Definition of barrel in English:

barrel

nounPlural barrels ˈbar(ə)lˈbɛrəl

1A cylindrical container bulging out in the middle, traditionally made of wooden staves with metal hoops round them.
桶（传统上以木条和铁箍制成）
the wine is then matured in old barrels
Example sentencesExamples
- The final scene in the wine cellar became much more realistic and professional with the introduction of dark lighting, wine barrels and metal gate.
- Modern farming generates a significant amount of waste such as fertiliser bags, silage wrapping, barrels, scrap metal fencing wire drums and strings from bales.
- The owner produces it in small quantities and he matures it in earthenware containers rather than in wooden barrels as most vineyards do today.
- Its a patriotic American living thing and it arrives in a traditional hoop bound oak stave barrel half all ready to be planted in Washington DC.
- The butter made at the summer dairies was easily stored in wooden boxes and small barrels and during the winter was an important complement to most foods.
- Transfer to a wooden barrel or similar container and leave to cool down to a temperature of around 16 degrees Celsius.
- Shelley reached out and ran a finger along the wooden stock and metal barrel.
- There were cobwebs and old wooden crates and barrels scattered carelessly about; evidently, this place had once been used for storage.
- Organic containers such as leather or wooden wine barrels may also have travelled north into Europe but have not survived.
- This port is put into wooden port barrels or pipes, but instead of just two years in oak as in the case of a declared vintage port, it spends four to six years in barrel.
- If your garden space is limited, try planting bluebonnets in containers such as large clay pots, wooden barrels, or planter boxes.
- Use what you have - rocks, broken-up concrete, logs, old metal barrels or even sawhorses.
- The masseur took a wooden barrel containing liquid medicine that compounds 28 kinds of Chinese herbal medicine.
- Butter has been stored and shipped in wooden barrels, casks, tubs, and eventually paraffin paper and parchment.
- Reports by the Heilongjiang Daily and Xinhua News Agency said five metal barrels were uncovered at a construction site in the city on August 4.
- The building itself was made out of wood, and contained several rusted metal barrels and crates.
- The coopers walk round the barrel knocking down the temporary iron hoops.
- Back then the barrels were wooden and extremely heavy it was hard work.
- Many gardeners enjoy planting violas in windowboxes, cedar deck planters, wooden half barrels, and a host of other containers.
- They develop in almost any container that collects rainwater, such as barrels, tanks, old tires, cups, cans, and bottles.
Synonyms
cask, keg, butt, vat, tun, tub, drum, tank, firkin, hogshead, kilderkin, pin, pipe, barrique
Spanish solera
historical puncheon, tierce
1. 1.1 A barrel together with its contents.
  一桶之量
  a barrel of beer
  一桶啤酒。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The benchmark price for a barrel of crude for delivery in December slipped below $20 as the slowdown in the world economy, coupled with the warm winter, has caused demand to fall.
  A barrel of wood preservative caught fire and exploded leaving nine-year-old Stephen with extensive burns from which he died.
  The protest came as the price of a barrel of light crude oil rose to $55.82, edging back towards the all-time record of $58.28 seen at the start of April.
  The rule of thumb is that every $10 per barrel increase in the price of a barrel of oil shaves half a percentage point off of GDP growth.
  The latest incident came as concerns over the security of world oil supplies mounted and the price of a barrel of crude on the London market passed $54 for the first time.
  Clooney struts around grizzled, looking like he had just bathed in a barrel of trout entrails.
  Maybe it's an ode to l' grand Bacchus… Maybe if we eat them we'll morph into a barrel of wine… Are we on a date?
  The bathhouse evolved from a creek-side fire pit into an indoor washing room that heats a barrel of water for all your scrubbing needs.
  But I remember messengers coming to my father's house with tales of catastrophes that happened in where there was a barrel of wash ready to be distilled.
  Robert Johnson sold his soul to play guitar and Keith Richards sold his for a barrel of booze, but The Boggs' murky flint comes from smoking the ashes of both those devilish contracts.
  An American television network reported that initial tests on a barrel of chemicals found by US forces in northern Iraq had detected nerve and blistering agents.
  Twenty-first century conservation harnesses new technology to squeeze as much out of a barrel of oil as we have learned to squeeze out of a computer chip.
  When the euro and the dollar were at about parity, and oil was selling for $40 a barrel, it took €40 to buy a barrel of oil.
  And he loved to tell the yarn about how he and a pal pilfered a barrel of whiskey out from under the noses of the police during Prohibition.
  As the easy stuff is used up, we arrive at the point where we must finally expend a whole barrel of oil to produce a barrel of oil.
  With a barrel of gunpowder between your legs its difficult to recall the details of your past.
  In the cart house across the street, swept clean in advance, a barrel of Guinness was set on a trestle and the black stuff was dispensed to all comers.
  In the North Sea it costs between $10 and $12 to extract a barrel of crude compared to just $5 in Saudi Arabia.
  The winning team will receive a barrel of Guinness.
  One Lewis seaman at Trafalgar lost his leg below the knee and to stop the bleeding put his leg into a barrel of tar.
2. 1.2 A measure of capacity used for oil and beer, usually equal to 36 imperial gallons for beer and 35 imperial gallons or 42 US gallons (roughly 159 litres) for oil.
  桶（油或啤酒的容积单位，通常相当于36英制加仑啤酒，35英制加仑或42美制加仑约合192升油）
  the well was producing 10,000 barrels a day
  Example sentencesExamples
  From 200 tons of turkey waste this plant can produce roughly 450 barrels of oil a day, which is being sold commercially.
  Anheuser-Busch, which sold almost 110 million barrels of beer worldwide last year, finds the Sunshine State a thirsty one.
  A new refinery will be constructed in central Iraq, with a production capacity of 30,000 barrels per day.
  Look, generally speaking $1 a barrel is roughly a cent a litre, maybe slightly less.
  By 1911 the Moturoa oilfield had three wells producing around 110 barrels of oil a week.
  Overall, the refineries have a combined capacity of 1.05 million barrels per day.
  The two-year-old plant has the capacity to make 3,000 barrels of crude biofuel each week.
  The cask in which Ronald Huckvale will be placed on his 21st birthday will be a ponto - the equivalent in gallonage to four barrels.
  Asia uses roughly 20 million barrels daily for 3.6 billion people (including India).
  Richard and Jude produce 15 barrels of beer a week at present and soon hope to take on their first full time employee.
  A brewer's barrel holds 36 gallons, they produce 120 a week.
  Annual capacity would be 200,000 tonnes, equivalent to 1.7 million barrels or 1.97 million hectolitres of beer.
  The pipeline has the capacity to carry 250,000 barrels of oil a day.
  The tanker Jessica - carrying some 7700 barrels of fuel - ran aground on Tuesday.
  South Africa has the most important refineries in the region with a total capacity of 650 000 barrels per day.
  Ten years ago we had about 5 million barrels of spare capacity.
  In 2001, the industry produced more than 6.2 million barrels of craft beer in the United States.
  Plus, good to the last gallon or barrel: we'll hear from an author who says oil is running out and fast.
  By 1985 there was still 15 million barrels per day spare capacity, about a quarter of world demand at the time.
  Supply from Iraq, which daily pumped at most half of its estimated 2.1 million barrels capacity last year, remains uncertain.
2A tube forming part of an object such as a gun or a pen.
枪管；笔杆
a gun barrel
Example sentencesExamples
- On the shallow side of the bridge we found the C gun turret, its barrel pointed slightly down towards the deck.
- All he saw was the barrel of a gun pointed in his face.
- They are the Mom and Dad and kids walking to work or school while looking for a gun barrel pointed at them from a white van.
- Beside it, another tense wooden spar holds an inscribed scarf and an enigmatic black tube resembling a rifle barrel.
- As Mr Smith got into Hickson's van, Hickson fired off both barrels of the gun, one blast hitting him in the neck, the other hitting the driver's seat.
- So there we were, on that dusty street in ‘High Noon’ eyeing each other down the barrels of our guns.
- The original bunker busters used in the first gulf war were made from the barrels of large navel guns filled with 250 lbs of explosives and fitted with guiding fins.
- For more than a decade, we knew only one thing, to settle arguments through the barrels of our guns.
- On each side of his head, above each ear, were black metal guns with their narrow barrels pointed forwards connected by a black band around the back of his head.
- Instead of using explosives to propel a shell out of a gun barrel, a rail gun uses magnetism to speed a projectile along two rails.
- Criminals could learn to defeat this system by altering the gun barrel with an instrument, but the system could prove useful.
- That is, with both shotgun barrels, a sub-machine gun, and a howitzer.
- Lior, approaching ever closer, saw the terrorist run up to the jeep and point the barrel of his gun directly at the head of one of the unconscious policemen.
- He stared at the floating gun, the barrel of which was pointed at him.
- Eries raised his gun and pointed its barrel at two lone guards on the far side of the light.
- My biggest nemesis began to quiver as I pointed the barrel of his own gun at him.
- Lou quickly pushed the gun down so the barrel pointed the ground.
- She felt the barrel of a gun pointed at the back of her head.
- She started to point the barrel of her gun at his forehead.
- The Rakais warrior brought the heavy barrel of the rail gun to bear on the armor not more than a hundred meters from his position and pressed a small switch on the weapon's handle.
3The belly and loins of a four-legged animal such as a horse.
（马等四足动物的）躯干
a Welsh mountain pony with a barrel like a butt of wine
Example sentencesExamples
- His long legs stretched well past her barrel which hampered her a bit, but Myrick was an well done rider and did his best to make her journey smooth.
- He fell with a bubbling gurgle, and Bahzell put his armored shoulder into the barrel of his companion's rearing horse.
- When it slides off the wither down to mid back, the girth is no longer at the barrel of the horse.
- Some of us took that moment to stuff Pop-Tarts left from breakfast into the barrel of the wooden horse's belly.

verbbarrels, barrelled, barreling, barreled, barrelling ˈbar(ə)lˈbɛrəl

1North American informal no object, with adverbial of direction Drive or move in a way that is so fast as to almost be out of control.
〈非正式，主北美〉高速行驶；飞奔
we barrelled across the Everglades
Example sentencesExamples
- So, as you might imagine, a planet wide radar would obviously detect a ship barreling down at full speed with all weapons blazing.
- It barrels down the tracks so fast, he thinks, that it can't stop.
- He came barrelling forward charging Brian like a bull.
- Erin was supposed to be watching for race cars barreling down the road, but he was busy describing his adventures at the mini-games park to Mr. Saturn.
- She dribbled up the middle and rather than stopping when she saw Jaelyn in front of her she barreled on charging her friend and making the shot.
- The Shadow Warrior was barreling down fast, he was just about to run over the top of Harry when… BAAAAM!
- The driver lost control and barrelled off the road narrowly missing one of the other jeeps as he did.
- The impact caused the car to swerve 180 degrees, and it completely missed the conveyor belt, instead barreling toward the very small office of Mr. Vanderjagt.
- Most people would have panicked and fled at the sight of such a huge creature barreling forward at high speed with intent to kill.
- The idea would have been appealing, had we not been traveling at 65 mph on the highway, with tractor-trailers barreling along beside us.
- Corks's eyes shot open as a heavily damaged Dominion Interceptor barreled toward them out of control.
- Two four-wheeled drives barrelled over the crossing, somehow missing him.
- So insignificant, but I was walking home very late and in my rush almost barreled into a woman who was intensely trying to fish out some candy from a pesky wrapper.
- Walker says the police barreled toward the vigil too fast for safety.
- This week, another runaway dump truck from a local construction site barrelled out of control down one of West Vancouver's steep streets.
- Jerry yelled as he barreled down the rubberized stairs to the band room.
- They were barreling along much like monkeys, swinging their legs forward then their arms, hissing and screeching the entire time.
- Lian is barreling down the corridor blasting anything in sight.
- Chris barreled toward her nervous stature at a fast speed, his long arms wrapping themselves around her frame as he spun her around.
- The old-school wheeled contraption barreled down the road faster than Marcus or Trevor expected.
Synonyms
hurry, race, run, sprint, dash, bolt, dart, rush, hasten, hurtle, career, streak, shoot, whizz, zoom, go like lightning, go hell for leather, spank along, bowl along, rattle along, whirl, whoosh, buzz, swoop, flash, blast, charge, stampede, gallop, sweep, hare, fly, wing, scurry, scud, scutter, scramble
2with object Put into a barrel or barrels.
把…装桶
when the young spirit is barrelled, it absorbs some of this flavour
Example sentencesExamples
- Barreling your beer is much less messy and time-consuming than using bottles.
- The natural pressure will build up during the secondary fermentation, caused by the addition of priming sugar and barreling the beer before the yeast has died.
- All waste oil is barreled for pick up by a waste oil burning company.

Phrases

a barrel of laughs

informal with negativeA source of fun or amusement.
〈非正式〉快乐之源
life is not exactly a barrel of laughs at the moment
此刻生活并非欢乐无限。
Example sentencesExamples
- Well, here's one parent who's a whole barrel of laughs.
- An event that has raised more than £2,000 for breast cancer was a barrel of laughs on Saturday.
- Chuck (played with masterful restraint by Peter Sarsgaard) is a paternal authority figure and not a barrel of laughs.
- Geez, the Timmons family reunions must be a real barrel of laughs.
- A disparate group meeting for weekly tap dance lessons might not sound like a barrel of laughs but that's exactly what Stepping Out is.
- The trouble is that despite some good moments, an appearance by Tom Waits and the warm endorsement of this columnist, Witness is hardly a barrel of laughs for the casual listener.
- Life in Pink Floyd never looked like a barrel of laughs.
- Can she really believe that Julius Caesar is a barrel of laughs?
- In the meantime my boyfriend has to manage my moods, which vary from avoidance, sullen whining and self-doubt - not exactly a barrel of laughs!
- Being Chief Justice (he got the job last week) is not a barrel of laughs.
Synonyms
joker, comedian, comic, humorist, wag, wit, funny man, funny woman, prankster, jokester, clown, buffoon, character

on the barrel

(of payment) without delay.
I gotta be paid cash on the barrel
Example sentencesExamples
- So Moron gets the bright idea that instead of taking out a loan from Venezuela, we will pay cash on the barrel but ask for a reduction in the price.
- Why not just hand out talking points to these guys instead of cash on the barrel?
- Adam knew his father always liked to pay up front for his purchases, always called it ‘cash on the barrel.’

over a barrel

informal In a helpless position; at someone's mercy.
〈非正式〉处于不利（或无助）地位；受制于人
I like doing business with a man who knows he's over a barrel
我喜欢和明白自己受制于人的人做生意。
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘I felt I was being held over a barrel - I did not have time to find anywhere else, so it was that or nothing,’ said Wilkins, her rent now £2,003 a month.
- The award also upped his asking price, supposes Broadbent, ‘although, if you're intent upon doing good work, producers know they have you over a barrel.’
- Opec, the powerful consortium of the world's oil-producing countries, meets in Vienna today, and they have us over a barrel as the oil price hits $35.
- Like many of the video covers they show, they have you over a barrel and the price is slightly higher than it should be.
- Bill Greenshields, secretary of the National Union of Teachers in Derbyshire, says the staff feel they are being put over a barrel.
- Supermarkets have the farmer over a barrel, he suggested.
- Because the collective wisdom of industrial relations seems to be, that if you have your opponent over a barrel, you can name your price.
- The radio stations dictate success or failure for most artists, and have the record companies over a barrel.
- We've got you over a barrel, because you and your taxpayers have no choice but to see this through, so why should we pay?
- We've got them over a barrel now, they are already trying to settle!

with both barrels

informal With unrestrained force or emotion.
〈非正式，主美〉全力以赴；全情投入
cut to the quick, he let go with both barrels
Example sentencesExamples
- Excellent ministers, who have helped improve this country greatly over the past seven years, let me have it with both barrels.
- And she didn't need you hauling off and hitting her with both barrels like that!
- As the Celtic manager gave it to referee John Rowbotham with both barrels, Young attempted to calm him down.
- By this time both Patsy and Desmond were dead, but the oldest of their grieving children, Cassandra, let fly with both barrels at Rantzen's ‘cruel and vicious account’.
- Don Henley lets the music industry have it with both barrels in a Washington Post editorial: When I started in the music business, music was important and vital to our culture.
- Anyone who attempted to explore this issue was likely to be shouted down with charges of ‘racist’, and Blainey suffered the treatment with both barrels.
- Christopher Hitchens, never a shrinking violet, lets his old comrades, the loony left, have it with both barrels in today's Washington Post.
- Dan McNutt, underwhelmed by the grovelling that has occurred recently regarding certain sports ‘heroes’, lets fly with both barrels again.
- I gave it to them with both barrels after the game, even though I know it could get me into trouble.
- He paused for a pull on his Coors, then added, ‘I want you to give us hell tomorrow and give it to us with both barrels.’

Origin

Middle English: from Old French baril, from medieval Latin barriclus 'small cask'.

This word goes back to Latin barillus ‘small cask’. Before refrigerators made domestic life easier, the barrel used for storage was a more familiar object. Various phrases refer back to those earlier days. To have someone over a barrel is to have them in a helpless position, at one's mercy. People rescued from drowning would be laid face down over a barrel to help the water drain out of their lungs, and it is possible that the idea of helplessness developed into one of coercion, although the phrase could derive from the idea of someone forced to lie over a barrel to be flogged. If you scrape the barrel (or the bottom of the barrel) you are reduced to using things or people of the poorest quality because there is nothing else available. Neither of these is recorded until the early 20th century.

Rhymes

apparel, carol, Carole, carrel, Carroll, Darrell, Darryl, Farrell

Definition of barrel in US English:

barrel

nounˈberəlˈbɛrəl

1A cylindrical container bulging out in the middle, traditionally made of wooden staves with metal hoops around them.
桶（传统上以木条和铁箍制成）
Example sentencesExamples
- Reports by the Heilongjiang Daily and Xinhua News Agency said five metal barrels were uncovered at a construction site in the city on August 4.
- Use what you have - rocks, broken-up concrete, logs, old metal barrels or even sawhorses.
- The butter made at the summer dairies was easily stored in wooden boxes and small barrels and during the winter was an important complement to most foods.
- Modern farming generates a significant amount of waste such as fertiliser bags, silage wrapping, barrels, scrap metal fencing wire drums and strings from bales.
- Organic containers such as leather or wooden wine barrels may also have travelled north into Europe but have not survived.
- The owner produces it in small quantities and he matures it in earthenware containers rather than in wooden barrels as most vineyards do today.
- The masseur took a wooden barrel containing liquid medicine that compounds 28 kinds of Chinese herbal medicine.
- Transfer to a wooden barrel or similar container and leave to cool down to a temperature of around 16 degrees Celsius.
- The coopers walk round the barrel knocking down the temporary iron hoops.
- If your garden space is limited, try planting bluebonnets in containers such as large clay pots, wooden barrels, or planter boxes.
- Its a patriotic American living thing and it arrives in a traditional hoop bound oak stave barrel half all ready to be planted in Washington DC.
- The final scene in the wine cellar became much more realistic and professional with the introduction of dark lighting, wine barrels and metal gate.
- Butter has been stored and shipped in wooden barrels, casks, tubs, and eventually paraffin paper and parchment.
- Many gardeners enjoy planting violas in windowboxes, cedar deck planters, wooden half barrels, and a host of other containers.
- There were cobwebs and old wooden crates and barrels scattered carelessly about; evidently, this place had once been used for storage.
- They develop in almost any container that collects rainwater, such as barrels, tanks, old tires, cups, cans, and bottles.
- This port is put into wooden port barrels or pipes, but instead of just two years in oak as in the case of a declared vintage port, it spends four to six years in barrel.
- The building itself was made out of wood, and contained several rusted metal barrels and crates.
- Back then the barrels were wooden and extremely heavy it was hard work.
- Shelley reached out and ran a finger along the wooden stock and metal barrel.
Synonyms
cask, keg, butt, vat, tun, tub, drum, tank, firkin, hogshead, kilderkin, pin, pipe, barrique
1. 1.1 A barrel together with its contents.
  一桶之量
  a barrel of beer
  一桶啤酒。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Maybe it's an ode to l' grand Bacchus… Maybe if we eat them we'll morph into a barrel of wine… Are we on a date?
  One Lewis seaman at Trafalgar lost his leg below the knee and to stop the bleeding put his leg into a barrel of tar.
  The protest came as the price of a barrel of light crude oil rose to $55.82, edging back towards the all-time record of $58.28 seen at the start of April.
  As the easy stuff is used up, we arrive at the point where we must finally expend a whole barrel of oil to produce a barrel of oil.
  When the euro and the dollar were at about parity, and oil was selling for $40 a barrel, it took €40 to buy a barrel of oil.
  Twenty-first century conservation harnesses new technology to squeeze as much out of a barrel of oil as we have learned to squeeze out of a computer chip.
  But I remember messengers coming to my father's house with tales of catastrophes that happened in where there was a barrel of wash ready to be distilled.
  A barrel of wood preservative caught fire and exploded leaving nine-year-old Stephen with extensive burns from which he died.
  An American television network reported that initial tests on a barrel of chemicals found by US forces in northern Iraq had detected nerve and blistering agents.
  And he loved to tell the yarn about how he and a pal pilfered a barrel of whiskey out from under the noses of the police during Prohibition.
  The rule of thumb is that every $10 per barrel increase in the price of a barrel of oil shaves half a percentage point off of GDP growth.
  Clooney struts around grizzled, looking like he had just bathed in a barrel of trout entrails.
  Robert Johnson sold his soul to play guitar and Keith Richards sold his for a barrel of booze, but The Boggs' murky flint comes from smoking the ashes of both those devilish contracts.
  In the North Sea it costs between $10 and $12 to extract a barrel of crude compared to just $5 in Saudi Arabia.
  With a barrel of gunpowder between your legs its difficult to recall the details of your past.
  The winning team will receive a barrel of Guinness.
  The bathhouse evolved from a creek-side fire pit into an indoor washing room that heats a barrel of water for all your scrubbing needs.
  The benchmark price for a barrel of crude for delivery in December slipped below $20 as the slowdown in the world economy, coupled with the warm winter, has caused demand to fall.
  The latest incident came as concerns over the security of world oil supplies mounted and the price of a barrel of crude on the London market passed $54 for the first time.
  In the cart house across the street, swept clean in advance, a barrel of Guinness was set on a trestle and the black stuff was dispensed to all comers.
2. 1.2 A measure of capacity used for oil and beer, usually equal to 36 imperial gallons for beer and 35 imperial gallons or 42 US gallons (roughly 159 liters) for oil.
  桶（油或啤酒的容积单位，通常相当于36英制加仑啤酒，35英制加仑或42美制加仑约合192升油）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The tanker Jessica - carrying some 7700 barrels of fuel - ran aground on Tuesday.
  Look, generally speaking $1 a barrel is roughly a cent a litre, maybe slightly less.
  Anheuser-Busch, which sold almost 110 million barrels of beer worldwide last year, finds the Sunshine State a thirsty one.
  The two-year-old plant has the capacity to make 3,000 barrels of crude biofuel each week.
  Ten years ago we had about 5 million barrels of spare capacity.
  A new refinery will be constructed in central Iraq, with a production capacity of 30,000 barrels per day.
  Asia uses roughly 20 million barrels daily for 3.6 billion people (including India).
  From 200 tons of turkey waste this plant can produce roughly 450 barrels of oil a day, which is being sold commercially.
  By 1985 there was still 15 million barrels per day spare capacity, about a quarter of world demand at the time.
  Overall, the refineries have a combined capacity of 1.05 million barrels per day.
  Supply from Iraq, which daily pumped at most half of its estimated 2.1 million barrels capacity last year, remains uncertain.
  Plus, good to the last gallon or barrel: we'll hear from an author who says oil is running out and fast.
  Annual capacity would be 200,000 tonnes, equivalent to 1.7 million barrels or 1.97 million hectolitres of beer.
  The pipeline has the capacity to carry 250,000 barrels of oil a day.
  The cask in which Ronald Huckvale will be placed on his 21st birthday will be a ponto - the equivalent in gallonage to four barrels.
  South Africa has the most important refineries in the region with a total capacity of 650 000 barrels per day.
  Richard and Jude produce 15 barrels of beer a week at present and soon hope to take on their first full time employee.
  In 2001, the industry produced more than 6.2 million barrels of craft beer in the United States.
  A brewer's barrel holds 36 gallons, they produce 120 a week.
  By 1911 the Moturoa oilfield had three wells producing around 110 barrels of oil a week.
2A tube forming part of an object such as a gun or a pen.
枪管；笔杆
Example sentencesExamples
- Beside it, another tense wooden spar holds an inscribed scarf and an enigmatic black tube resembling a rifle barrel.
- On each side of his head, above each ear, were black metal guns with their narrow barrels pointed forwards connected by a black band around the back of his head.
- That is, with both shotgun barrels, a sub-machine gun, and a howitzer.
- Instead of using explosives to propel a shell out of a gun barrel, a rail gun uses magnetism to speed a projectile along two rails.
- Lior, approaching ever closer, saw the terrorist run up to the jeep and point the barrel of his gun directly at the head of one of the unconscious policemen.
- She felt the barrel of a gun pointed at the back of her head.
- He stared at the floating gun, the barrel of which was pointed at him.
- The Rakais warrior brought the heavy barrel of the rail gun to bear on the armor not more than a hundred meters from his position and pressed a small switch on the weapon's handle.
- As Mr Smith got into Hickson's van, Hickson fired off both barrels of the gun, one blast hitting him in the neck, the other hitting the driver's seat.
- Lou quickly pushed the gun down so the barrel pointed the ground.
- For more than a decade, we knew only one thing, to settle arguments through the barrels of our guns.
- Criminals could learn to defeat this system by altering the gun barrel with an instrument, but the system could prove useful.
- On the shallow side of the bridge we found the C gun turret, its barrel pointed slightly down towards the deck.
- The original bunker busters used in the first gulf war were made from the barrels of large navel guns filled with 250 lbs of explosives and fitted with guiding fins.
- All he saw was the barrel of a gun pointed in his face.
- My biggest nemesis began to quiver as I pointed the barrel of his own gun at him.
- She started to point the barrel of her gun at his forehead.
- Eries raised his gun and pointed its barrel at two lone guards on the far side of the light.
- They are the Mom and Dad and kids walking to work or school while looking for a gun barrel pointed at them from a white van.
- So there we were, on that dusty street in ‘High Noon’ eyeing each other down the barrels of our guns.
3The belly and loins of a four-legged animal such as a horse.
（马等四足动物的）躯干
Example sentencesExamples
- When it slides off the wither down to mid back, the girth is no longer at the barrel of the horse.
- His long legs stretched well past her barrel which hampered her a bit, but Myrick was an well done rider and did his best to make her journey smooth.
- Some of us took that moment to stuff Pop-Tarts left from breakfast into the barrel of the wooden horse's belly.
- He fell with a bubbling gurgle, and Bahzell put his armored shoulder into the barrel of his companion's rearing horse.

verbˈberəlˈbɛrəl

1North American informal no object, with adverbial of direction Drive or move in a way that is so fast as to almost be out of control.
〈非正式，主北美〉高速行驶；飞奔
we barreled across the Everglades
they were barreling along the Ventura freeway
Example sentencesExamples
- Corks's eyes shot open as a heavily damaged Dominion Interceptor barreled toward them out of control.
- He came barrelling forward charging Brian like a bull.
- Walker says the police barreled toward the vigil too fast for safety.
- They were barreling along much like monkeys, swinging their legs forward then their arms, hissing and screeching the entire time.
- Lian is barreling down the corridor blasting anything in sight.
- Two four-wheeled drives barrelled over the crossing, somehow missing him.
- The impact caused the car to swerve 180 degrees, and it completely missed the conveyor belt, instead barreling toward the very small office of Mr. Vanderjagt.
- This week, another runaway dump truck from a local construction site barrelled out of control down one of West Vancouver's steep streets.
- It barrels down the tracks so fast, he thinks, that it can't stop.
- Jerry yelled as he barreled down the rubberized stairs to the band room.
- Most people would have panicked and fled at the sight of such a huge creature barreling forward at high speed with intent to kill.
- So, as you might imagine, a planet wide radar would obviously detect a ship barreling down at full speed with all weapons blazing.
- Erin was supposed to be watching for race cars barreling down the road, but he was busy describing his adventures at the mini-games park to Mr. Saturn.
- The old-school wheeled contraption barreled down the road faster than Marcus or Trevor expected.
- Chris barreled toward her nervous stature at a fast speed, his long arms wrapping themselves around her frame as he spun her around.
- The idea would have been appealing, had we not been traveling at 65 mph on the highway, with tractor-trailers barreling along beside us.
- She dribbled up the middle and rather than stopping when she saw Jaelyn in front of her she barreled on charging her friend and making the shot.
- The Shadow Warrior was barreling down fast, he was just about to run over the top of Harry when… BAAAAM!
- The driver lost control and barrelled off the road narrowly missing one of the other jeeps as he did.
- So insignificant, but I was walking home very late and in my rush almost barreled into a woman who was intensely trying to fish out some candy from a pesky wrapper.
Synonyms
hurry, race, run, sprint, dash, bolt, dart, rush, hasten, hurtle, career, streak, shoot, whizz, zoom, go like lightning, go hell for leather, spank along, bowl along, rattle along, whirl, whoosh, buzz, swoop, flash, blast, charge, stampede, gallop, sweep, hare, fly, wing, scurry, scud, scutter, scramble
2with object Put into a barrel or barrels.
把…装桶
Example sentencesExamples
- All waste oil is barreled for pick up by a waste oil burning company.
- The natural pressure will build up during the secondary fermentation, caused by the addition of priming sugar and barreling the beer before the yeast has died.
- Barreling your beer is much less messy and time-consuming than using bottles.

Phrases

a barrel of laughs

informal with negativeA source of fun or amusement.
〈非正式〉快乐之源
life is not exactly a barrel of laughs at the moment
此刻生活并非欢乐无限。
Example sentencesExamples
- The trouble is that despite some good moments, an appearance by Tom Waits and the warm endorsement of this columnist, Witness is hardly a barrel of laughs for the casual listener.
- An event that has raised more than £2,000 for breast cancer was a barrel of laughs on Saturday.
- Chuck (played with masterful restraint by Peter Sarsgaard) is a paternal authority figure and not a barrel of laughs.
- Geez, the Timmons family reunions must be a real barrel of laughs.
- Can she really believe that Julius Caesar is a barrel of laughs?
- Being Chief Justice (he got the job last week) is not a barrel of laughs.
- A disparate group meeting for weekly tap dance lessons might not sound like a barrel of laughs but that's exactly what Stepping Out is.
- Well, here's one parent who's a whole barrel of laughs.
- Life in Pink Floyd never looked like a barrel of laughs.
- In the meantime my boyfriend has to manage my moods, which vary from avoidance, sullen whining and self-doubt - not exactly a barrel of laughs!
Synonyms
joker, comedian, comic, humorist, wag, wit, funny man, funny woman, prankster, jokester, clown, buffoon, character

on the barrel

(of payment) without delay.
I gotta be paid cash on the barrel
Example sentencesExamples
- Adam knew his father always liked to pay up front for his purchases, always called it ‘cash on the barrel.’
- Why not just hand out talking points to these guys instead of cash on the barrel?
- So Moron gets the bright idea that instead of taking out a loan from Venezuela, we will pay cash on the barrel but ask for a reduction in the price.

over a barrel

informal In a helpless position; at someone's mercy.
〈非正式〉处于不利（或无助）地位；受制于人
Example sentencesExamples
- Like many of the video covers they show, they have you over a barrel and the price is slightly higher than it should be.
- We've got you over a barrel, because you and your taxpayers have no choice but to see this through, so why should we pay?
- Supermarkets have the farmer over a barrel, he suggested.
- The radio stations dictate success or failure for most artists, and have the record companies over a barrel.
- We've got them over a barrel now, they are already trying to settle!
- The award also upped his asking price, supposes Broadbent, ‘although, if you're intent upon doing good work, producers know they have you over a barrel.’
- Bill Greenshields, secretary of the National Union of Teachers in Derbyshire, says the staff feel they are being put over a barrel.
- Opec, the powerful consortium of the world's oil-producing countries, meets in Vienna today, and they have us over a barrel as the oil price hits $35.
- ‘I felt I was being held over a barrel - I did not have time to find anywhere else, so it was that or nothing,’ said Wilkins, her rent now £2,003 a month.
- Because the collective wisdom of industrial relations seems to be, that if you have your opponent over a barrel, you can name your price.

with both barrels

informal With unrestrained force or emotion.
〈非正式，主美〉全力以赴；全情投入
Example sentencesExamples
- Anyone who attempted to explore this issue was likely to be shouted down with charges of ‘racist’, and Blainey suffered the treatment with both barrels.
- And she didn't need you hauling off and hitting her with both barrels like that!
- By this time both Patsy and Desmond were dead, but the oldest of their grieving children, Cassandra, let fly with both barrels at Rantzen's ‘cruel and vicious account’.
- Christopher Hitchens, never a shrinking violet, lets his old comrades, the loony left, have it with both barrels in today's Washington Post.
- He paused for a pull on his Coors, then added, ‘I want you to give us hell tomorrow and give it to us with both barrels.’
- Don Henley lets the music industry have it with both barrels in a Washington Post editorial: When I started in the music business, music was important and vital to our culture.
- Dan McNutt, underwhelmed by the grovelling that has occurred recently regarding certain sports ‘heroes’, lets fly with both barrels again.
- As the Celtic manager gave it to referee John Rowbotham with both barrels, Young attempted to calm him down.
- I gave it to them with both barrels after the game, even though I know it could get me into trouble.
- Excellent ministers, who have helped improve this country greatly over the past seven years, let me have it with both barrels.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French baril, from medieval Latin barriclus ‘small cask’.

词汇	barrel
释义	Definition of barrel in English: barrel nounPlural barrels ˈbar(ə)lˈbɛrəl 1A cylindrical container bulging out in the middle, traditionally made of wooden staves with metal hoops round them. 桶（传统上以木条和铁箍制成） the wine is then matured in old barrels Example sentencesExamples The final scene in the wine cellar became much more realistic and professional with the introduction of dark lighting, wine barrels and metal gate. Modern farming generates a significant amount of waste such as fertiliser bags, silage wrapping, barrels, scrap metal fencing wire drums and strings from bales. The owner produces it in small quantities and he matures it in earthenware containers rather than in wooden barrels as most vineyards do today. Its a patriotic American living thing and it arrives in a traditional hoop bound oak stave barrel half all ready to be planted in Washington DC. The butter made at the summer dairies was easily stored in wooden boxes and small barrels and during the winter was an important complement to most foods. Transfer to a wooden barrel or similar container and leave to cool down to a temperature of around 16 degrees Celsius. Shelley reached out and ran a finger along the wooden stock and metal barrel. There were cobwebs and old wooden crates and barrels scattered carelessly about; evidently, this place had once been used for storage. Organic containers such as leather or wooden wine barrels may also have travelled north into Europe but have not survived. This port is put into wooden port barrels or pipes, but instead of just two years in oak as in the case of a declared vintage port, it spends four to six years in barrel. If your garden space is limited, try planting bluebonnets in containers such as large clay pots, wooden barrels, or planter boxes. Use what you have - rocks, broken-up concrete, logs, old metal barrels or even sawhorses. The masseur took a wooden barrel containing liquid medicine that compounds 28 kinds of Chinese herbal medicine. Butter has been stored and shipped in wooden barrels, casks, tubs, and eventually paraffin paper and parchment. Reports by the Heilongjiang Daily and Xinhua News Agency said five metal barrels were uncovered at a construction site in the city on August 4. The building itself was made out of wood, and contained several rusted metal barrels and crates. The coopers walk round the barrel knocking down the temporary iron hoops. Back then the barrels were wooden and extremely heavy it was hard work. Many gardeners enjoy planting violas in windowboxes, cedar deck planters, wooden half barrels, and a host of other containers. They develop in almost any container that collects rainwater, such as barrels, tanks, old tires, cups, cans, and bottles. Synonyms cask, keg, butt, vat, tun, tub, drum, tank, firkin, hogshead, kilderkin, pin, pipe, barrique Spanish solera historical puncheon, tierce 1.1 A barrel together with its contents. 一桶之量 a barrel of beer 一桶啤酒。 Example sentencesExamples The benchmark price for a barrel of crude for delivery in December slipped below $20 as the slowdown in the world economy, coupled with the warm winter, has caused demand to fall. A barrel of wood preservative caught fire and exploded leaving nine-year-old Stephen with extensive burns from which he died. The protest came as the price of a barrel of light crude oil rose to $55.82, edging back towards the all-time record of $58.28 seen at the start of April. The rule of thumb is that every $10 per barrel increase in the price of a barrel of oil shaves half a percentage point off of GDP growth. The latest incident came as concerns over the security of world oil supplies mounted and the price of a barrel of crude on the London market passed $54 for the first time. Clooney struts around grizzled, looking like he had just bathed in a barrel of trout entrails. Maybe it's an ode to l' grand Bacchus… Maybe if we eat them we'll morph into a barrel of wine… Are we on a date? The bathhouse evolved from a creek-side fire pit into an indoor washing room that heats a barrel of water for all your scrubbing needs. But I remember messengers coming to my father's house with tales of catastrophes that happened in where there was a barrel of wash ready to be distilled. Robert Johnson sold his soul to play guitar and Keith Richards sold his for a barrel of booze, but The Boggs' murky flint comes from smoking the ashes of both those devilish contracts. An American television network reported that initial tests on a barrel of chemicals found by US forces in northern Iraq had detected nerve and blistering agents. Twenty-first century conservation harnesses new technology to squeeze as much out of a barrel of oil as we have learned to squeeze out of a computer chip. When the euro and the dollar were at about parity, and oil was selling for $40 a barrel, it took €40 to buy a barrel of oil. And he loved to tell the yarn about how he and a pal pilfered a barrel of whiskey out from under the noses of the police during Prohibition. As the easy stuff is used up, we arrive at the point where we must finally expend a whole barrel of oil to produce a barrel of oil. With a barrel of gunpowder between your legs its difficult to recall the details of your past. In the cart house across the street, swept clean in advance, a barrel of Guinness was set on a trestle and the black stuff was dispensed to all comers. In the North Sea it costs between $10 and $12 to extract a barrel of crude compared to just $5 in Saudi Arabia. The winning team will receive a barrel of Guinness. One Lewis seaman at Trafalgar lost his leg below the knee and to stop the bleeding put his leg into a barrel of tar. 1.2 A measure of capacity used for oil and beer, usually equal to 36 imperial gallons for beer and 35 imperial gallons or 42 US gallons (roughly 159 litres) for oil. 桶（油或啤酒的容积单位，通常相当于36英制加仑啤酒，35英制加仑或42美制加仑约合192升油） the well was producing 10,000 barrels a day Example sentencesExamples From 200 tons of turkey waste this plant can produce roughly 450 barrels of oil a day, which is being sold commercially. Anheuser-Busch, which sold almost 110 million barrels of beer worldwide last year, finds the Sunshine State a thirsty one. A new refinery will be constructed in central Iraq, with a production capacity of 30,000 barrels per day. Look, generally speaking $1 a barrel is roughly a cent a litre, maybe slightly less. By 1911 the Moturoa oilfield had three wells producing around 110 barrels of oil a week. Overall, the refineries have a combined capacity of 1.05 million barrels per day. The two-year-old plant has the capacity to make 3,000 barrels of crude biofuel each week. The cask in which Ronald Huckvale will be placed on his 21st birthday will be a ponto - the equivalent in gallonage to four barrels. Asia uses roughly 20 million barrels daily for 3.6 billion people (including India). Richard and Jude produce 15 barrels of beer a week at present and soon hope to take on their first full time employee. A brewer's barrel holds 36 gallons, they produce 120 a week. Annual capacity would be 200,000 tonnes, equivalent to 1.7 million barrels or 1.97 million hectolitres of beer. The pipeline has the capacity to carry 250,000 barrels of oil a day. The tanker Jessica - carrying some 7700 barrels of fuel - ran aground on Tuesday. South Africa has the most important refineries in the region with a total capacity of 650 000 barrels per day. Ten years ago we had about 5 million barrels of spare capacity. In 2001, the industry produced more than 6.2 million barrels of craft beer in the United States. Plus, good to the last gallon or barrel: we'll hear from an author who says oil is running out and fast. By 1985 there was still 15 million barrels per day spare capacity, about a quarter of world demand at the time. Supply from Iraq, which daily pumped at most half of its estimated 2.1 million barrels capacity last year, remains uncertain. 2A tube forming part of an object such as a gun or a pen. 枪管；笔杆 a gun barrel Example sentencesExamples On the shallow side of the bridge we found the C gun turret, its barrel pointed slightly down towards the deck. All he saw was the barrel of a gun pointed in his face. They are the Mom and Dad and kids walking to work or school while looking for a gun barrel pointed at them from a white van. Beside it, another tense wooden spar holds an inscribed scarf and an enigmatic black tube resembling a rifle barrel. As Mr Smith got into Hickson's van, Hickson fired off both barrels of the gun, one blast hitting him in the neck, the other hitting the driver's seat. So there we were, on that dusty street in ‘High Noon’ eyeing each other down the barrels of our guns. The original bunker busters used in the first gulf war were made from the barrels of large navel guns filled with 250 lbs of explosives and fitted with guiding fins. For more than a decade, we knew only one thing, to settle arguments through the barrels of our guns. On each side of his head, above each ear, were black metal guns with their narrow barrels pointed forwards connected by a black band around the back of his head. Instead of using explosives to propel a shell out of a gun barrel, a rail gun uses magnetism to speed a projectile along two rails. Criminals could learn to defeat this system by altering the gun barrel with an instrument, but the system could prove useful. That is, with both shotgun barrels, a sub-machine gun, and a howitzer. Lior, approaching ever closer, saw the terrorist run up to the jeep and point the barrel of his gun directly at the head of one of the unconscious policemen. He stared at the floating gun, the barrel of which was pointed at him. Eries raised his gun and pointed its barrel at two lone guards on the far side of the light. My biggest nemesis began to quiver as I pointed the barrel of his own gun at him. Lou quickly pushed the gun down so the barrel pointed the ground. She felt the barrel of a gun pointed at the back of her head. She started to point the barrel of her gun at his forehead. The Rakais warrior brought the heavy barrel of the rail gun to bear on the armor not more than a hundred meters from his position and pressed a small switch on the weapon's handle. 3The belly and loins of a four-legged animal such as a horse. （马等四足动物的）躯干 a Welsh mountain pony with a barrel like a butt of wine Example sentencesExamples His long legs stretched well past her barrel which hampered her a bit, but Myrick was an well done rider and did his best to make her journey smooth. He fell with a bubbling gurgle, and Bahzell put his armored shoulder into the barrel of his companion's rearing horse. When it slides off the wither down to mid back, the girth is no longer at the barrel of the horse. Some of us took that moment to stuff Pop-Tarts left from breakfast into the barrel of the wooden horse's belly. verbbarrels, barrelled, barreling, barreled, barrelling ˈbar(ə)lˈbɛrəl 1North American informal no object, with adverbial of direction Drive or move in a way that is so fast as to almost be out of control. 〈非正式，主北美〉高速行驶；飞奔 we barrelled across the Everglades Example sentencesExamples So, as you might imagine, a planet wide radar would obviously detect a ship barreling down at full speed with all weapons blazing. It barrels down the tracks so fast, he thinks, that it can't stop. He came barrelling forward charging Brian like a bull. Erin was supposed to be watching for race cars barreling down the road, but he was busy describing his adventures at the mini-games park to Mr. Saturn. She dribbled up the middle and rather than stopping when she saw Jaelyn in front of her she barreled on charging her friend and making the shot. The Shadow Warrior was barreling down fast, he was just about to run over the top of Harry when… BAAAAM! The driver lost control and barrelled off the road narrowly missing one of the other jeeps as he did. The impact caused the car to swerve 180 degrees, and it completely missed the conveyor belt, instead barreling toward the very small office of Mr. Vanderjagt. Most people would have panicked and fled at the sight of such a huge creature barreling forward at high speed with intent to kill. The idea would have been appealing, had we not been traveling at 65 mph on the highway, with tractor-trailers barreling along beside us. Corks's eyes shot open as a heavily damaged Dominion Interceptor barreled toward them out of control. Two four-wheeled drives barrelled over the crossing, somehow missing him. So insignificant, but I was walking home very late and in my rush almost barreled into a woman who was intensely trying to fish out some candy from a pesky wrapper. Walker says the police barreled toward the vigil too fast for safety. This week, another runaway dump truck from a local construction site barrelled out of control down one of West Vancouver's steep streets. Jerry yelled as he barreled down the rubberized stairs to the band room. They were barreling along much like monkeys, swinging their legs forward then their arms, hissing and screeching the entire time. Lian is barreling down the corridor blasting anything in sight. Chris barreled toward her nervous stature at a fast speed, his long arms wrapping themselves around her frame as he spun her around. The old-school wheeled contraption barreled down the road faster than Marcus or Trevor expected. Synonyms hurry, race, run, sprint, dash, bolt, dart, rush, hasten, hurtle, career, streak, shoot, whizz, zoom, go like lightning, go hell for leather, spank along, bowl along, rattle along, whirl, whoosh, buzz, swoop, flash, blast, charge, stampede, gallop, sweep, hare, fly, wing, scurry, scud, scutter, scramble 2with object Put into a barrel or barrels. 把…装桶 when the young spirit is barrelled, it absorbs some of this flavour Example sentencesExamples Barreling your beer is much less messy and time-consuming than using bottles. The natural pressure will build up during the secondary fermentation, caused by the addition of priming sugar and barreling the beer before the yeast has died. All waste oil is barreled for pick up by a waste oil burning company. Phrases a barrel of laughs informal with negativeA source of fun or amusement. 〈非正式〉快乐之源 life is not exactly a barrel of laughs at the moment 此刻生活并非欢乐无限。 Example sentencesExamples Well, here's one parent who's a whole barrel of laughs. An event that has raised more than £2,000 for breast cancer was a barrel of laughs on Saturday. Chuck (played with masterful restraint by Peter Sarsgaard) is a paternal authority figure and not a barrel of laughs. Geez, the Timmons family reunions must be a real barrel of laughs. A disparate group meeting for weekly tap dance lessons might not sound like a barrel of laughs but that's exactly what Stepping Out is. The trouble is that despite some good moments, an appearance by Tom Waits and the warm endorsement of this columnist, Witness is hardly a barrel of laughs for the casual listener. Life in Pink Floyd never looked like a barrel of laughs. Can she really believe that Julius Caesar is a barrel of laughs? In the meantime my boyfriend has to manage my moods, which vary from avoidance, sullen whining and self-doubt - not exactly a barrel of laughs! Being Chief Justice (he got the job last week) is not a barrel of laughs. Synonyms joker, comedian, comic, humorist, wag, wit, funny man, funny woman, prankster, jokester, clown, buffoon, character on the barrel (of payment) without delay. I gotta be paid cash on the barrel Example sentencesExamples So Moron gets the bright idea that instead of taking out a loan from Venezuela, we will pay cash on the barrel but ask for a reduction in the price. Why not just hand out talking points to these guys instead of cash on the barrel? Adam knew his father always liked to pay up front for his purchases, always called it ‘cash on the barrel.’ over a barrel informal In a helpless position; at someone's mercy. 〈非正式〉处于不利（或无助）地位；受制于人 I like doing business with a man who knows he's over a barrel 我喜欢和明白自己受制于人的人做生意。 Example sentencesExamples ‘I felt I was being held over a barrel - I did not have time to find anywhere else, so it was that or nothing,’ said Wilkins, her rent now £2,003 a month. The award also upped his asking price, supposes Broadbent, ‘although, if you're intent upon doing good work, producers know they have you over a barrel.’ Opec, the powerful consortium of the world's oil-producing countries, meets in Vienna today, and they have us over a barrel as the oil price hits $35. Like many of the video covers they show, they have you over a barrel and the price is slightly higher than it should be. Bill Greenshields, secretary of the National Union of Teachers in Derbyshire, says the staff feel they are being put over a barrel. Supermarkets have the farmer over a barrel, he suggested. Because the collective wisdom of industrial relations seems to be, that if you have your opponent over a barrel, you can name your price. The radio stations dictate success or failure for most artists, and have the record companies over a barrel. We've got you over a barrel, because you and your taxpayers have no choice but to see this through, so why should we pay? We've got them over a barrel now, they are already trying to settle! with both barrels informal With unrestrained force or emotion. 〈非正式，主美〉全力以赴；全情投入 cut to the quick, he let go with both barrels Example sentencesExamples Excellent ministers, who have helped improve this country greatly over the past seven years, let me have it with both barrels. And she didn't need you hauling off and hitting her with both barrels like that! As the Celtic manager gave it to referee John Rowbotham with both barrels, Young attempted to calm him down. By this time both Patsy and Desmond were dead, but the oldest of their grieving children, Cassandra, let fly with both barrels at Rantzen's ‘cruel and vicious account’. Don Henley lets the music industry have it with both barrels in a Washington Post editorial: When I started in the music business, music was important and vital to our culture. Anyone who attempted to explore this issue was likely to be shouted down with charges of ‘racist’, and Blainey suffered the treatment with both barrels. Christopher Hitchens, never a shrinking violet, lets his old comrades, the loony left, have it with both barrels in today's Washington Post. Dan McNutt, underwhelmed by the grovelling that has occurred recently regarding certain sports ‘heroes’, lets fly with both barrels again. I gave it to them with both barrels after the game, even though I know it could get me into trouble. He paused for a pull on his Coors, then added, ‘I want you to give us hell tomorrow and give it to us with both barrels.’ Origin Middle English: from Old French baril, from medieval Latin barriclus 'small cask'. This word goes back to Latin barillus ‘small cask’. Before refrigerators made domestic life easier, the barrel used for storage was a more familiar object. Various phrases refer back to those earlier days. To have someone over a barrel is to have them in a helpless position, at one's mercy. People rescued from drowning would be laid face down over a barrel to help the water drain out of their lungs, and it is possible that the idea of helplessness developed into one of coercion, although the phrase could derive from the idea of someone forced to lie over a barrel to be flogged. If you scrape the barrel (or the bottom of the barrel) you are reduced to using things or people of the poorest quality because there is nothing else available. Neither of these is recorded until the early 20th century. Rhymes apparel, carol, Carole, carrel, Carroll, Darrell, Darryl, Farrell noun.1 phr. Definition of barrel in US English: barrel nounˈberəlˈbɛrəl 1A cylindrical container bulging out in the middle, traditionally made of wooden staves with metal hoops around them. 桶（传统上以木条和铁箍制成） Example sentencesExamples Reports by the Heilongjiang Daily and Xinhua News Agency said five metal barrels were uncovered at a construction site in the city on August 4. Use what you have - rocks, broken-up concrete, logs, old metal barrels or even sawhorses. The butter made at the summer dairies was easily stored in wooden boxes and small barrels and during the winter was an important complement to most foods. Modern farming generates a significant amount of waste such as fertiliser bags, silage wrapping, barrels, scrap metal fencing wire drums and strings from bales. Organic containers such as leather or wooden wine barrels may also have travelled north into Europe but have not survived. The owner produces it in small quantities and he matures it in earthenware containers rather than in wooden barrels as most vineyards do today. The masseur took a wooden barrel containing liquid medicine that compounds 28 kinds of Chinese herbal medicine. Transfer to a wooden barrel or similar container and leave to cool down to a temperature of around 16 degrees Celsius. The coopers walk round the barrel knocking down the temporary iron hoops. If your garden space is limited, try planting bluebonnets in containers such as large clay pots, wooden barrels, or planter boxes. Its a patriotic American living thing and it arrives in a traditional hoop bound oak stave barrel half all ready to be planted in Washington DC. The final scene in the wine cellar became much more realistic and professional with the introduction of dark lighting, wine barrels and metal gate. Butter has been stored and shipped in wooden barrels, casks, tubs, and eventually paraffin paper and parchment. Many gardeners enjoy planting violas in windowboxes, cedar deck planters, wooden half barrels, and a host of other containers. There were cobwebs and old wooden crates and barrels scattered carelessly about; evidently, this place had once been used for storage. They develop in almost any container that collects rainwater, such as barrels, tanks, old tires, cups, cans, and bottles. This port is put into wooden port barrels or pipes, but instead of just two years in oak as in the case of a declared vintage port, it spends four to six years in barrel. The building itself was made out of wood, and contained several rusted metal barrels and crates. Back then the barrels were wooden and extremely heavy it was hard work. Shelley reached out and ran a finger along the wooden stock and metal barrel. Synonyms cask, keg, butt, vat, tun, tub, drum, tank, firkin, hogshead, kilderkin, pin, pipe, barrique 1.1 A barrel together with its contents. 一桶之量 a barrel of beer 一桶啤酒。 Example sentencesExamples Maybe it's an ode to l' grand Bacchus… Maybe if we eat them we'll morph into a barrel of wine… Are we on a date? One Lewis seaman at Trafalgar lost his leg below the knee and to stop the bleeding put his leg into a barrel of tar. The protest came as the price of a barrel of light crude oil rose to $55.82, edging back towards the all-time record of $58.28 seen at the start of April. As the easy stuff is used up, we arrive at the point where we must finally expend a whole barrel of oil to produce a barrel of oil. When the euro and the dollar were at about parity, and oil was selling for $40 a barrel, it took €40 to buy a barrel of oil. Twenty-first century conservation harnesses new technology to squeeze as much out of a barrel of oil as we have learned to squeeze out of a computer chip. But I remember messengers coming to my father's house with tales of catastrophes that happened in where there was a barrel of wash ready to be distilled. A barrel of wood preservative caught fire and exploded leaving nine-year-old Stephen with extensive burns from which he died. An American television network reported that initial tests on a barrel of chemicals found by US forces in northern Iraq had detected nerve and blistering agents. And he loved to tell the yarn about how he and a pal pilfered a barrel of whiskey out from under the noses of the police during Prohibition. The rule of thumb is that every $10 per barrel increase in the price of a barrel of oil shaves half a percentage point off of GDP growth. Clooney struts around grizzled, looking like he had just bathed in a barrel of trout entrails. Robert Johnson sold his soul to play guitar and Keith Richards sold his for a barrel of booze, but The Boggs' murky flint comes from smoking the ashes of both those devilish contracts. In the North Sea it costs between $10 and $12 to extract a barrel of crude compared to just $5 in Saudi Arabia. With a barrel of gunpowder between your legs its difficult to recall the details of your past. The winning team will receive a barrel of Guinness. The bathhouse evolved from a creek-side fire pit into an indoor washing room that heats a barrel of water for all your scrubbing needs. The benchmark price for a barrel of crude for delivery in December slipped below $20 as the slowdown in the world economy, coupled with the warm winter, has caused demand to fall. The latest incident came as concerns over the security of world oil supplies mounted and the price of a barrel of crude on the London market passed $54 for the first time. In the cart house across the street, swept clean in advance, a barrel of Guinness was set on a trestle and the black stuff was dispensed to all comers. 1.2 A measure of capacity used for oil and beer, usually equal to 36 imperial gallons for beer and 35 imperial gallons or 42 US gallons (roughly 159 liters) for oil. 桶（油或啤酒的容积单位，通常相当于36英制加仑啤酒，35英制加仑或42美制加仑约合192升油） Example sentencesExamples The tanker Jessica - carrying some 7700 barrels of fuel - ran aground on Tuesday. Look, generally speaking $1 a barrel is roughly a cent a litre, maybe slightly less. Anheuser-Busch, which sold almost 110 million barrels of beer worldwide last year, finds the Sunshine State a thirsty one. The two-year-old plant has the capacity to make 3,000 barrels of crude biofuel each week. Ten years ago we had about 5 million barrels of spare capacity. A new refinery will be constructed in central Iraq, with a production capacity of 30,000 barrels per day. Asia uses roughly 20 million barrels daily for 3.6 billion people (including India). From 200 tons of turkey waste this plant can produce roughly 450 barrels of oil a day, which is being sold commercially. By 1985 there was still 15 million barrels per day spare capacity, about a quarter of world demand at the time. Overall, the refineries have a combined capacity of 1.05 million barrels per day. Supply from Iraq, which daily pumped at most half of its estimated 2.1 million barrels capacity last year, remains uncertain. Plus, good to the last gallon or barrel: we'll hear from an author who says oil is running out and fast. Annual capacity would be 200,000 tonnes, equivalent to 1.7 million barrels or 1.97 million hectolitres of beer. The pipeline has the capacity to carry 250,000 barrels of oil a day. The cask in which Ronald Huckvale will be placed on his 21st birthday will be a ponto - the equivalent in gallonage to four barrels. South Africa has the most important refineries in the region with a total capacity of 650 000 barrels per day. Richard and Jude produce 15 barrels of beer a week at present and soon hope to take on their first full time employee. In 2001, the industry produced more than 6.2 million barrels of craft beer in the United States. A brewer's barrel holds 36 gallons, they produce 120 a week. By 1911 the Moturoa oilfield had three wells producing around 110 barrels of oil a week. 2A tube forming part of an object such as a gun or a pen. 枪管；笔杆 Example sentencesExamples Beside it, another tense wooden spar holds an inscribed scarf and an enigmatic black tube resembling a rifle barrel. On each side of his head, above each ear, were black metal guns with their narrow barrels pointed forwards connected by a black band around the back of his head. That is, with both shotgun barrels, a sub-machine gun, and a howitzer. Instead of using explosives to propel a shell out of a gun barrel, a rail gun uses magnetism to speed a projectile along two rails. Lior, approaching ever closer, saw the terrorist run up to the jeep and point the barrel of his gun directly at the head of one of the unconscious policemen. She felt the barrel of a gun pointed at the back of her head. He stared at the floating gun, the barrel of which was pointed at him. The Rakais warrior brought the heavy barrel of the rail gun to bear on the armor not more than a hundred meters from his position and pressed a small switch on the weapon's handle. As Mr Smith got into Hickson's van, Hickson fired off both barrels of the gun, one blast hitting him in the neck, the other hitting the driver's seat. Lou quickly pushed the gun down so the barrel pointed the ground. For more than a decade, we knew only one thing, to settle arguments through the barrels of our guns. Criminals could learn to defeat this system by altering the gun barrel with an instrument, but the system could prove useful. On the shallow side of the bridge we found the C gun turret, its barrel pointed slightly down towards the deck. The original bunker busters used in the first gulf war were made from the barrels of large navel guns filled with 250 lbs of explosives and fitted with guiding fins. All he saw was the barrel of a gun pointed in his face. My biggest nemesis began to quiver as I pointed the barrel of his own gun at him. She started to point the barrel of her gun at his forehead. Eries raised his gun and pointed its barrel at two lone guards on the far side of the light. They are the Mom and Dad and kids walking to work or school while looking for a gun barrel pointed at them from a white van. So there we were, on that dusty street in ‘High Noon’ eyeing each other down the barrels of our guns. 3The belly and loins of a four-legged animal such as a horse. （马等四足动物的）躯干 Example sentencesExamples When it slides off the wither down to mid back, the girth is no longer at the barrel of the horse. His long legs stretched well past her barrel which hampered her a bit, but Myrick was an well done rider and did his best to make her journey smooth. Some of us took that moment to stuff Pop-Tarts left from breakfast into the barrel of the wooden horse's belly. He fell with a bubbling gurgle, and Bahzell put his armored shoulder into the barrel of his companion's rearing horse. verbˈberəlˈbɛrəl 1North American informal no object, with adverbial of direction Drive or move in a way that is so fast as to almost be out of control. 〈非正式，主北美〉高速行驶；飞奔 we barreled across the Everglades they were barreling along the Ventura freeway Example sentencesExamples Corks's eyes shot open as a heavily damaged Dominion Interceptor barreled toward them out of control. He came barrelling forward charging Brian like a bull. Walker says the police barreled toward the vigil too fast for safety. They were barreling along much like monkeys, swinging their legs forward then their arms, hissing and screeching the entire time. Lian is barreling down the corridor blasting anything in sight. Two four-wheeled drives barrelled over the crossing, somehow missing him. The impact caused the car to swerve 180 degrees, and it completely missed the conveyor belt, instead barreling toward the very small office of Mr. Vanderjagt. This week, another runaway dump truck from a local construction site barrelled out of control down one of West Vancouver's steep streets. It barrels down the tracks so fast, he thinks, that it can't stop. Jerry yelled as he barreled down the rubberized stairs to the band room. Most people would have panicked and fled at the sight of such a huge creature barreling forward at high speed with intent to kill. So, as you might imagine, a planet wide radar would obviously detect a ship barreling down at full speed with all weapons blazing. Erin was supposed to be watching for race cars barreling down the road, but he was busy describing his adventures at the mini-games park to Mr. Saturn. The old-school wheeled contraption barreled down the road faster than Marcus or Trevor expected. Chris barreled toward her nervous stature at a fast speed, his long arms wrapping themselves around her frame as he spun her around. The idea would have been appealing, had we not been traveling at 65 mph on the highway, with tractor-trailers barreling along beside us. She dribbled up the middle and rather than stopping when she saw Jaelyn in front of her she barreled on charging her friend and making the shot. The Shadow Warrior was barreling down fast, he was just about to run over the top of Harry when… BAAAAM! The driver lost control and barrelled off the road narrowly missing one of the other jeeps as he did. So insignificant, but I was walking home very late and in my rush almost barreled into a woman who was intensely trying to fish out some candy from a pesky wrapper. Synonyms hurry, race, run, sprint, dash, bolt, dart, rush, hasten, hurtle, career, streak, shoot, whizz, zoom, go like lightning, go hell for leather, spank along, bowl along, rattle along, whirl, whoosh, buzz, swoop, flash, blast, charge, stampede, gallop, sweep, hare, fly, wing, scurry, scud, scutter, scramble 2with object Put into a barrel or barrels. 把…装桶 Example sentencesExamples All waste oil is barreled for pick up by a waste oil burning company. The natural pressure will build up during the secondary fermentation, caused by the addition of priming sugar and barreling the beer before the yeast has died. Barreling your beer is much less messy and time-consuming than using bottles. Phrases a barrel of laughs informal with negativeA source of fun or amusement. 〈非正式〉快乐之源 life is not exactly a barrel of laughs at the moment 此刻生活并非欢乐无限。 Example sentencesExamples The trouble is that despite some good moments, an appearance by Tom Waits and the warm endorsement of this columnist, Witness is hardly a barrel of laughs for the casual listener. An event that has raised more than £2,000 for breast cancer was a barrel of laughs on Saturday. Chuck (played with masterful restraint by Peter Sarsgaard) is a paternal authority figure and not a barrel of laughs. Geez, the Timmons family reunions must be a real barrel of laughs. Can she really believe that Julius Caesar is a barrel of laughs? Being Chief Justice (he got the job last week) is not a barrel of laughs. A disparate group meeting for weekly tap dance lessons might not sound like a barrel of laughs but that's exactly what Stepping Out is. Well, here's one parent who's a whole barrel of laughs. Life in Pink Floyd never looked like a barrel of laughs. In the meantime my boyfriend has to manage my moods, which vary from avoidance, sullen whining and self-doubt - not exactly a barrel of laughs! Synonyms joker, comedian, comic, humorist, wag, wit, funny man, funny woman, prankster, jokester, clown, buffoon, character on the barrel (of payment) without delay. I gotta be paid cash on the barrel Example sentencesExamples Adam knew his father always liked to pay up front for his purchases, always called it ‘cash on the barrel.’ Why not just hand out talking points to these guys instead of cash on the barrel? So Moron gets the bright idea that instead of taking out a loan from Venezuela, we will pay cash on the barrel but ask for a reduction in the price. over a barrel informal In a helpless position; at someone's mercy. 〈非正式〉处于不利（或无助）地位；受制于人 Example sentencesExamples Like many of the video covers they show, they have you over a barrel and the price is slightly higher than it should be. We've got you over a barrel, because you and your taxpayers have no choice but to see this through, so why should we pay? Supermarkets have the farmer over a barrel, he suggested. The radio stations dictate success or failure for most artists, and have the record companies over a barrel. We've got them over a barrel now, they are already trying to settle! The award also upped his asking price, supposes Broadbent, ‘although, if you're intent upon doing good work, producers know they have you over a barrel.’ Bill Greenshields, secretary of the National Union of Teachers in Derbyshire, says the staff feel they are being put over a barrel. Opec, the powerful consortium of the world's oil-producing countries, meets in Vienna today, and they have us over a barrel as the oil price hits $35. ‘I felt I was being held over a barrel - I did not have time to find anywhere else, so it was that or nothing,’ said Wilkins, her rent now £2,003 a month. Because the collective wisdom of industrial relations seems to be, that if you have your opponent over a barrel, you can name your price. with both barrels informal With unrestrained force or emotion. 〈非正式，主美〉全力以赴；全情投入 Example sentencesExamples Anyone who attempted to explore this issue was likely to be shouted down with charges of ‘racist’, and Blainey suffered the treatment with both barrels. And she didn't need you hauling off and hitting her with both barrels like that! By this time both Patsy and Desmond were dead, but the oldest of their grieving children, Cassandra, let fly with both barrels at Rantzen's ‘cruel and vicious account’. Christopher Hitchens, never a shrinking violet, lets his old comrades, the loony left, have it with both barrels in today's Washington Post. He paused for a pull on his Coors, then added, ‘I want you to give us hell tomorrow and give it to us with both barrels.’ Don Henley lets the music industry have it with both barrels in a Washington Post editorial: When I started in the music business, music was important and vital to our culture. Dan McNutt, underwhelmed by the grovelling that has occurred recently regarding certain sports ‘heroes’, lets fly with both barrels again. As the Celtic manager gave it to referee John Rowbotham with both barrels, Young attempted to calm him down. I gave it to them with both barrels after the game, even though I know it could get me into trouble. Excellent ministers, who have helped improve this country greatly over the past seven years, let me have it with both barrels. Origin Middle English: from Old French baril, from medieval Latin barriclus ‘small cask’. noun.1 phr.
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