| 单词 | wall |
| 释义 | wall (wɔːl ) Word forms: walls , walling, walled 1. countable noun A1 A wall is one of the vertical sides of a building or room. Kathryn leaned against the wall of the church. [+ of] The bedroom walls would be painted light blue. She checked the wall clock. -walled combining form ...a glass-walled elevator. Our bedroom was white-walled with yellow silk curtains. 2. countable noun A1 A wall is a long narrow vertical structure made of stone or brick that surrounds or divides an area of land. He sat on the wall in the sun. The well is surrounded by a wall only 12 inches high. 3. countable noun The wall of something that is hollow is its side. He ran his fingers along the inside walls of the box. [+ of] 4. countable noun A wall of something is a large amount of it forming a high vertical barrier. She gazed at the wall of books. [+ of] I was just hit by a wall of water. [+ of] 5. countable noun You can describe something as a wall of a particular kind when it acts as a barrier and prevents people from understanding something. The police say they met the usual wall of silence. [+ of] Synonyms: barrier, obstacle, barricade, obstruction 6. countable noun [usually singular] In football, a wall is a line of players who stand in front of the goal when a free kick is taken in order to make scoring more difficult. He clipped the ball over the defensive wall for his fifth goal of the season. 7. See also cavity wall, dry-stone wall, fly-on-the-wall, hole-in-the-wall, off-the-wall, retaining wall, sea wall, stonewall, wall-to-wall 8. to bang your head against a brick wall phrase [usually cont] If you say that you are banging your head against a wall, you are emphasizing that you are frustrated because someone is stopping you from making progress in something. [informal, emphasis] I appealed for help but felt I was always banging my head against a wall. I wondered if I was banging my head against a brick wall. 9. to have your back to the wall phrase If you have your back to the wall, you are in a very difficult situation and can see no way out of it. [informal] Their threat to hire replacement workers has the union with its back to the wall. 10. climb the wall phrase [VERB inflects, usually cont] If you say that you are climbing the walls, you are emphasizing that you feel very frustrated, nervous, or anxious. [emphasis] Sitting at home would only have had him climbing the walls with frustration. 11. drive someone up the wall phrase If you say that something or someone is driving you up the wall, you are emphasizing that they annoy and irritate you. [informal, emphasis] The heat is driving me up the wall. I sang in the bath and drove my parents up the wall. 12. go to the wall phrase If a person or company goes to the wall, they lose all their money and their business fails. [informal] Even quite big companies are going to the wall these days. Synonyms: fail, close down, go under, go out of business 13. a fly on the wall phrase If you say that you would like to be a fly on the wall in a situation that does not involve you, you mean that you would like to see or hear what happens in that situation. What I'd give to be a fly on the wall when Davis finds out what's happened to his precious cargo. 14. the writing is on the wall phrase If you say that the writing is on the wall, you mean that there are clear signs that a situation is going to become very difficult or unpleasant. After two defeats, the writing is on the wall for the manager. Phrasal verbs: wall in phrasal verb [usually passive] If someone or something is walled in, they are surrounded or enclosed by a wall or barrier. He is walled in by a mountain of papers in his cluttered Broadway office. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE] wall off phrasal verb If part of a place is walled off, it is separated from the rest of the place by a wall. The side alley was walled off from the back garden. [be V-ed P from n] ...a ring of cliffs that walled off the surrounding wilderness. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] wall up phrasal verb If someone walls up a room, or if someone is walled up in it, walls are built blocking every door so that nobody can get in or out. They had walled up her room because of the fear that things might be infected. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] Idioms: be banging your head against a brick wall [mainly British] or be banging your head against a wall to feel frustrated because someone is stopping you from making progress in what you are trying to do It is a waste of valuable energy banging your head against a brick wall, wishing things were different. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers someone would love to be a fly on the wall said to mean that someone would like to be present when a particular thing happens, and hear what is said or see what happens, although this is actually impossible because it will take place in private I'd love to be a fly on the wall at their team meetings. I'd love to work as the personal photographer of a rock star for a year, documenting their life on the road from a fly-on-the-wall perspective. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers come up against a brick wall to arrive at a situation in which something is stopping you from doing what you want and preventing you from making any progress I was tired, I had been working real hard for a long time and I felt that I'd come up against a brick wall. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers have your back to the wall to have very serious problems or be in a very difficult situation, which will be hard to deal with The President had his back to the wall over healthcare reform and the floundering economy. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall [US] extremely difficult or impossible. Jell-O is a trademark. Right now, it's just about like trying to nail five pounds of Jell-O to the wall. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers drive someone up the wall to annoy someone a lot He's so uncooperative - he's beginning to drive me up the wall. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers go to the wall [British] if a person or company goes to the wall, they lose all their money and their business fails Thousands of people lost their homes and 113 businesses went to the wall. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers hit the wall to reach a point where you cannot go any further or achieve any more To ensure their businesses do not hit the wall, operators must ensure their financial management is strong and streamlined. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers nail someone to the wall to make someone suffer, because you are very angry with them If he could not pay off his debt, they would nail him to the wall. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers off the wall unusual, unconventional, or eccentric The new channel is so off the wall and unlike anything we see at the moment that you really have to watch it to appreciate how it will be. At other times the band plays a kind of off-the-wall lounge music, a kind of soundtrack to a hip science fiction movie. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers someone will go to the wall for someone or something [British] said to mean that someone is prepared to suffer on behalf of a person or a principle that they support strongly Above all, he prizes loyalty. He'll go to the wall for someone or something he believes in. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers the writing is on the wall [mainly British] or the handwriting is on the wall said to mean that you have noticed things which strongly suggest that a situation is going to become difficult or unpleasant The writing is clearly on the wall. If we do nothing about it, we shall only have ourselves to blame. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: boundary wall The upper garden between the embankment and the boundary wall is a long narrow strip of ground which proved easier to deal with. The Education of a Gardener (1994) You can just see the sea through the trees and over the top of the boundary wall. Times, Sunday Times (2009) The whole structure glows and flickers inside its high boundary walls. Times, Sunday Times (2007) He moved muscles from her leg and chest wall to her arm and transferred a median nerve to improve arm movement. Times, Sunday Times (2017) There are three knife wounds in the left anterior chest wall. AMERICAN GODS (2004) Angiosarcoma of chest wall invading into the skin has never been reported in dermatological literature. 2017, 'Primary angiosarcoma of chest wall inside out: A rare presentation', Nasza Dermatologia Online Delivering radiotherapy to the postmastectomy chest wall can be achieved using matched electron fields. 2016, 'Evaluation of various boluses in dose distribution for electron therapy of the chest wall with an inward defect', Journal of Medical Physics Postmastectomy reconstruction in patients with significant macromastia and/or large chest wall dimensions can be challenging. 2019, 'Unilateral Reconstruction of the Large Breast: Combining Prosthetic and Autologous Methods for Improved Symmetry', Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open As I follow down the track, I scan the compound walls on either side. Times, Sunday Times (2008) They blasted through the compound wall and rushed in. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Five men stood in a group against the compound wall. The Sun (2008) Most of the original external walls remain, and the main room of the house is still there, but without its ceiling. Times, Sunday Times (2006) For small gardens, the perimeter walls or fences will be your external walls. Times, Sunday Times (2013) We are looking at ways to save heat by lining some external walls. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Or a revival of the wire-mesh fronted meat safe kept outside on a north facing wall, perfect for storing vegetables, ham and cheese? Times, Sunday Times (2010) Your hips should face the wall at all times and your feet should remain hip distance apart. Shape Your Body, Shape Your Life (1987) On the facing wall, three upright, monochrome paintings of branches and leaves echo the mirrors. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Joey pushed her away with one leg and rolled to face the wall, mumbling some syllables that sounded like gold and myrrh. FAMILY BLESSINGS (2002) I can't remember who we have to blame for the feature wall. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Perfect for a feature wall. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The sleek bathroom has a power shower and mosaic feature wall. Times, Sunday Times (2015) On a part of the high wall hidden by trees, they formed a human chain and climbed up. Times, Sunday Times After a second meeting, he went to her flat and watched in amazement as she dismantled the false wall hiding the painting. Times, Sunday Times Follow the dust lanes that meander through the palmery and in a moment you are lost among the orchards and the adobe walls hiding unseen houses. Times, Sunday Times The bicycle powers a pump, which drives an irrigation system that waters the fruit and vegetable garden hidden behind a wall. Times, Sunday Times Unable to play sport, he 'hid behind the walls of imagination'. Times, Sunday Times I glanced to my right, and the stained-glass windows on the opposite wall caught my eye. Christianity Today (2000) Each light pulse reaches the opposite walls of the carriage at the same time. Times, Sunday Times (2012) They were on opposite walls facing each other. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Bees buzzed, tasting each blossom on their way to the row of hives along the outer wall. THE RUNAWAY PRINCESS (1999) There is an outer wall which guards three sides of the oval then links with the inner structure. A Guide to Megalithic Ireland (1992) The outer walls of the temple survived all these transformations. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Scaling the 30ft-high prison wall he jumped on to the roof of a specially adapted pantechnicon drawn up outside. Times, Sunday Times Sometimes, when they talk about press criticism, the boundary feels like a prison wall. Times,Sunday Times The other end of the escape tunnel came up just beyond the prison wall, surfacing near a guard tower. Times, Sunday Times He would never see the outside of a prison wall. Times, Sunday Times The pair also used diamond-tipped gear to cut bars before shimmying down a 25ft prison wall on tied bedsheets. The Sun Only three sides to the court were built, with the fourth side being a screen wall. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The towers are designed with a load-bearing exterior concrete screen wall. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The memorial has a screen wall in three parts on which are carved the names of the missing listed by regiment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The work included demolition of much of the west wing, building a screen wall to fill the gap, and removing parts of the south wing. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Only the left and right ends of the west wing are still present, and they are joined by a screen wall. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The first generation of hangars had doors opening from the side wall towards the flying field. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The forward part of the fuselage had hit the side wall of the farmhouse and demolished the whole building. Bomber I went around the side of the house, dandelions dotting the grass, lilacs growing against the side wall. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS A chimney with a triangular back set into a three-quarter height wall divides the sitting room and the study. Times, Sunday Times A curving wall divides the action; things happen behind it, or half visibly. Times, Sunday Times A center stage wall divides the two rooms, with a door leading from one room to the other. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A thick wall divides the courtyard into two zones to the south. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One additional wall divides the site into an eastern and western half. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The company was mainly known, for its (translations) of (school) atlasen and wall map series. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The wall map measured 43 x 48 inches, was printed in four sections, and hand-applied watercolor gave the map its color. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I collect paintings and wall maps. Times, Sunday Times Most atlas maps, wall maps, and road maps fall into this category. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This publishing firm specialized in wall maps and modern geographic educational tools. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 墙壁, 墙 Japanese: 壁, 壁 |
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