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bail
/ˈbeɪl/
American
- n. 保释金
- v. 保释, 舀水
- Definition
- n. money paid to free a prisoner until trial
- v. to pay to free someone, or to remove water from a boat
- Example
- His family paid the bail so he could leave jail.
- 他的家人交了保释金，他才得以离开监狱。