单词 | brick |
释义 | noun | verb brickbrick1 /brɪk/ ●●● W3 noun 1 [countable, uncountable] a hard block of baked clay used for building walls, houses, etc.: a brick wall Most of the houses were built of brick.2[countable] informal an attempt to throw the ball through the basket in basketball that fails badly3you can’t make bricks without straw used to say you cannot do a job if you do not have the necessary materials [Origin: 1400–1500 French brique, from Middle Dutch bricke] → see also bang your head against/on a (brick) wall at bang1 (5), hit a brick wall at hit1 (29), something is like talking to a brick wall at talk1 (19), hit somebody like a ton of bricks at ton (4) noun | verb brickbrick2 verb brick something off phrasal verb to separate an area from a larger area by building a wall of bricksbrick something up/in phrasal verb to fill or close a space using bricks |
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