| 单词 | built |
| 释义 | built (bɪlt ) 1. A2 Built is the past tense and past participle of build. 2. adjective [adverb ADJECTIVE] If you say that someone is built in a particular way, you are describing the kind of body they have. All the Trollope boys were heavily built and quite tall. ...a strong, powerfully-built man of 60. He was a huge man, built like an oak tree. 3. See also well-built Idioms: Rome was not built in a day said to mean that it takes a long time to do a job or task properly, and you should not rush it or expect to do it quickly I know Rome wasn't built in a day but I don't want to wait 200 years. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers be built on sand to not have a strong or a proper basis, and therefore to be likely to fail or come to an end He moved into the newspaper business in the Seventies. It was an empire built on sand. The newspapers folded, and by 1981 he was bankrupt. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers someone or something is built like a tank said to mean that someone is very big and strong, or that something has been made very well and very solidly, and will last for a long time Nick's built like a tank and lots of people are afraid of him when they first meet him, but he's actually a really friendly, gentle guy. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers |
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