Word · Frequency #12816
hale
猛拉；拖曳
to pull or drag someone or something with force
- 1.
To drag or pull, especially forcibly.
拖拽或拉,尤指用力地。
拖拽或拉,尤指用力地。；猛拉；拖曳
In use
She is ninety-two, but she is still hale enough to walk two kilometers every morning.
The hale old fisherman carried his catch up the rocky path without stopping.
After a month by the sea, the tired patient looked hale again.
sb be hale and hearty
hale 作形容词时意为“健壮的、矍铄的”，常与 hearty 连用，强调老年人身体硬朗。
At eighty, my grandmother is still hale and hearty.
我祖母八十岁了，依然健朗。
hale sb/sth + adv./prep.
hale 作动词时意为“猛拉、拖曳”，比 pull 正式，多用于文学或书面语；过去式和过去分词为 haled。
He haled the heavy crate across the warehouse floor.
他把沉重的木箱拖过仓库地板。
sb be haled into court
这是正式的被动结构，常用于法律或新闻语境，表示被强制带到法庭；主动式为 hale sb into court。
The former director was haled into court to testify.
前主管被带到法庭作证。
Verb forms
base hale · third person hales · -ing haling · past haled · past participle haled
hale 作动词时意为用力拖或拉。
Common mistakes
The old man is still hail and hearty.The old man is still hale and hearty.
hail 意为“冰雹”或“呼喊”，与 hale 同音，但 hale 才是形容词“健壮的”；固定搭配 hale and hearty 不能写成 hail。
The workers haled the heavy crate across the floor.The workers hauled the heavy crate across the floor.
hale 作动词常指强制性拖拽（如 hale sb. into court），在现代英语中不用于拖重物；普通用力拖应用 haul。
She hales from Shanghai.She hails from Shanghai.
表示“来自某地”的固定短语是 hail from，其中 hail 与 hale 读音相同但拼写和意义不同，hale 没有“来自”的意思。
Connections
Collocations
- hale and hearty
- 健壮矍铄的
- Despite being over eighty, he remains hale and hearty.尽管年过八十，他仍然健壮矍铄。
- hale into court
- 把…拖上法庭
- The official was haled into court to answer the charges.这名官员被拖上法庭，以回应指控。
Idioms & figurative uses
- hale and hearty
- 健壮矍铄的，老当益壮的At 90, she is still hale and hearty and walks two miles every day.她90岁了，仍然健壮矍铄，每天走两英里。
Pop culture & quotes
- I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
- 我唯一遗憾的是，我只有一条生命可以献给我的祖国。These words were reportedly spoken by Nathan Hale, an American spy in the Revolutionary War, just before he was hanged by the British in 1776.据说这是美国独立战争中的间谍内森·黑尔于1776年被英军处以绞刑前所说的话。
Synonyms
Learner notes
Memory Tip
hale 与 pale 押韵：pale 苍白，hale 健康强壮。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：legal contexts、literary writing 作为动词，hale 表示猛拉、拖曳，多用于正式或文学语境，例如 hale someone into court（把某人拖上法庭）。日常英语中不常用，通常说 haul。
Pronunciation & Spelling
hale /heɪl/ 与 pale、male、sale、tale、stale、hail 等均押 /eɪl/ 韵，其中 hail 与 hale 同音。注意拼写相似的 hall /hɔːl/、haul /hɔːl/ 元音不同，不能按 -ale 的 /eɪl/ 读。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.