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单词 vale
释义

vale1

/veɪl /
noun
A valley (used in place names or as a poetic term): the Vale of Glamorgan...
  • It was completed in 1810 by the engineer John Rennie and passes through a rural landscape, over chalk vales and river valleys, winding its way through villages, market towns and the city of Bath.
  • ‘Out in the country, in the villages of the moors, dales and vales where most of these photographs were taken, little seemed to have changed since before the war,’ he writes.
  • For hundreds of years they have worked the dales, the vales, the moors and rest of Yorkshire's countryside and moulded it into the scenery we admire so much today.

Phrases

vale of tears

Origin

Middle English: from Old French val, from Latin vallis, valles.

Rhymes

vale2

/ˈvɑːleɪ /
archaic
exclamation
Farewell.
noun
A written or spoken farewell.And a warm vale to the Cardinal, who died on Sunday.

Origin

Latin, literally 'be well!, be strong!', imperative of valere.

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