haystack
英 [ˈheɪstæk]
美 [ˈheɪstæk]
n. 干草堆; 干草垛
复数：haystacks
BNC.21605 / COCA.19464
习惯用语
n.
- a needle in a haystack
- 草垛里的针；几乎不可能找到的东西
a thing that is almost impossible to find - Searching for one man in this city is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
在这个城市里找一个人无异于大海捞针。
牛津词典
noun
- 干草堆；干草垛
a large pile of hay , used as a way of storing it until it is needed
柯林斯词典
- （露天）干草堆，干草垛
Ahaystackis a large, solid pile of hay, often covered with a straw roof to protect it, which is left in the field until it is needed. - 落进干草垛里的一根针（比喻如大海捞针般难找的东西）
If you are trying to find something and say that it is like looking fora needle in a haystack, you mean that you are very unlikely indeed to find it.
英英释义
noun
双语例句
- I can use a rough sketch or import an image to query similar images from a bucket of hundreds of disparate images& almost like finding a needle or two in a haystack of images.
我可以使用一个草图或是导入一个图像来从数百个不相干的图像中查询类似的图像&类似于从图像堆中寻找一两个图像。 - TO find her in such a big city is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
在这样的大城市里寻找她就好象大海捞针。 - Trying to find that file on my computer is like looking for a needle in a haystack!
想在我的电脑里找到那个档案简直是大海捞针！ - Searching for one man in this big city is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
在这座城市里寻找一个人犹如大海捞针。 - Only governments or large organisations would have the resources and manpower to find the needle in a haystack, he said.
他表示，只有政府或大型机构会有资源和人力大海捞针。 - We're looking for a needle in a haystack here.
我们在这儿是在干草堆里找针。 - A crab and seaweed in the sea. To look for a needle in a haystack.
一只螃蟹和一些海草。草垛里找针（大海捞针）。 - We often ignore the real problem and instead search for a needle in a haystack.
我们经常忽略实际问题，而是大海捞针。 - Randomly searching for needles in a haystack is unlikely to deliver great yields.
盲无目的地大海捞针不太可能带来巨额收益。 - He fired a haystack.
他点燃了一干草堆。