The room Jacques and I occupied, though large, was dwarfed by an immense feather bed. It was a bed to end all beds, almost as big as a tennis court and as thick as a bale of hay. 我和雅克住的房间虽大,但是一张巨大的、铺羽毛褥垫的床却使它显得窄小起来。那床巨大无比,简直和网球场一样大,像用一捆捆干草垫起来似地那般厚实。
bale
[ noun ]
a large bundle bound for storage or transport
<noun.artifact>
a city in northwestern Switzerland
<noun.location> [ verb ]
make into a bale
<verb.contact> bale hay
Bale \Bale\ (b[=a]l), n. [OE. bale, OF. bale, F. balle, LL. bala, fr. OHG. balla, palla, pallo, G. ball, balle, ballen, ball, round pack; cf. D. baal. Cf. {Ball} a round body.] A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw, hay, etc., put up compactly for transportation.
{Bale of dice}, a pair of dice. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Bale \Bale\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Baled} (b[=a]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Baling}.] To make up in a bale. --Goldsmith.
Let now your bliss be turned into bale. --Spenser.
2. Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury. [Now chiefly poetic]
"One of my friends said he knew a kid who said, `I don't touch a bale for less than $7 an hour,"' said John Lincoln of Westfield.
Baler twine, $22.10 per 40-pound bale, up from $21.80 in April and $21.20 a year ago.
Although there have been some shortcut methods in use over the years, the classic method of hay making is to cut, rake, windrow and bale or stack hay crop.
The agency's creative director, Larry Aarons, said Mrs. Helmsley's style was "Lift that bale.
Crews have been trying to bale the weeds already in town, but corps officials said Thursday they're not sure how to battle the brush left along the reservoir.
ELECTION VIRUS could be one of the bugs to hit Pakistan's cotton crop this year. According to the latest assessments by the country's top cotton experts, the crop is likely to exceed 11.5m bales, coming close to the government's 12m bale target.
These prompted institutional investors to bale out, bringing a steep slide in the share price. However, Strauss Turnbull was prominent among a number of brokers and institutions yesterday to recommend the stock.
"This little town of Alden is going to be home to old people," says Irvin Abbas, Mr. Jass's father-in-law, as he takes off his yellow work gloves and rests his foot on a bale of hay.
Each bale, in a blue nylon sack, contained eight packets of marijuana vacuum-sealed in double plastic wrappings.
"We're glad to show our Yankee friends we haven't forgotten them," Jim Graham, North Carolina's commissioner of agriculture, said Wednesday after he threw a bale of hay onto a tractor-trailer.
"One bale is good, two bales is better," Dues said. "We're going day-by-day.