Even under a clear blue sky, the village looked forbidding, as all the houses were built of grey mud bricks . 所有的房屋是用灰色泥砖砌成的，即使天气晴朗时，村子看上去还是阴森可怕的。
They lifted earth in baskets , passed bricks from hand to hand and dragged heavy stones with ropes over their shoulders . 他们用筐子往高处运土，用手一块块地传递砖头，肩背绳索拖拽巨石。
The more dave feels he has set his own goals, the more likely it is that he'll go right through a brick wall in order to reach them . 戴夫越是觉得目标是自己订的，他就会越奋勇向前，务求达到目的。
We pulled up at a low brick building around which were scattered some cottages that looked like little farms . 我们在一座矮矮的砖屋前面停下车来。这里四周有一幢幢农舍，看过去好象是一片片的小农场。
I have walked up and down, of an evening, opposite jellyby's house, only to look upon the bricks that once contained you . 有一天晚上，我在杰利比家对过来回地走着，为的只是要看看你住过那所房子的砖墙罢了。
They walked beside a fence massed with honeysuckle and cherokee roses and came to a gate swinging open between two brick pillars . 他们沿着一道蔓满了忍冬和野白玫瑰的篱笆走着，来到一扇敝开的大门前面，两侧是砖砌的门柱。
How do you conceive your own death in all the marble vaults, the brick ridges, and the furnaces that lead to the market place ? 看头上有多少巍巍拱顶，灿灿瓦脊，地上有多少工厂通着市场，此时此地，人对自己的死又是怎么想的呢？
He crawled to another chimney and waited; it was so cold that he had a wild wish to merge into the icy bricks of the chimney and have it all over . 他爬到另一个烟囱边等待着；他浑身冷得厉害，真希望自己能与烟囱的冷冰冰的砖块混为一体，把这桩事全部了结。
The great wall of china is the longest and greatest wall in the world. starting from shanhaiguan pass in the east and ending at jiayuguan pass in the west , it covers a total length of over 13400 li ( 6700 kilometres ) . if the bricks and stones that went into the construction of the great wall were used to pave a road five metres wide and 35 centimetres thick , it would encircle the globe three to four times . 中国的万里长城是世界上最长最伟大的城墙。
