haystack是什么意思？

haystack

英[ˈheɪstæk] 美[ˈheˌstæk]

• n. 干草堆；

复数：haystacks;

例句

• How can we ever find the quotation if you don’t even know what part of the book it comes from?It’ll be like looking for a needle in a haystack. 你连这句话在书的哪部份都不知道,我们怎么找得到呢?这简直是大海捞针。
• To look for a needle in a haystack. 草垛里找针(大海捞针).
• Looking for them now is like fishing for a needle in a haystack! 这回要在庄稼地里搜捕,那不是海底捞针!
• Some sparks from a passing train set the haystack on fire. 一列过往火车迸发出的一些火花点着了干草堆.
• The escaped prisoners lay doggo in a haystack until the searchers had gone away. 越狱的囚犯们一直躲在干草堆里,直到搜寻者离去.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  （露天）干草堆，干草垛
  A haystack is a large, solid pile of hay, often covered with a straw roof to protect it, which is left in the field until it is needed.
• PHRASE
  落进干草垛里的一根针（比喻如大海捞针般难找的东西）
  If you are trying to find something and say that it is like looking for a needle in a haystack, you mean that you are very unlikely indeed to find it.

英汉词典释义

• n.
  干草堆
  How can we ever find the quotation if you don’t even know what part of the book it comes from?It’ll be like looking for a needle in a haystack. 你连这句话在书的哪部份都不知道,我们怎么找得到呢?这简直是大海捞针。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a stack of hay