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haystack

/hey-stak/US // ˈheɪˌstæk //UK // (ˈheɪˌstæk) //

干草堆,干草垛,草垛,草堆

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a stack of hay with a conical or ridged top, built up in the mowed field so as to prevent the accumulation of moisture and promote drying.

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Examples

  • Finding an endangered shark nursery in a vast ocean is like finding a needle in a haystack.

  • We really need domain experts in all different aspects of clinical care, and the science behind them, to help us find all the needles in haystacks.

  • The women hid in haystacks, which the soldiers speared with pitchforks and then set on fire.

  • The more people you have working on a problem, the more likely you are to find the needle in the haystack.

  • Plus, we figured there’d probably be a few interesting needles in the haystack.

  • But that trend also makes this GOTV mission largely needle-in-haystack.

  • The judges have seemed serious about finding a legitimate hit act in the audition haystack.

  • Henry laid his brother down and stretched his aching arms, while Jess began to burrow into the haystack.

  • They climbed over two stone walls, got across a brook somehow with the heavy child, and arrived at the haystack.

  • And the children crept quietly to the noisy little brook not far from the haystack.

  • The man and the youth ask to sleep for the night upon a haystack, and stop in friendly talk with Mirèio.

  • To look for him in a big city like this will be like looking for a needle in a haystack.