| 释义 |
noun heɪheɪ mass nounGrass that has been mown and dried for use as fodder. Example sentencesExamples - There are organic sources for any and all nutrients you'll need to grow hay and pasture.
- Most producers had moved cattle to pastures, with hay supplies very short.
- Forage varieties can be drilled in May and just one harvest will provide three to six tons of high protein hay or silage.
- He advised farmers with surplus stock and a fodder shortage to purchase concentrate feed rather than hay.
- We had somebody put our grass into square hay bales two or three years ago.
- Several producers have cut soybeans for hay or silage.
- The fruit is kept in a room for a day after harvest and thereafter, it is wrapped between layers of straw, grass, hay or paper.
- Fall is the perfect time of the year to start hay, especially timothy or other grasses.
- Thousands of acres of corn and hay are planted each year for cattle to eat.
- Some grass is grown on the farm for hay or silage, together with swede, turnip or kale for winter forage.
- About three years ago, his cows began grazing mostly on pasture and were fed grain and hay over winter.
- He is hoping people will donate fodder and hay for a convoy for those struggling to feed their stock.
- The Wilsons feed the hogs corn, barley, oats and hay grown on their farm.
- By the time we headed back to the palace, we smelled of horse manure and hay, with hay and grass sticking out from our hair and clothes.
- He ran out of grass and began feeding cattle hay and other nutrients in August, a month earlier than usual.
- Here we plant a mixture of alfalfa and timothy, or alfalfa and orchard grass, as hay for horses or dairy cows.
- Tractors cannot be used on land to convey fodder to feeding sites and farmers have to carry in hay or silage on their backs.
- You also could mix grain or chopped hay with freshly chopped corn to lower the moisture content.
- When a field gets too weedy, Fred will seed it in grasses and turn it into pasture or hay.
- Legume hay (such as alfalfa) typically has a greater calcium content than grass hay.
Synonyms forage, dried grass, pasturage, herbage, silage, fodder, straw
verb heɪ [no object]hay offAustralian (of grass) dry while standing. the grass had all hayed off and gone to seed Example sentencesExamples - The grass had hayed off on the top, but underneath it was still green, providing the best cattle-fattening feed imaginable.
- The pasture has hayed off due to seasonal weather patterns.
- Since his field had been hayed off, the plow took up his days.
- His cattle won't get fat until the grass has hayed off in late summer.
- The feed hayed off to dry grass and stalks which won't maintain even a dry cow let alone one with a calf at foot.
Phrases Example sentencesExamples - Whenever you wear make-up, you should always remember to wash it all off before hitting the hay.
- We settled down to watch some more mindless pap on the TV until it was time to hit the hay.
- He's making his usual to-do list before hitting the hay.
- We got home safely, sat chatting for a while over steaming mugs of tea and then hit the hay for a couple of hours.
- I plan to go for a few beers down the local pub before hitting the hay.
- Well, it's getting late and I need to hit the hay.
- Our houseguest hit the hay at one and I went up to sleep.
- I'll usually check my email once more before hitting the hay at night.
- My days started and ended early, with the clinic recommending that guests hit the hay by 9pm.
- The weekend was finished off in the best way possible, with Amelia sleeping soundly from 8pm until 1am and me hitting the hay at 9.
make hay (while the sun shines) proverb Make good use of an opportunity while it lasts. they made political hay out of the issue Example sentencesExamples - Developers in Bangalore are making hay, thanks to the sudden spurt in spending power of the average Bangalorean added to the rock bottom rates of home loans.
- With three films already released this year, and another four on the way, he has been making hay while the Californian sun shines.
- This is one of a few occasions that provide a good opportunity for both private and governmental textile houses to make hay.
- Since then Robert has been making hay with the series, but the genre is certainly played out by now.
- She was making hay while the sun shone - making pots of money from endorsing carpets and other unlikely products.
- She has been making hay from embarrassing her parents for 20 years while alternately cashing in on their names.
- Those who opposed the war are now making hay, coming forward with accusations which would have been inconceivable a matter of weeks ago.
- The private sector has been making hay on the railways for far too long.
- Talk about making hay while the sun shines: this is a place that knows how to make the most of an unusually short summer season.
- If our soccer players do not appreciate the privilege of having direct access to Africa's richest soccer league, then they must blame themselves for not making hay while the sun shines.
Synonyms make the most of an opportunity, exploit an opportunity, take advantage of an opportunity, capitalize on an advantage, strike while the iron is hot, seize the day
Origin Old English hēg, hīeg, hīg, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hooi and German Heu, also to hew. An ancient word that goes back to around ad 800 in Old English. The phrase to make hay, ‘to make good use of an opportunity while it lasts’, is a shortening of the proverbial recommendation make hay while the sun shines, which has been in use since the 16th century. Since the late 19th century North American farmers have employed haywire to bind bales of hay and corn. Others found other uses for it, so that haywire came to describe anything patched together or poorly equipped. By the 1920s to go haywire meant ‘to go wrong’, and in the 1930s it was extended to cover people who were mentally disturbed or out of control.
Rhymes affray, agley, aka, allay, Angers, A-OK, appellation contrôlée, array, assay, astray, au fait, auto-da-fé, away, aweigh, aye, bay, belay, betray, bey, Bombay, Bordet, boulevardier, bouquet, brae, bray, café au lait, Carné, cassoulet, Cathay, chassé, chevet, chez, chiné, clay, convey, Cray, crème brûlée, crudités, cuvée, cy-pres, day, decay, deejay, dégagé, distinguée, downplay, dray, Dufay, Dushanbe, eh, embay, engagé, essay, everyday, faraway, fay, fey, flay, fray, Frey, fromage frais, gainsay, Gaye, Genet, giclee, gilet, glissé, gray, grey, halfway, heigh, hey, hooray, Hubei, Hué, hurray, inveigh, jay, jeunesse dorée, José, Kay, Kaye, Klee, Kray, Lae, lay, lei, Littré, Lough Neagh, lwei, Mae, maguey, Malay, Mallarmé, Mandalay, Marseilles, may, midday, midway, mislay, misplay, Monterrey, Na-Dene, nay, né, née, neigh, Ney, noway, obey, O'Dea, okay, olé, outlay, outplay, outstay, outweigh, oyez, part-way, pay, Pei, per se, pince-nez, play, portray, pray, prey, purvey, qua, Quai d'Orsay, Rae, rangé, ray, re, reflet, relevé, roman-à-clef, Santa Fé, say, sei, Shar Pei, shay, slay, sleigh, sley, spae, spay, Spey, splay, spray, stay, straightaway, straightway, strathspey, stray, Sui, survey, sway, Taipei, Tay, they, today, tokay, Torbay, Tournai, trait, tray, trey, two-way, ukiyo-e, underlay, way, waylay, Wei, weigh, wey, Whangarei, whey, yea noun heɪheɪ 1A country dance with interweaving steps similar to a reel. Example sentencesExamples - He danced the Hays round two elbow chairs.
- 1.1 A winding figure in a hay country dance.
Example sentencesExamples - One of the most pleasing movements in country-dancing is what they call ‘the hay’.
Origin Early 16th century: from an obsolete sense 'a kind of dance' of French haie 'hedge', figuratively 'row of people lining the route of a procession'. nounheɪhā Grass that has been mown and dried for use as fodder. Example sentencesExamples - Here we plant a mixture of alfalfa and timothy, or alfalfa and orchard grass, as hay for horses or dairy cows.
- He advised farmers with surplus stock and a fodder shortage to purchase concentrate feed rather than hay.
- Most producers had moved cattle to pastures, with hay supplies very short.
- Tractors cannot be used on land to convey fodder to feeding sites and farmers have to carry in hay or silage on their backs.
- The Wilsons feed the hogs corn, barley, oats and hay grown on their farm.
- You also could mix grain or chopped hay with freshly chopped corn to lower the moisture content.
- Several producers have cut soybeans for hay or silage.
- When a field gets too weedy, Fred will seed it in grasses and turn it into pasture or hay.
- There are organic sources for any and all nutrients you'll need to grow hay and pasture.
- Some grass is grown on the farm for hay or silage, together with swede, turnip or kale for winter forage.
- We had somebody put our grass into square hay bales two or three years ago.
- Legume hay (such as alfalfa) typically has a greater calcium content than grass hay.
- He ran out of grass and began feeding cattle hay and other nutrients in August, a month earlier than usual.
- The fruit is kept in a room for a day after harvest and thereafter, it is wrapped between layers of straw, grass, hay or paper.
- About three years ago, his cows began grazing mostly on pasture and were fed grain and hay over winter.
- Forage varieties can be drilled in May and just one harvest will provide three to six tons of high protein hay or silage.
- He is hoping people will donate fodder and hay for a convoy for those struggling to feed their stock.
- By the time we headed back to the palace, we smelled of horse manure and hay, with hay and grass sticking out from our hair and clothes.
- Fall is the perfect time of the year to start hay, especially timothy or other grasses.
- Thousands of acres of corn and hay are planted each year for cattle to eat.
Synonyms forage, dried grass, pasturage, herbage, silage, fodder, straw
Phrases Example sentencesExamples - Well, it's getting late and I need to hit the hay.
- We settled down to watch some more mindless pap on the TV until it was time to hit the hay.
- Whenever you wear make-up, you should always remember to wash it all off before hitting the hay.
- I plan to go for a few beers down the local pub before hitting the hay.
- My days started and ended early, with the clinic recommending that guests hit the hay by 9pm.
- Our houseguest hit the hay at one and I went up to sleep.
- I'll usually check my email once more before hitting the hay at night.
- We got home safely, sat chatting for a while over steaming mugs of tea and then hit the hay for a couple of hours.
- He's making his usual to-do list before hitting the hay.
- The weekend was finished off in the best way possible, with Amelia sleeping soundly from 8pm until 1am and me hitting the hay at 9.
make hay (while the sun shines) proverb Make good use of an opportunity while it lasts. Example sentencesExamples - With three films already released this year, and another four on the way, he has been making hay while the Californian sun shines.
- Developers in Bangalore are making hay, thanks to the sudden spurt in spending power of the average Bangalorean added to the rock bottom rates of home loans.
- This is one of a few occasions that provide a good opportunity for both private and governmental textile houses to make hay.
- Since then Robert has been making hay with the series, but the genre is certainly played out by now.
- Those who opposed the war are now making hay, coming forward with accusations which would have been inconceivable a matter of weeks ago.
- She was making hay while the sun shone - making pots of money from endorsing carpets and other unlikely products.
- If our soccer players do not appreciate the privilege of having direct access to Africa's richest soccer league, then they must blame themselves for not making hay while the sun shines.
- She has been making hay from embarrassing her parents for 20 years while alternately cashing in on their names.
- The private sector has been making hay on the railways for far too long.
- Talk about making hay while the sun shines: this is a place that knows how to make the most of an unusually short summer season.
Synonyms make the most of an opportunity, exploit an opportunity, take advantage of an opportunity, capitalize on an advantage, strike while the iron is hot, seize the day
Origin Old English hēg, hīeg, hīg, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hooi and German Heu, also to hew. nounheɪhā 1A country dance with interweaving steps similar to a reel. Example sentencesExamples - He danced the Hays round two elbow chairs.
- 1.1 A winding formation danced in a hay or other country dance.
Example sentencesExamples - One of the most pleasing movements in country-dancing is what they call ‘the hay’.
Origin Early 16th century: from an obsolete sense ‘a kind of dance’ of French haie ‘hedge’, figuratively ‘row of people lining the route of a procession’. |