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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。
猛拉；拖曳
haling — present participle of hale
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猛拉；拖曳
to pull or drag someone or something with force
At eighty, my grandmother is still hale and hearty.
我祖母八十岁了，依然健朗。
拖拽或拉,尤指用力地。
To drag or pull, especially forcibly.
hale
Base
原形
hales
3rd person
第三人称单数
haling
-ing
现在分词
haled
Past
过去式
haled
Past participle
过去分词
He hales the heavy net onto the deck.
他把沉重的渔网拖到甲板上。
The crew haled the boat up the beach.
船员们把船拖上了沙滩。
They are haling the cargo across the yard.
他们正把货物拖过院子。
hale 作动词时意为用力拖或拉。
She is ninety-two, but she is still hale enough to walk two kilometers every morning.
她九十二岁了，但仍然健壮得足以每天早晨走两公里。
The hale old fisherman carried his catch up the rocky path without stopping.
那位健壮的老渔夫扛着他的渔获，沿着石头小径一路不停地走了上来。
After a month by the sea, the tired patient looked hale again.
在海边待了一个月后，那位疲惫的病人又显得健壮了。
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 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。
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。
Not this
The old man is still hail and hearty.
Use this
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。
Not this
The workers haled the heavy crate across the floor.
Use this
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。
Not this
She hales from Shanghai.
Use this
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。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
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hale 与 pale 押韵：pale 苍白，hale 健康强壮。
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。
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。
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