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Definition of haul in English: haulverb hɔːlhɔl 1with object and adverbial (of a person) pull or drag with effort or force. (人)拖,拉 he hauled his bike out of the shed 他把自行车拖出了小棚。 no object, with adverbial she hauled on the reins Example sentencesExamples - Jeremy glared at Bridget before being hauled away to the living room.
- By the end of this cycle I wind up with bins the Terminator would have trouble dragging down the driveway, but I dutifully haul them out in front of the wall and up onto the curb.
- When he'd hauled the box to safety, I followed up the ladder.
- While waiting for all this to occur, we'll haul our clothes to the neighbourhood laundrette.
- The friendly owner hauls water up on his back every day from the clear mountain stream.
- Tomorrow I have to help the attorney's assistant haul all the files back in and make sure as many books and tchotchkes as we can remember are back in their proper places.
- The numbers are then passed on to transport officials who haul the offenders in for ‘consultation’.
- Like a cork after its bottle, she follows her raft downstream until her companions haul her back on board.
- If they heard a dog bark, they'd haul it out and shoot it.
- Upstairs in the offices above the injecting room, Nurse Andy hauls a suitcase out of the cupboard, heaves it onto the table, and opens it up.
- Not to be deterred, the kids were hauling their sleds up the 3m high slope by Victoria Road Bridge, and sledding down the wet grass.
- We all hauled the bikes to the top of Mud Hill, mounted up, and raced for the bottom, the first past the tree being the winner.
- I've admired the fallen trees this morning, and the broken branches, and I've hauled many of them off the paths.
- These big, burly men can then haul inconsiderate Singaporeans off the train.
- Jessica hauled Frankie outside and immediately started in on her.
- Then every soldier hauled his own gear inside the crafts.
- They were both quiet as they hauled the luggage out into the spacious living room, and deposited it all next to the front door.
- Her father hauled her back on board and sailed for home.
- The worker hauls the animal out of the water and tosses it with a dull thud into a rotating drum like a table-top spin-dryer to remove the animal's coat.
- The pair will each haul more than 100 kg in food, fuel and equipment from Ammassalik on the east coast to Sondre Strmfjord, 535 km to the west.
Synonyms drag, pull, tug, heave, hump, trail, draw, tow, manhandle informal lug North American informal schlep archaic hale haul, pull, drag, hoist, crane, lift, tug, heave, trail, draw, tow, manhandle archaic hale - 1.1haul oneself Propel or pull oneself with difficulty.
费力前进;艰难地走 he hauled himself along the cliff face 他在峭壁边艰难前进。 Example sentencesExamples - He hauled himself back aboard and pulled the javelin out of the riverbed, allowing the vessel to float free again.
- He hauled himself up through a river of freezing mud, finally pulling his abused body onto level ground.
- Steadily he pulled himself across, by the time he hauled himself up, onto the bank he was exhausted.
- I've found it much more difficult to haul myself out of bed in the morning.
- One man hauls himself along on a three-wheeled skateboard, propelling himself with his one leg as his opposite hand uses a flat, iron contraption as a cane.
- 1.2informal Force (someone) to appear for reprimand or trial.
〈非正式〉强迫(某人)接受申斥;迫使(某人)出庭受审 he is to be hauled before the Press Council 他就要被拉到新闻工作者理事会受申斥了。 Example sentencesExamples - Eleven people were hauled before magistrates earlier this week charged with public nuisance offences.
- Yet some band members were hauled before the courts on firearm offences and making threats to kill.
- Who should foot the legal bill when company directors are hauled before the courts?
- He began his 18 months sentence for dangerous driving after he was eventually hauled before the courts again.
- A top Navy Officer was hauled before a court martial yesterday after a laptop packed with military secrets was nicked from his car.
- Know the state's nursing law and follow regulations before you are hauled before the board on a licensure issue.
- He was hauled before Manchester magistrates who read our story in open court.
- As teachers were hauled before Judge Fisher they denounced the school authorities for tyranny and deception and said they were willing to go to jail to defend their rights.
- Today he was hauled before immigration authorities in Dili.
- He was hauled before a court next morning which he claims was a shambles.
- He was hauled before his commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel James Stevenson, and summarily dismissed.
- She was hauled before the Star Chamber and the houses ordered demolished.
- You'll probably also recall that a few years ago, an American millionaire was hauled before the local courts on charges relating to the possession of cannabis.
- Every time he turns around, the cops tow his car, his girls are hauled before the courts, or he's busted on some phony armed robbery charge.
- The pensioner was hauled before York Crown Court after he struck concert chairman Peter Suter in the face as tempers flared at Burton Lane Working Men's Club in York.
- To publish their comments in full would lead to all three individuals being hauled before the Croke Park authorities.
- In April 1929 ‘she was hauled before the customs office charged with being a prohibited immigrant’.
- He'll get a sympathetic ‘Don't do it again’ if, by the remotest chance, he is hauled before their worships.
- He was hauled before the town jurists, and fined!
- Yet, she was hauled before Congress, charged, tried, and convicted within a couple of years.
2with object (of a vehicle) pull (an attached trailer or carriage) behind it. (机动车)拉(拖车) the engine hauls the overnight sleeper from London Euston 火车头把过夜的卧铺车厢从伦敦尤斯顿站拖走。 Example sentencesExamples - My first streetcar trip had one other close call, a sport-utility vehicle hauling a trailer that made a U-turn right in front of us.
- There are plenty of critics with woeful tales of upturned or lost caravans, and how they were held up for hours by tiny cars hauling huge caravans.
- Ask if they will set your towing vehicle up to properly haul your new trailer and if they are willing to teach you how to drive one if you never have before.
- A truck hauling two trailers - with a total length measuring 22 metres - was travelling from Umtata when the driver is believed to have lost control.
- Police reported that the truck hauling two trailers - with a length measuring 22m - was travelling from Umtata when the driver was believed to have lost control.
- 2.1 Transport in a lorry or cart.
用卡车(或手推车)运 he made a living hauling coal 他以运煤为生。 Example sentencesExamples - In between, we hauled freight, carried troops and VIPs, and served as a hospital ship with wounded and nurses aboard.
- Goran Rakonjac, for instance, uses horse-drawn farm carts on back roads to haul the soft white cheese from his family farm in Serbia to market 15 miles away in Montenegro.
- The whole theme was accented by stuffed toy poodles carried by models on the catwalk, who held them as lovingly as yesterday's trash being hauled to the bin.
- Heavy horse carts with rubber tires haul sacks of corn, piles of fodder, and other freight.
- The call came last summer, and he was using the truck to haul stuff for the yard.
- Young girls of eight or nine worked down the mines hauling coal just so the families could exist.
- He had trained as an apprentice engineer at Dan Mitchells, later working as a lorry driver for Tunnicliffe's at Silsden, hauling timber.
- The asset is the future economic benefit, that is, the present value of the cash flows that will come from using the truck to haul lumber, or coal, or bread.
- They are usually used to haul heavy loads or carry cargoes.
- Amid the truckloads of rubble being hauled away is forensic evidence about how and why the buildings collapsed.
- Hedge got a job hauling coal for Sam Dean, who had a little mine near Sand Coulee.
- As the construction of the huge vessel approached completion, transport firms hauled the mountains of food to the site.
- I haul coal, silica, gravel, grain - anything that will go into a dump.
- This means that the farmer is having to haul his own stock or arrange transport.
- Utility ATVs are commonly used for loading and hauling things, which calls for a larger exterior to carry objects.
- Meanwhile, the smaller compact track loader hauled the spoil to dump trucks and brought in the rock.
- Carnegie needs at least five dump trucks to haul trash to the Imperial landfill.
- If that was the case, then people who don't haul things on a regular basis wouldn't buy pickup trucks, and there is probably no good reason why anyone needs a Jaguar of any type.
- Who was he trying to impress, the Broward County Department of Sanitation workers who haul his trash away?
- One record-breaking day in 1864 saw the company haul three tons of silver bullion from the mines of Virginia City, Nevada alone.
Synonyms transport, convey, cart, carry, ship, ferry, move, shift, take
3Nautical no object, with adverbial of direction (especially of a sailing ship) make an abrupt change of course. (尤指帆船)突然改变航道 my plan was to haul offshore, well clear of the land Example sentencesExamples - The waters of the Nile slipped beneath the hull and the boat hauled for the western shore.
- As the ship hauled out into the stream, her bow was swung by the tide downward, and her helm was put to the starboard.
- The ship hauled away from the dock and proceeded to Mare Island, California, in accordance with the orders of the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Squadron.
noun hɔːlhɔl 1A quantity of something that has been stolen or is possessed illegally. (一批)赃物 they escaped with a haul of antiques 他们带着偷来的一批古董逃跑了。 Example sentencesExamples - This latest haul brings the total amount of drugs seized in the Limerick region over the last two years to €4 million.
- The individual was sentenced to six years in jail in July 2003 after being caught with a haul of heroin.
- Photographs of valuable rings, earrings and pendants - part of a huge haul stolen from her Buckinghamshire home - were issued in the hope of tracking the items down.
- Police have uncovered a double haul of illegal guns and more than £250,000 of stolen property following two dawn raids in the Chelmsford area.
- The Iraqi intelligence haul came on the sixth day of a nationwide sweep to seize weapons and insurgents.
- John Barber, Customs and Excise spokesman, said that the haul was the largest amount of heroin seized from Harwich port this year 75 kilos is a significant seizure.
- Det Con Graham Jones said the haul may have been stolen to order.
- Saturday's haul is also connected with a major operation in Britain last weekend, which netted seven kilos of heroin and led to over 15 arrests.
- I later heard on the radio of a large haul of confiscated illegal nets and spearguns being burnt as a warning to transgressors.
- Gardaí suspect the haul was acquired in Dublin and was being delivered to a major drugs gang based in Southill.
- The haul, stolen from a house in Rodbourne, also included army vehicles.
- The spokesperson said the recording industry called the haul the largest CD manufacturing seizure in the US.
- Armed robbers escaped with a haul of cash after threatening the owner of a Bradford newsagent's at gunpoint.
- Officers were also criticised for not fully recording details of the weight or quantity of drug hauls or why they thought suspects possessed it.
- Thieves stole a huge haul of guitars and other instruments worth up to £6,000 from a Westcliff music store.
- Burglars made off with a haul of antiques worth thousands of pounds in two raids in Broad Town.
- GARDAÍ have seized more than €200,000 worth of illegal drugs in two hauls in counties Clare and Meath.
- Forensic experts were today combing through more than 100 items from a Skipton house where robbers escaped with a haul of thousands of pounds in cash and gems.
- The medals, including a CBE and DSO, were found in Harrow, north London, among a haul of items stolen by burglars.
- A Croatian lorry driver caught with a haul of sub-machineguns in his truckload of frozen pizzas was cleared of all charges yesterday.
Synonyms booty, loot, plunder spoils, stolen goods, gains, ill-gotten gains informal swag, the goods, hot goods, boodle - 1.1 A number of fish caught.
捕鱼量 he landed a record pike haul Example sentencesExamples - It is a top achievement to get fish of this size but even better to see a nice catch of good sized fish, such as a 14 blackfish haul caught on the Ballina North Wall in the recent swell.
- Under EU rules, trawlers which fish for so-called industrial species are permitted to catch up to 5% of white fish as part of their haul.
- Their haul accounts for nearly 28 percent of the country's fish exports, Kee said.
- Prawn vessels continued to catch fairly large hauls of prawns.
- The first buffet area is a fisherman's haul of shrimp, sushi, sashimi and fish-egg rolls prepared fresh on the other side of the counter and laid in individual wicker baskets.
- Fishermen from the coastal villages of southern Hainan Island look forward to the occasional surprise catch in their daily haul that could net them a handsome reward.
- The Harrogate Angling Supplies-backed star won yet again with a fine haul of 72 lb 6oz.
- Here's the rub - hauls of fish have declined sharply since the 1970s but total workforce numbers have not.
- That they have increased their haul is a product of improved fishing methods, not a reflection of an increased number of fish in the sea.
- But Mormon use of advanced methods to net large hauls of fish for pickling and shipment elsewhere had impoverished the Utes and made them resentful and ready for war.
- Reservoir trouters will have no problems at all, but short range stream fishers would do well to spend a few hours on the lawn, perfecting their double haul.
- Anglers on the River Tweed in southeast Scotland landed more than 14,000 salmon, one of the biggest hauls ever recorded in Britain.
- The Moy Fishery, at Ballina, again produced the biggest haul with 120 salmon for the week.
- The people of Manus Island in Papua New Guinea traditionally catch large hauls of tuna in October.
- Long after some fish stocks sank below their maximally productive sizes, fisheries' hauls continued to rise, says Pauly.
- These were huge fishing craft capable of picking up a thousand tonnes of fish in a single haul.
- Sure, if I so choose I could reel in a nice haul of little fish but if I wait things out just that little bit longer, I know a nice big juicy fish is going to come my way.
- The seas around West Kerry have been throwing up some very unusual species of fish in recent days and the latest haul included three white albinos which were hooked by Irish fishermen.
- Then one year the fishermen began to notice a change in their daily haul.
- The Moy enjoyed its best week of the season, so far, with a huge haul of 1,252 salmon taken by anglers over the week.
- 1.2 The number of points, medals, or titles won by a person or team in a sporting event or over a period.
(个人或运动队的)赛季(或赛事)得分总数;赛季(或赛事)所得奖牌总数;赛季(或赛事)所得冠军称号的总数 his seven-goal haul against Liverpool Example sentencesExamples - The medal haul was completed by Naomi Boynton, 11, also in the 200m butterfly.
- Ballesteros was crowned champion after his record haul of 23 birdies to the delight of Europe.
- Thirsk's bowling star, Barry Petty, recorded his 28th haul of five or more wickets in the premier league when he captured 5-73.
- Her gold medal was a sixth for Japan in Athens, a record haul for a single Games for one country in judo.
- Brailsford said ‘two or three medals’ would be a satisfactory haul in Athens.
- England rugby legend Jason Leonard is set to extend his international career for one match only - without adding to his world record haul of 114 caps, writes Scott Amos.
- Prinz's goal haul was also a record for most goals scored by one player in a women's match at the Olympics.
- For the record, among diverse contributions, Blackadder topped Edinburgh's tackle count with a personal haul of 20.
- Eight bowlers had seven wicket returns during the month and there were a total of 23 six-wicket hauls recorded.
- Ferrari could pass McLaren's record haul of 199 points in a season at the next race in three weeks' time in Hungary.
- That's an interesting one: it turns out that two unlucky bowlers have managed an eight-wicket haul in a Test their side lost by an innings.
- It would be easy to be triumphant about Manchester as the medal haul headed towards the 30-point mark last night.
- Castlecomer Basketball Club can reflect with great pride on an excellent season that saw the club take a record haul of nine trophies.
- That haul, which remains a record for both men and women, included a Grand Slam in 1970.
- Lions centre Matt Nanyn was the chief benefactor from the 14-try rout as three tries and nine goals gave him a haul of 30 points to equal the club record for points in a match.
- The club is now looking forward to the forthcoming Wharfedale Championships and is hoping to shatter last year's record trophy haul.
- Walsh, 38, the only fit fast bowler in the West Indian team following an injury to Mervyn Dillon, took his world record haul of Test wickets to 513.
- Tiger Woods, only the second player to win all four majors more than once, paid a glowing tribute to Jack Nicklaus whose record haul of 18 is clearly his sights.
- The now defunct Glasgow Club's record haul of 33 wins keeps them alive in name only in the history books ahead of their former rivals - though very much still in existence!
- If Phelps didn't quite match Mark Spitz's record haul of seven individual golds in 1972, he still ruled the pool.
- 1.3 All the products purchased by someone during a particular episode of shopping.
I'm really pleased with my haul as I think I got some great bargains included in her beauty haul were a lot of facial masks Example sentencesExamples - Who among us hasn't come back from a shopping excursion, looked over the just-purchased haul, and wondered, What was I thinking?
- I did a bit of online shopping and bought some makeup, hair and skincare and I thought I'd show you my haul and give you a bit of a first impression.
- My haul: a long sleeved thermal shirt (for the 4 days a year it gets a little chilly in Miami), 2 T shirts and about 20 pair of socks, $18.
- She emerged with an armload of designer black bags, requiring two shop assistants to carry her haul to her car.
- This, plus a couple dresses, was my haul for the morning.
- Recently I popped by Burlington to see what they had in store for the season and today I wanted to share my haul with all of you!
2A distance to be covered in a journey. 有待走过的路程 the thirty-mile haul to Boston 到塔曼拉塞特的30英里路程。 Example sentencesExamples - It's a long haul from Vegas to Seattle.
- Often the transport cost of English timber equaled the value of the wood itself, and twenty miles was considered the maximum profitable overland haul.
- What we have to do, is improve the railroads, to take the pressure off the air transport system, so short-haul, inter-city hauls, should be done by rail, not by air.
- Afterwards he loses his sight and from that day is plagued with hallucinations seeded with guilt and shame, the unspoken sense that his condition is a judgment, and his career a long, redemptive haul.
- It was a long distance haul, not like a sprint, which is what we will be doing when we compete with our dogs in the Savoie Alps in January.
Phrasal Verbs1Leave; depart. 〈北美,非正式〉离开 Example sentencesExamples - Rather than hurrying to finish my last doodle, I carefully pack it away in my bag and, along with the rest of my gear, haul off to my locker.
Synonyms go away, depart, leave, take off, get out, get out of my sight - 1.1Withdraw a little before doing something.
后缩一下 he hauled off and smacked the kid 他朝后退了退,然后掴了这孩子一下。 Example sentencesExamples - He growled and I didn't hesitate this time to just haul off and smack him.
- Suddenly without warning, he hauls off and smacks her across the face.
(of a seal or similar marine mammal) come out of the water to spend time on land. seals haul out to bask in areas where they can see and smell approaching predators Example sentencesExamples - As the season progressed, seals gradually began to haul out on the ice surface where they could be counted during surveys.
- Ducks frequently hauled out onto rocks to rest and preen, and we read as many tarsal bands as possible during each survey.
- It is low tide, with lots of room for the seals to haul out and snooze at Lynch's Reef.
- They haul out on intertidal rocks and ledes, sandy and pebble beaches, sandbars, and sometimes, ice floes.
- At Cap Blanc, almost all seals haul out in one of two caves with access only from the sea, which makes the collection of samples very difficult.
OriginMid 16th century (originally in the nautical sense 'trim sails for sailing closer to the wind'): variant of hale2. Rhymesall, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, forestall, gall, Galle, Gaul, hall, maul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stall, stonewall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl Definition of haul in US English: haulverbhɔlhôl 1with object and adverbial (of a person) pull or drag with effort or force. (人)拖,拉 he hauled his bike out of the shed 他把自行车拖出了小棚。 no object, with adverbial she hauled on the reins Example sentencesExamples - The worker hauls the animal out of the water and tosses it with a dull thud into a rotating drum like a table-top spin-dryer to remove the animal's coat.
- I've admired the fallen trees this morning, and the broken branches, and I've hauled many of them off the paths.
- While waiting for all this to occur, we'll haul our clothes to the neighbourhood laundrette.
- Not to be deterred, the kids were hauling their sleds up the 3m high slope by Victoria Road Bridge, and sledding down the wet grass.
- We all hauled the bikes to the top of Mud Hill, mounted up, and raced for the bottom, the first past the tree being the winner.
- Jessica hauled Frankie outside and immediately started in on her.
- By the end of this cycle I wind up with bins the Terminator would have trouble dragging down the driveway, but I dutifully haul them out in front of the wall and up onto the curb.
- The friendly owner hauls water up on his back every day from the clear mountain stream.
- These big, burly men can then haul inconsiderate Singaporeans off the train.
- Then every soldier hauled his own gear inside the crafts.
- When he'd hauled the box to safety, I followed up the ladder.
- If they heard a dog bark, they'd haul it out and shoot it.
- The pair will each haul more than 100 kg in food, fuel and equipment from Ammassalik on the east coast to Sondre Strmfjord, 535 km to the west.
- Like a cork after its bottle, she follows her raft downstream until her companions haul her back on board.
- Jeremy glared at Bridget before being hauled away to the living room.
- They were both quiet as they hauled the luggage out into the spacious living room, and deposited it all next to the front door.
- Tomorrow I have to help the attorney's assistant haul all the files back in and make sure as many books and tchotchkes as we can remember are back in their proper places.
- Her father hauled her back on board and sailed for home.
- Upstairs in the offices above the injecting room, Nurse Andy hauls a suitcase out of the cupboard, heaves it onto the table, and opens it up.
- The numbers are then passed on to transport officials who haul the offenders in for ‘consultation’.
Synonyms drag, pull, tug, heave, hump, trail, draw, tow, manhandle pull, drag, hoist, crane, lift, tug, heave, trail, draw, tow, manhandle - 1.1haul oneself Propel or pull oneself with difficulty.
费力前进;艰难地走 he hauled himself along the cliff face 他在峭壁边艰难前进。 Example sentencesExamples - I've found it much more difficult to haul myself out of bed in the morning.
- He hauled himself back aboard and pulled the javelin out of the riverbed, allowing the vessel to float free again.
- Steadily he pulled himself across, by the time he hauled himself up, onto the bank he was exhausted.
- He hauled himself up through a river of freezing mud, finally pulling his abused body onto level ground.
- One man hauls himself along on a three-wheeled skateboard, propelling himself with his one leg as his opposite hand uses a flat, iron contraption as a cane.
- 1.2informal Force (someone) to appear for reprimand or trial.
〈非正式〉强迫(某人)接受申斥;迫使(某人)出庭受审 they will be hauled into court next week Example sentencesExamples - Every time he turns around, the cops tow his car, his girls are hauled before the courts, or he's busted on some phony armed robbery charge.
- Today he was hauled before immigration authorities in Dili.
- You'll probably also recall that a few years ago, an American millionaire was hauled before the local courts on charges relating to the possession of cannabis.
- He began his 18 months sentence for dangerous driving after he was eventually hauled before the courts again.
- Yet, she was hauled before Congress, charged, tried, and convicted within a couple of years.
- He was hauled before a court next morning which he claims was a shambles.
- The pensioner was hauled before York Crown Court after he struck concert chairman Peter Suter in the face as tempers flared at Burton Lane Working Men's Club in York.
- In April 1929 ‘she was hauled before the customs office charged with being a prohibited immigrant’.
- Know the state's nursing law and follow regulations before you are hauled before the board on a licensure issue.
- Who should foot the legal bill when company directors are hauled before the courts?
- To publish their comments in full would lead to all three individuals being hauled before the Croke Park authorities.
- A top Navy Officer was hauled before a court martial yesterday after a laptop packed with military secrets was nicked from his car.
- He was hauled before his commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel James Stevenson, and summarily dismissed.
- She was hauled before the Star Chamber and the houses ordered demolished.
- Yet some band members were hauled before the courts on firearm offences and making threats to kill.
- He was hauled before the town jurists, and fined!
- Eleven people were hauled before magistrates earlier this week charged with public nuisance offences.
- As teachers were hauled before Judge Fisher they denounced the school authorities for tyranny and deception and said they were willing to go to jail to defend their rights.
- He was hauled before Manchester magistrates who read our story in open court.
- He'll get a sympathetic ‘Don't do it again’ if, by the remotest chance, he is hauled before their worships.
2with object (of a vehicle) pull (an attached trailer or load) behind it. (机动车)拉(拖车) the train was hauling a cargo of liquid chemicals Example sentencesExamples - A truck hauling two trailers - with a total length measuring 22 metres - was travelling from Umtata when the driver is believed to have lost control.
- Ask if they will set your towing vehicle up to properly haul your new trailer and if they are willing to teach you how to drive one if you never have before.
- My first streetcar trip had one other close call, a sport-utility vehicle hauling a trailer that made a U-turn right in front of us.
- There are plenty of critics with woeful tales of upturned or lost caravans, and how they were held up for hours by tiny cars hauling huge caravans.
- Police reported that the truck hauling two trailers - with a length measuring 22m - was travelling from Umtata when the driver was believed to have lost control.
- 2.1 Transport in a truck or cart.
用卡车(或手推车)运 Bennie hauls trash in North Philadelphia Example sentencesExamples - He had trained as an apprentice engineer at Dan Mitchells, later working as a lorry driver for Tunnicliffe's at Silsden, hauling timber.
- Hedge got a job hauling coal for Sam Dean, who had a little mine near Sand Coulee.
- They are usually used to haul heavy loads or carry cargoes.
- The call came last summer, and he was using the truck to haul stuff for the yard.
- Meanwhile, the smaller compact track loader hauled the spoil to dump trucks and brought in the rock.
- As the construction of the huge vessel approached completion, transport firms hauled the mountains of food to the site.
- If that was the case, then people who don't haul things on a regular basis wouldn't buy pickup trucks, and there is probably no good reason why anyone needs a Jaguar of any type.
- Utility ATVs are commonly used for loading and hauling things, which calls for a larger exterior to carry objects.
- Goran Rakonjac, for instance, uses horse-drawn farm carts on back roads to haul the soft white cheese from his family farm in Serbia to market 15 miles away in Montenegro.
- One record-breaking day in 1864 saw the company haul three tons of silver bullion from the mines of Virginia City, Nevada alone.
- Who was he trying to impress, the Broward County Department of Sanitation workers who haul his trash away?
- Carnegie needs at least five dump trucks to haul trash to the Imperial landfill.
- Heavy horse carts with rubber tires haul sacks of corn, piles of fodder, and other freight.
- I haul coal, silica, gravel, grain - anything that will go into a dump.
- Young girls of eight or nine worked down the mines hauling coal just so the families could exist.
- The asset is the future economic benefit, that is, the present value of the cash flows that will come from using the truck to haul lumber, or coal, or bread.
- The whole theme was accented by stuffed toy poodles carried by models on the catwalk, who held them as lovingly as yesterday's trash being hauled to the bin.
- Amid the truckloads of rubble being hauled away is forensic evidence about how and why the buildings collapsed.
- This means that the farmer is having to haul his own stock or arrange transport.
- In between, we hauled freight, carried troops and VIPs, and served as a hospital ship with wounded and nurses aboard.
Synonyms transport, convey, cart, carry, ship, ferry, move, shift, take
3Nautical no object, with adverbial of direction (especially of a sailing ship) make an abrupt change of course. (尤指帆船)突然改变航道 Example sentencesExamples - As the ship hauled out into the stream, her bow was swung by the tide downward, and her helm was put to the starboard.
- The waters of the Nile slipped beneath the hull and the boat hauled for the western shore.
- The ship hauled away from the dock and proceeded to Mare Island, California, in accordance with the orders of the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Squadron.
nounhɔlhôl 1A quantity of something that was stolen or is possessed illegally. (一批)赃物 they escaped with a haul of antiques 他们带着偷来的一批古董逃跑了。 Example sentencesExamples - GARDAÍ have seized more than €200,000 worth of illegal drugs in two hauls in counties Clare and Meath.
- The Iraqi intelligence haul came on the sixth day of a nationwide sweep to seize weapons and insurgents.
- Forensic experts were today combing through more than 100 items from a Skipton house where robbers escaped with a haul of thousands of pounds in cash and gems.
- Officers were also criticised for not fully recording details of the weight or quantity of drug hauls or why they thought suspects possessed it.
- Det Con Graham Jones said the haul may have been stolen to order.
- The medals, including a CBE and DSO, were found in Harrow, north London, among a haul of items stolen by burglars.
- This latest haul brings the total amount of drugs seized in the Limerick region over the last two years to €4 million.
- John Barber, Customs and Excise spokesman, said that the haul was the largest amount of heroin seized from Harwich port this year 75 kilos is a significant seizure.
- Gardaí suspect the haul was acquired in Dublin and was being delivered to a major drugs gang based in Southill.
- Armed robbers escaped with a haul of cash after threatening the owner of a Bradford newsagent's at gunpoint.
- A Croatian lorry driver caught with a haul of sub-machineguns in his truckload of frozen pizzas was cleared of all charges yesterday.
- Saturday's haul is also connected with a major operation in Britain last weekend, which netted seven kilos of heroin and led to over 15 arrests.
- Thieves stole a huge haul of guitars and other instruments worth up to £6,000 from a Westcliff music store.
- The haul, stolen from a house in Rodbourne, also included army vehicles.
- The individual was sentenced to six years in jail in July 2003 after being caught with a haul of heroin.
- Police have uncovered a double haul of illegal guns and more than £250,000 of stolen property following two dawn raids in the Chelmsford area.
- Photographs of valuable rings, earrings and pendants - part of a huge haul stolen from her Buckinghamshire home - were issued in the hope of tracking the items down.
- I later heard on the radio of a large haul of confiscated illegal nets and spearguns being burnt as a warning to transgressors.
- Burglars made off with a haul of antiques worth thousands of pounds in two raids in Broad Town.
- The spokesperson said the recording industry called the haul the largest CD manufacturing seizure in the US.
- 1.1 A number of fish caught.
捕鱼量 Example sentencesExamples - Their haul accounts for nearly 28 percent of the country's fish exports, Kee said.
- The seas around West Kerry have been throwing up some very unusual species of fish in recent days and the latest haul included three white albinos which were hooked by Irish fishermen.
- Fishermen from the coastal villages of southern Hainan Island look forward to the occasional surprise catch in their daily haul that could net them a handsome reward.
- That they have increased their haul is a product of improved fishing methods, not a reflection of an increased number of fish in the sea.
- Long after some fish stocks sank below their maximally productive sizes, fisheries' hauls continued to rise, says Pauly.
- Sure, if I so choose I could reel in a nice haul of little fish but if I wait things out just that little bit longer, I know a nice big juicy fish is going to come my way.
- The Moy Fishery, at Ballina, again produced the biggest haul with 120 salmon for the week.
- The people of Manus Island in Papua New Guinea traditionally catch large hauls of tuna in October.
- But Mormon use of advanced methods to net large hauls of fish for pickling and shipment elsewhere had impoverished the Utes and made them resentful and ready for war.
- Then one year the fishermen began to notice a change in their daily haul.
- Here's the rub - hauls of fish have declined sharply since the 1970s but total workforce numbers have not.
- The Moy enjoyed its best week of the season, so far, with a huge haul of 1,252 salmon taken by anglers over the week.
- These were huge fishing craft capable of picking up a thousand tonnes of fish in a single haul.
- Anglers on the River Tweed in southeast Scotland landed more than 14,000 salmon, one of the biggest hauls ever recorded in Britain.
- The Harrogate Angling Supplies-backed star won yet again with a fine haul of 72 lb 6oz.
- It is a top achievement to get fish of this size but even better to see a nice catch of good sized fish, such as a 14 blackfish haul caught on the Ballina North Wall in the recent swell.
- Prawn vessels continued to catch fairly large hauls of prawns.
- The first buffet area is a fisherman's haul of shrimp, sushi, sashimi and fish-egg rolls prepared fresh on the other side of the counter and laid in individual wicker baskets.
- Under EU rules, trawlers which fish for so-called industrial species are permitted to catch up to 5% of white fish as part of their haul.
- Reservoir trouters will have no problems at all, but short range stream fishers would do well to spend a few hours on the lawn, perfecting their double haul.
- 1.2 The number of points, medals, or titles won by a person or team in a sporting event or over a period.
(个人或运动队的)赛季(或赛事)得分总数;赛季(或赛事)所得奖牌总数;赛季(或赛事)所得冠军称号的总数 Example sentencesExamples - England rugby legend Jason Leonard is set to extend his international career for one match only - without adding to his world record haul of 114 caps, writes Scott Amos.
- That's an interesting one: it turns out that two unlucky bowlers have managed an eight-wicket haul in a Test their side lost by an innings.
- The club is now looking forward to the forthcoming Wharfedale Championships and is hoping to shatter last year's record trophy haul.
- Eight bowlers had seven wicket returns during the month and there were a total of 23 six-wicket hauls recorded.
- Tiger Woods, only the second player to win all four majors more than once, paid a glowing tribute to Jack Nicklaus whose record haul of 18 is clearly his sights.
- It would be easy to be triumphant about Manchester as the medal haul headed towards the 30-point mark last night.
- The now defunct Glasgow Club's record haul of 33 wins keeps them alive in name only in the history books ahead of their former rivals - though very much still in existence!
- Thirsk's bowling star, Barry Petty, recorded his 28th haul of five or more wickets in the premier league when he captured 5-73.
- That haul, which remains a record for both men and women, included a Grand Slam in 1970.
- Brailsford said ‘two or three medals’ would be a satisfactory haul in Athens.
- Castlecomer Basketball Club can reflect with great pride on an excellent season that saw the club take a record haul of nine trophies.
- Prinz's goal haul was also a record for most goals scored by one player in a women's match at the Olympics.
- Ballesteros was crowned champion after his record haul of 23 birdies to the delight of Europe.
- Her gold medal was a sixth for Japan in Athens, a record haul for a single Games for one country in judo.
- Ferrari could pass McLaren's record haul of 199 points in a season at the next race in three weeks' time in Hungary.
- Walsh, 38, the only fit fast bowler in the West Indian team following an injury to Mervyn Dillon, took his world record haul of Test wickets to 513.
- For the record, among diverse contributions, Blackadder topped Edinburgh's tackle count with a personal haul of 20.
- Lions centre Matt Nanyn was the chief benefactor from the 14-try rout as three tries and nine goals gave him a haul of 30 points to equal the club record for points in a match.
- If Phelps didn't quite match Mark Spitz's record haul of seven individual golds in 1972, he still ruled the pool.
- The medal haul was completed by Naomi Boynton, 11, also in the 200m butterfly.
- 1.3 All the products purchased by someone during a particular episode of shopping.
I'm really pleased with my haul as I think I got some great bargains included in her beauty haul were a lot of facial masks Example sentencesExamples - This, plus a couple dresses, was my haul for the morning.
- Recently I popped by Burlington to see what they had in store for the season and today I wanted to share my haul with all of you!
- She emerged with an armload of designer black bags, requiring two shop assistants to carry her haul to her car.
- I did a bit of online shopping and bought some makeup, hair and skincare and I thought I'd show you my haul and give you a bit of a first impression.
- My haul: a long sleeved thermal shirt (for the 4 days a year it gets a little chilly in Miami), 2 T shirts and about 20 pair of socks, $18.
- Who among us hasn't come back from a shopping excursion, looked over the just-purchased haul, and wondered, What was I thinking?
2A distance to be traversed. 有待走过的路程 the thirty-mile haul to Tallahassee 到塔曼拉塞特的30英里路程。 See also long haul, short haul Example sentencesExamples - It's a long haul from Vegas to Seattle.
- Often the transport cost of English timber equaled the value of the wood itself, and twenty miles was considered the maximum profitable overland haul.
- It was a long distance haul, not like a sprint, which is what we will be doing when we compete with our dogs in the Savoie Alps in January.
- What we have to do, is improve the railroads, to take the pressure off the air transport system, so short-haul, inter-city hauls, should be done by rail, not by air.
- Afterwards he loses his sight and from that day is plagued with hallucinations seeded with guilt and shame, the unspoken sense that his condition is a judgment, and his career a long, redemptive haul.
Phrasal Verbs1Leave; depart. 〈北美,非正式〉离开 Example sentencesExamples - Rather than hurrying to finish my last doodle, I carefully pack it away in my bag and, along with the rest of my gear, haul off to my locker.
Synonyms go away, depart, leave, take off, get out, get out of my sight - 1.1Withdraw a little in preparation for some action.
后缩一下 he hauled off and smacked the kid 他朝后退了退,然后掴了这孩子一下。 Example sentencesExamples - He growled and I didn't hesitate this time to just haul off and smack him.
- Suddenly without warning, he hauls off and smacks her across the face.
(of a seal or similar marine mammal) come out of the water to spend time on land. seals haul out to bask in areas where they can see and smell approaching predators Example sentencesExamples - Ducks frequently hauled out onto rocks to rest and preen, and we read as many tarsal bands as possible during each survey.
- At Cap Blanc, almost all seals haul out in one of two caves with access only from the sea, which makes the collection of samples very difficult.
- They haul out on intertidal rocks and ledes, sandy and pebble beaches, sandbars, and sometimes, ice floes.
- As the season progressed, seals gradually began to haul out on the ice surface where they could be counted during surveys.
- It is low tide, with lots of room for the seals to haul out and snooze at Lynch's Reef.
OriginMid 16th century (originally in the nautical sense ‘trim sails for sailing closer to the wind’): variant of hale. |