wall
n. 墙,壁; 障碍
v. 用墙把
A wall is one of the vertical sides of a building or room.
Kathryn leaned against the wall of the church...
凯瑟琳倚靠在教堂的墙上。
The bedroom walls would be painted light blue...
卧室的墙壁会被漆成浅蓝色。
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...
他坐在墙上晒太阳。
The well is surrounded by a wall only 12 inches high.
井台只有12英寸高。
The wall of something that is hollow is its side.
He ran his fingers along the inside walls of the box.
他用手指摸了摸盒子的内壁。
A wall of something is a large amount of it forming a high vertical barrier.
She gazed at the wall of books...
她目不转睛地盯着书墙。
I was just hit by a wall of water.
我刚撞上了一堵水墙。
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...
警方称他们像往常一样碰了壁,没人吭气。
Despite its prevalence, schizophrenia has existed behind a wall of secrecy for years.
尽管精神分裂症患者为数众多,但多年来这种病一直被捂着掩着。
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.
I appealed for help but felt I was always banging my head against a wall...
我寻求帮助,却发现自己处处碰壁。
I wondered if I was banging my head against a brick wall.
我怀疑自己是不是在把鸡蛋往石头上碰,徒劳无益。
If you have your back to the wall, you are in a very difficult situation and can see no way out of it.
Their threat to hire replacement workers has the union with its back to the wall.
他们威胁说要雇用替工,这使工会陷入了困境。
If you say that you are climbing the walls, you are emphasizing that you feel very frustrated, nervous, or anxious.
Sitting at home would only have had him climbing the walls with frustration.
呆在家里只会让他沮丧得抓狂。
If you say that something or someone is driving you up the wall, you are emphasizing that they annoy and irritate you.
The heat is driving me up the wall...
炎热快把我逼疯了。
I sang in the bath and drove my parents up the wall.
我在浴室里唱歌,我父母快受不了了。
If a person or company goes to the wall, they lose all their money and their business fails.
Even quite big companies are going to the wall these days.
现如今甚至有些大公司也濒临破产。
1. an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure;
2. an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes;
3. anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect;
4. a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden);
5. (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure;
6. a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
7. a layer of material that encloses space;
8. a difficult or awkward situation;
1. surround with a wall in order to fortify
between you and me and the wall
见 bedpost
drive someone up the wall
(非正式)使某人非常恼火
go to the wall informal 非正式
(生意)失败
(不计代价)支持
hit the wall
(长跑运动员)突然跑不动了
off the wall N. Amer. informal 北美,非正式
古怪的;不寻常的
(人)生气的
(指控)无根据的
walls have ears
(谚)隔墙有耳
wall-to-wall
(地毯或其他铺地材料)铺满整个地板的
off the wall&I{【俚语】}
极端开放的
无原则的;荒唐可笑的
up the wall&I{【俚语】}
狂怒恼火的:进入极端沮丧、愤怒或悲哀的状态
writing on the wall 或 handwriting on the wall
凶兆:对于未来事件发展的不祥预示
The car ploughed into his garden wall.
那辆汽车撞在他的花园墙上.
There hangs straight on the wall of this grocery a service pledge.
这家副食店在墙上端端正正挂着一张服务公约.
He slapped the paint thickly on the wall.
他把油漆厚厚地涂在墙上.
The boys soon scaled the wall.
男孩很快就爬上了墙头.
Turn the picture round to face the wall.
把画转过去面对墙.