| 词汇 | brick |
| 释义 | brick noun uk /brɪk/ us /brɪk/ bricknoun (BUILDING BLOCK)B2[ C or U ] a rectangular block of hard material used for building walls and houses: 砖 The chimney was made of bricks.烟囱是用砖砌的。 The stark structure is built from concrete, brick, and glass. a brick wall/building/fireplace a row of Victorian brick houses See also airbrickUK brick red red-brick Michael Wildsmith/The Image Bank/GettyImages The house has a small backyard, surrounded by a high brick wall.这座房子有个小小的后院，用高高的砖墙围着。 The boundary of the car park is delineated by a low brick wall.一堵矮墙标出了停车场的边界。 The plaster on the walls has been removed to expose the original brick underneath. We saw rioters pelting police with bricks and bottles.我们看见暴乱分子向警察投掷砖头和瓶子。 A group of tiny brick houses is tucked away behind the factory.工厂后面隐藏着一片小砖房。 Building materials acoustic tile adobe agglomerate airbrick asphalt drywall fibro fixing flagged flagstone particle board paving prestressed putty razor wire two-by-four unreinforced wattle wattle and daub weatherboarding bricknoun (ELECTRONIC DEVICE)[ C ]informal an electronic device, such as a smartphone, that cannot be used at all: 砖头（指无法使用的电子设备，如智能手机） Without a fast connection, your tablet turns into a brick. 没有快速的连接，你的平板电脑就会变成一块砖头。 [ C ]informal an early mobile phone that was thick and heavy compared to newer phones: an ancient brick of a mobile phone Instead of a nearly 2-pound brick, today's cell phone weighs as little as 3 ounces. Computer hardware 3-D printer active matrix agnostic alt- associative memory backlight Bluetooth chip console flat screen microcomputer multitasker netbook non-mobile number pad optical character reader plug and play trackball underscore VDT You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Communications - telephone equipment bricknoun (GOOD PERSON)[ Cusually singular ]old-fashioned or humorous a very helpful and kind person who can be trusted: 好心人;可靠的人 Thanks for bringing all that food along to the party, Tony. You're a brick!托尼，谢谢你带那些食物来参加聚会，你真是个好心人！ People having good qualities advertisement altruist angel beatify bunch charmer gem jewel mensch not be as black as you are paintedidiom paragon poppet poster child saint salt salt of the earthidiom softie sweetheart sweetie treasure bricknoun (BAD THROW)informal especially in the game of basketball, an attempt to score points that misses the target by a long way: That guy throws up nothing but bricks. Basketball, netball & volleyball airball alley-oop b-ball backcourt backfield dime dunk foul goaltending granny shot half-court half-court press hand check jumper rebound rebounder rebounding reverse dribble reverse pivot turnover Idiomsbricks and clicks bricks and mortar be/come up against a brick wall you can't make bricks without straw brick verb uk /brɪk/ us /brɪk/ [ I or T ]informal to cause a problem in an electronic device so that it cannot be used at all; to develop a problem like this: The update wiped out users' applications, and "bricked" some phones. I saw a warning message, then the phone bricked. In bad condition battered battle-scarred be on the skidsidiom beat someone up blasted hors de combat impaired in decay in good, bad, etc. repairidiom in piecesidiom run someone/something down sad scarred scuffed shabbily the worse for wearidiom well worn worm-eaten worn out worse You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Computer hardware Idiombe bricking it Phrasal verbbrick something up brick | American Dictionarybrick noun[ C ] us/brɪk/ a rectangular block of hard material used for building walls and houses Examples of brickbrick If h consists of bricks, the same will be true of the dual grid and the construction is straightforward. The bricklayers continue their work and wall in the fiuba, which is secured with the new layers of bricks. The brick's bonding and the location of the movement joints indicate its function as a layer rather than a load-bearing device [10]. The choice of building materials-concrete or the less expensive bricks or breeze blocks-is in itself a matter of prestige. There are indeed a thousand (and more) evidential bricks to be assembled, thus making mentoring an ideal test bed of the potential of evidence-based policy. We all - including those making the bricks - have a stake in the outcome. If the bricks were worthless, but dropped to protect (somehow) holdings of nonessential wealth, the deposits would have moral difficulties and require similar compensation. We know that we cannot do it unless we have both bricks and dynamite. In 1388, the rammed earth wall was overlaid with bricks. They work in mixed gangs under a male supervisor who is often an outsider, as is the mason for whom they carry bricks. To avoid cutting bricks there are enormous joints. Facts are the bricks with which newspapers are built, cliches the cement that binds them together. The minimum compensation allowed by law for ruined bricks was insufficient to cover actual damage caused by new machinery. Finally, pressing machines were invented to provide a substitute for hand-dressed facing bricks. Dry-pressed bricks were as smooth and regular as hand-dressed or re-pressed products, but they did not need a separate period of drying. See all examples of brick These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withbrickbrickThese are words often used in combination with brick. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. adobe brick Its houses were one-storey high with walls and enclosures built of adobebrick. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. brick building The cabin later was replaced by a brickbuilding for the ticket office, waiting room and toilet. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. brick chimney It also had its own brickchimney between this room and the entrance hall. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with brick |
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