n. 1.砖;砖块。 2.砖形物;砖形面包;茶砖;方料,块料;积木(玩具);一砖的厚度。 3.〔口语〕好心人;好汉。
短语和例子
a fire [stone] brick 耐火砖。 a gold brick 金砖;坚固的东西。 bake [make, burn] bricks 烧砖。 lay bricks 砌砖。 one and a half bricks thick 一砖半厚。 a Bath [Bristol] brick 砖形砂石[磨口]。 as dry as a brick 干得像砖头一样。 a regular brick 好汉,好人。 You've been a perfect brick to me. 你待我太好了。 brick by brick 一点一点。 drop a brick 〔口语〕出丑,出错,失言。 have a brick in one's hat 有醉意。 hit the bricks 〔美俚〕 1. 走上街头。 2. 罢工;巡察。 3. 释放出狱。 like a brick 〔口语〕勇猛地,活泼地。 like a hundred [thousand, a load, tons] of bricks 〔口语〕勇敢地,猛烈地;以压倒优势。 make bricks without straw 徒劳,做吃力不讨好的事情。 vt. 用砖砌;用砖镶填 (up); 用砖围砌 (in); 用砖铺筑,用砖建造。 brick up a disused entrance 用砖堵死不再需要的入口。 adj. 1.用砖砌的。 2.砖似的。
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。