parcel
noun /ˈpɑːsl/
/ˈpɑːrsl/
Idioms - (especially British English) (North American English usually package)something that is wrapped in paper or put into a thick envelope so that it can be sent by mail, carried easily or given as a present
包裹；小包 - There's a parcel and some letters for you.
有你的一个包裹和几封信。 - She was carrying a parcel of books under her arm.
她腋下夹着一包书。 - The prisoners were allowed food parcels.
囚犯可以收食物包裹。
- He came in laden with parcels for the children.
他带着给孩子们的大包小包进来了。 - I sealed up the box with brown parcel tape.
我用棕色胶带封上了那个箱子。 - She went to collect her parcel from the depot.
她去库房领取包裹。 - The courier tried to deliver a parcel yesterday but I'd already left.
快递员昨日想投递一个包裹，但我已经离开了。 - The waiter had our left-over food made up into a parcel to take home.
侍者给我们把剩下的食物打包带回家。 - This morning a parcel arrived containing a signed copy of his new book.
今天上午到了一个包裹，里面有一本他签过名的新书。 - We left little parcels outside each person's door.
我们在每个人的门口放了些小包裹。 - a parcel-delivery business
包裹投递业务
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- large
- little
- small
- …
- post
- send
- deliver
- …
- arrive
- contain something
- delivery
- tape
- bomb
- …
- in a/the parcel
- parcel from
- parcel to
- …
- There's a parcel and some letters for you.
- a piece of land
一块地；一片地 - 50 five-acre parcels have already been sold.
五英亩一块的土地已经售出 50 块。
- 50 five-acre parcels have already been sold.
- (especially British English) a small amount of food that is wrapped in something, usually pastry, before it is cooked
油酥包（通常以油酥皮包裹少许食物烹制） - filo pastry parcels
千层油酥包 - cheese and spinach parcels
奶酪和菠菜包 - Fold up the pastry to form a parcel.
把糕点折起来做成一个包裹。 - Place the fish on top, tucking any tail ends under to make neat parcels.
把鱼放在最上面，再把尾部塞进去，使小食包光滑整洁。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- neat
- baked
- crispy
- …
- be stuffed with something
- filo pastry parcels
词源late Middle English (chiefly in the sense ‘small portion’): from Old French parcelle, from Latin particula ‘small part’.
Idioms
part and parcel of something
- an essential part of something
重要部分；基本部分 - Keeping the accounts is part and parcel of my job.
记账是我的主要工作。
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- Keeping the accounts is part and parcel of my job.