Pile

(noun.) the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave; 'for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction'.

(noun.) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure.

(noun.) a collection of objects laid on top of each other.

(noun.) a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); 'she made a bundle selling real estate'; 'they sank megabucks into their new house'.

(verb.) place or lay as if in a pile; 'The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested'.

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• On another occasion he encountered a more novel peril by falling into the pile of wheat in a grain elevator and being almost smothered. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed you sit among the ruins, and lament the fall. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• As he took each article from the walls, he placed it in a pile in the center of the room. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Mr. Nasmyth not only invented the steam hammer, but the steam pile driver as well. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He had lain in a pile of straw in his sweat-soaked clothes and wound a blanket around him while he dried. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The company has its own logging crews that cut the timber and pile it on flat cars, whence it is transported over a private railroad until it arrives at the company sawmills. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• There, said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the top of the pile. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Miss Kate and Mr. Brooke, Meg, and Ned declined, but Fred, Sallie, Jo, and Laurie piled and drew, and the lot fell to Laurie. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The paper, cut into the desired form by a separate machine, was piled up on one side of the envelope folder. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Here he kept a great mass of wood, high piled, ready to be ignited as a signal should a steamer or a sail top the far horizon. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• And, to speak truly, every mule stumbled over the two, and the whole cavalcade was piled up in a heap. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• They brought the cars around to the front of the villa and we loaded them with the hospital equipment which was piled in the hallway. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• During the Middle Ages he piled on more and more, until at last one of the knights could hardly walk, and it took a strong horse to carry him. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It was piled with household furniture. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• These piles are perhaps three or four feet high, and are so neat and true that they appear to have been the work of a master mason. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Black was the river as a torrent of ink; lights glanced on it from the piles of building round, ships rocked on its bosom. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It is about five hundred years old, I believe, and stands on twelve hundred thousand piles. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Those big piles of sawdust. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Beth was there, laying the snowy piles smoothly on the shelves and exulting over the goodly array. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• That must be the odor of nostalgia, the smell of the smoke from the piles of raked leaves burning in the streets in the fall in Missoula. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The machine did the work of the original man with the sickle or scythe and that of the cradler, and having cut the grain left it in loose piles on the ground. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The persecutors denied that there was any particular gift in Mr. Chadband's piling verbose flights of stairs, one upon another, after this fashion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• It was still piling its frothy hills high in air outside, as we could plainly see with the glasses. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The Northern people were tired of the war, they were tired of piling up a debt which would be a further mortgage upon their homes. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• They were piling up their score all the time and we were at a standstill. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Meg was already covering the buckwheats, and piling the bread into one big plate. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• To-day charcoal is made commercially by piling wood on steel cars and then pushing the cars into strong walled chambers. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• When the atmosphere had cleared sufficiently to see, he went around and pulled every table away from the wall, piling them on top of the stove in the middle of the room. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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