes of glory, the marches and reels of the standard Scottish songbook.
   • Irish accordion player Sharon Shannon was part of O'Connor's tour band, and O'Connor repays the compliment by singing on Shannon's latest album of diverse collaborations and Irish reels.

1reel something inwith object Wind a line onto a reel by turning the reel.

1. 1.1 Bring something attached to a line, especially a fish, toward one by turning a reel and winding in the line.
   收绕钓线钓起（某物，尤指鱼）
   he struck, and reeled in a good perch

   他急拉钓线，钓起好大一条河鲈。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Mackerel are making an appearance along the western coastline and holiday markers and locals are out in force reeling them in on all kinds of tackle.
   • I had caught a fish (I, not they), and I was reeling it in (I, not they), and they would be eating it tonight (they, not I. Again, I don't like fish.)
   • I reeled it in, took it off my line, tossed it back in, re-baited my line, tossed it back in too, and promptly fell asleep again.
   • When the wind blows, the fly fisherman keeps on casting and reeling them in!
   • Then, all you have do is reel it in, lift your prize aloft, smile and get your photograph taken.
   • She was reeling it in when she said, ‘Sam, I need some help!’
   • He reeled the fish in (not without getting a ton of moss stuck on the line, of course) quickly.
   • I reeled it in, and with a flick of my wrist, I tossed my catch onboard.
   • I'm trying to reel them in and throw them squiggling into the boat.
   • The tension in it was greatly reduced and he was slowly reeling the fish in.
   • At the same time the other anglers on the boat will need to reel their baits in to give the hooked-up angler room to fight the fish and eliminate the chance of tangling lines.
   • As he was reeling his prospective dinner in the rope began to jerk from side to side.
   • He would catch the clients and reel them in like fish.
   • The fish can bite your line all day, but if you can't reel them in, you're in trouble.
   • Before he knew it, a fish was tugging on the line, and he reeled it in.
   • Anglers often have long rods and when they have caught something take up the whole path reeling something in.
   • But, inexorably, he reeled it in, thrashing and squirming.
   • The problem with using baited feathers is that invariably the fish will spin as you reel them in, especially if you pick up an occasional pouting as well.
   • It's good to read essays whose writer doesn't feel they have to be sold, to have hooks to reel a reader in or to immediately distill or even necessarily imply their main thrust.
   • He reeled it in and had a two foot long bass in the hook.

2no object Lose one's balance and stagger or lurch violently.

他一拳狠狠打在康纳利耳部，把他打了个趔趄。

她摇晃后退，靠上了车。

1. 2.1with adverbial of direction Walk in a staggering or lurching manner, especially while drunk.
   （尤指醉酒）走路踉跄
   the two reeled out of the bar arm in arm

   两个人臂挽着臂，踉踉跄跄地出了酒吧。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The man exclaimed in shock and pain, reeling out of the bush.
   • ‘It is humiliating to see people reeling around dead drunk on a Friday or Saturday night,’ she says.
   • He reeled away with the force of the impact, before staggering slightly and regaining balance.
   • The shot caught me low at the side of my back and I staggered with the impact, reeling into the wall as pain almost immobilized me.
   • He shouted as the man reeled away from Rubiss, staggering to one knee under the force of the blow.
   • The cat reeled backwards violently, clamping the collar of Maryn's tunic in its jaw.
   • He reeled away from me, a string of violent curses flying from his mouth.
   • Danny was downbeat and self-absorbed, reeling from one personal incident to the next like a ship without a compass, and his friends were a mixed bunch of dipsomaniacs and egotists.
   • Diners are discreetly shielded from the gaze of drinkers reeling past outside by the kind of blinds you often find on Greek or Italian restaurants.
   • Olga Knipper-Chekhova reeled back in shock and collapsed behind the curtain in confusion and terror.
2. 2.2 Feel very giddy, disoriented, or bewildered, typically as a result of an unexpected setback.
   （因突然受挫）晕眩，茫然，不知所措
   the unaccustomed intake of alcohol made my head reel

   很少喝烈酒的我感到头晕目眩。

   figurative the nationalist government is already reeling from 225 percent monthly inflation

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   • Unprecedented grassroots activism by civic groups has sent political circles reeling from shock.
   • She was still reeling from the shock of hearing Lily's confession, and now this.
   • ‘At the moment people are reeling from the shock, but soon I think they're going to start considering the future,’ said Mr Palmer.
   • Farmers are reeling from the latest shock to hit their industry, as a devastating livestock disease made its first appearance in Britain for 20 years.
   • Armagh were still reeling from the hammer-blow of losing their influential captain Kieran McGeeney before the throw-in.
   • They are still reeling from recently losing one of their own teenage daughters.
   • The Bruins are reeling, having lost six of seven.
   • Senator Higgins said the community was still obviously reeling in shock at how such a gruesome tragedy should happen in the midst of a tight knit community and nobody was aware of it.
   • Angry East Sheen residents determined to prevent the demolition of an Edwardian house were left reeling this week after amendments were made to a planning application on the site.
   • Vanzie is still reeling from losing his latest bid to win back the British lightweight title he held for nearly five years.
   • I cannot believe that another attack can be right - however justified it may seem to a nation reeling with shock and anger.
   • His family said they were still reeling in shock, but expressed their deepest gratitude to all the people who tried to save him.
   • Although figures are unavailable, many of the New Orleans city workers losing their jobs are still reeling from the loss of their homes as a result of the Katrina disaster.
   • Shoppers and traders are reeling after a shock announcement that one of the New Forest's most popular markets is to close next week.
   • The mind reels at the possibilities such a truly balanced ticket would offer.
   • I mean, Dobson alone is bad enough, but a Dobson armed with nuclear weapons - the mind reels.
   • By the time the others went to find her, she was on her way to the airport and a flight to London, leaving her unsuspecting bandmates reeling with shock and anger.
   • But even when I smiled, I found the tears threatening to invade my smile. My heart bleeds inside and my head reels.
   • Jubilant residents are still reeling in shock after an sudden announcement that plans for a youth jail in Brentwood have been scrapped.
   • It is not just the supporters of York City Football Club who have been left reeling by the shock announcement that the club is up for sale.

   Synonyms

   be shaken by, be stunned by, be in shock after, be shocked by, be numb from, be dazed by, be taken aback by, be staggered by, be aghast at, be dumbfounded at, be dumbstruck at, be upset by, be bowled over by, feel dizzy from, feel giddy from, feel confused by

3no object Dance a reel.