grail
美 [greɪl] 
英 [greɪl]
- n.圣杯（据信为耶稣离世前所用）；渴望但永远得不到的东西
- 网络格瑞；圣杯号；重力回溯及内部结构实验室(Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory)
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英汉双解
1. | [sing] 圣杯（据信为耶稣离世前所用）the cup or bowl believed to have been used by Jesus Christ before he died, that became a holy thing that people wanted to find |
2. | [c] 渴望但永远得不到的东西；努力追求但永远不可能实现的目标（或理想）a thing that you try very hard to find or achieve, but never will |
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例句
In this way, each individual is able to create his and her own grail led only by a sense of self discovery and of personal bliss.
只有这样，每个人才能在一种自我发现和个人天赐的感召下创造出他自己的“圣杯”。
That has made it something of a holy-grail dateline for reporters covering the military.
这使得它对于军事记者来说可以算得上一个神圣的报道地。
The holy grail in web search technology is to be able to ask a simple question, in natural language, and get a simple answer.
网络搜索技术的焦点在于能够以自然的语言提出一个简单的问题，并得到一个简单的答案。
Enabling an application to work offline is often viewed as the holy grail of mobile Web application development.
使应用以脱机方式工作通常被视为移动Web应用开发的圣杯。
It became our habit over the years to look in every jewelry store window as if searching for the Holy Grail.
这些年来，好像寻找圣杯一样，看每一个珠宝商店橱窗成为了我们的习惯。
to see a world in a grail of sand , and a heaven in wild flower. hold infinity in the palm of your hand, etinity is an hour.
从一粒沙子看到一个世界，一朵野花中看到天堂，把握在手中的就是无限，一小时就是永远！
Economically significant reuse has always been a holy grail of software engineering.
显著节约成本的重用一直是软件工程的“圣杯”。
His strategy, he said in an interview by phone on Wednesday, is "finding the holy grail of local. "
在周三的一次电话采访中，他说他的战略是“寻找本地的圣杯”。（圣杯：传说中耶稣最后晚餐所用之杯——译者注）
Robert Langdon : Maybe there is no proof. Maybe the Grail is lost forever. But, sophie, the only thing that matters is what you believe.
罗伯特·兰登：也许没有任何证据，也许永远找不到圣杯，但是重要的是你相信什么。
But he's also the guy who survived an anti-matter explosion at the Vatican and a Paris manhunt and uncovered the truth about the Holy Grail.
但同时，他又是梵蒂冈反物质大爆炸以及巴黎大搜捕中的幸存者，并且揭开了关于圣杯的真相。
It is a measure of the Grail's mercy that this seemed sufficient punishment, for only then could I let it fall.
这也正显示出圣杯的适度仁慈，它似乎觉得惩罚已经足够——因为直到那时我才能放得开它。
Some insist the Holy Grail, even if historical , should be considered separate from the Holy Chalice used by Jesus at the Last Supper.
一些人坚持说，圣杯即使是有关历史的，也应当被认为是与耶稣在最后的晚餐使用的圣餐杯区分开来。
Mr Jeffery says MI6's files are the "holy grail" , hitherto glimpsed only indirectly, when its reports crop up in declassified MI5 files.
杰弗瑞说军情六处的档案简直就是“圣盘”，到目前为止只能间接看看。
The British Heart Foundation described repair as the "holy grail of heart research" , but said any treatment in humans was years away.
英国心脏基金会将心脏修复描述为“心脏研究的圣杯”，但是该基金会也提到，要将此药物用于人体还有好几年的距离。
Distributed, infinitely scalable and highly reliable datastores are the next holly grail of our industry.
分布式、可伸缩及高可靠的数据存储将成为业界的下一个圣杯。
It would be, he said, a "holy grail. "
正如他所说的，这将是一个“圣杯”。
There's also a story in which Joseph carries the Grail to Glastonbury, England, a Roman outpost at the time of Christ's crucifixion.
也有人说约瑟将圣杯带到了耶稣受刑时还只是一个罗马帝国前哨的位于英格兰的格拉斯顿堡。
What would you say the Holy Grail of corporate exposure would be, in regard to China and the United States?
你觉得中国和美国在企业信息曝光的这方面的理想的目标是什么？
After this point, Grail literature divides into two classes.
从这以后，圣杯文学作品分成了两类。
Wherever the Grail lay, Langdon never imagined he would actually be looking for it. The Sangreal documents.
先不管圣杯在哪里，兰登从没想过有朝一日会真地去寻找它。
The greatest adventure of the Round Table was the search for the Holy Grail.
圆桌骑士们最伟大的历险是寻找圣杯。
Even the Grail seemed content to sit, as if waiting for the future I could not see.
甚至连圣杯看起来都很满意地矗立在那里，好像在等待着我无法看到的未来。
We all know by now that there is no Holy Grail, but Forex Morning Trade IS the next best thing.
我们都知道现在有没有圣杯，但外汇的早盘交易是未来最好的事情。
"Holy Grail" is the first dedicated study of lunar gravity exploration projects with a total investment of nearly $ 500 million.
“圣杯”是首个专门研究月球重力的探测项目，总投资近5亿美元。
When the actor finally found the "Holy Grail" in the search for the original starting point, let me deep insights!
当男主角最终发现了“圣杯”原来就在寻找的出发点时，让我感悟很深！
"The holy grail is a woman with an MBA, " says a recruiter for one City of London bank.
伦敦金融城某银行的招聘人员表示：“拥有MBA学位的女性很抢手。”
The British Heart Foundation, which funded the study, said repairing a damaged heart was the "holy grail" of heart research.
支持这一研究的英国心脏基金会说，修复受损的心脏是心脏研究中的“圣杯”。
Thus, the first Grail stories may have been celebrations of a renewal in this traditional sacrament.
因此，最初的圣杯故事可能用来庆祝这个传统圣礼的更新。
So you've got a poet with a remarkable imagination who invents the idea of the Grail.
“于是你就知道是一个有非凡想象力的诗人弄出了圣杯这个东西”。
Perhaps some of my memory went in the making of the Grail, because I had forgotten what my power meant to the land of Lyonnesse .
也许我的一些记忆也被圣杯带走了，因为我忘了我的力量对莱奥尼斯意味着什么。
In Christian mythology, the Holy Grail was the dish, plate, cup or vessel that caught Jesus' blood during his crucifixion .
在基督教神话里面，圣杯是碟子，盘子，杯或者容器，在耶稣受难期间盛着耶稣的血。
Known for putting up a tremendous fight when hooked, these rare marine monsters are the holy grail for sport fishers.
它们因能举起被它们钩住的巨大打击对象而闻名，这种珍稀海洋怪兽是爱好体育运动渔民的圣杯。
Defining neural circuits is still "the holy grail of neuroscience, " says Eve Marder at Brandeis University.
定义神经电路依然是“神经科学的圣杯”，布兰迪斯大学的伊夫·马德尔说。
So sure was Dawkins of its deep concealment that he offered $1, 000 to the first person presenting him with the genes to the Holy Grail.
道金斯深信它早已深埋无踪，因而向第一个能呈现出圣杯基因的人提供1,000美元奖金。
Stability is the holy grail of any production environment.
可靠性是任何生产环境的圣杯。
The set includes a golden fertility idol pen holder, an Ark of the Convenant business card holder and a Holy Grail paperclip holder.
该套桌饰包括一个催子菩萨形状的金色笔筒，一个方舟形状的合同名片夹和一个圣杯形状的回形针收集器。
This or that "holy grail" is seen as the distant, all-but- unobtainable ultimate goal for a person, organization, or field to achieve.
这个或那个的“圣杯”看上去似乎很遥远，对于一个人、一个组织、或者是一个成就领域来说，几乎是一个难以达到的最终目标。
A number of knights undertook the quest for the Grail, in tales that have become annexed to the Arthurian mythos.
许多武士在执行寻找圣杯的任务，这些故事已经被加到了亚瑟王的传说中去。
The dreams I took in a net of light, down through the earth to where the rocks themselves were fire, and there I made the Grail.
我用光编织成的网将梦带到了地下深处。在那里，岩石本身就是燃烧的火焰。那里，我制造了圣杯。
The only reason vaginal orgasms are regarded as the Holy Grail of ecstasy is how infrequently they occur.
阴道高潮显得圣杯般宝贵的唯一原因是，它很少发生。
