clay
n. 黏土,陶土
Clay is a kind of earth that is soft when it is wet and hard when it is dry. Clay is shaped and baked to make things such as pots and bricks.
...the heavy clay soils of Cambridgeshire...
劍橋郡的重黏土質土壤
As the wheel turned, the potter shaped and squeezed the lump of clay into a graceful shape.
隨著陶輪的轉動,製陶工人緩慢擠壓陶泥塊,塑出優美的造型。
In tennis, matches played on clay are played on courts whose surface is covered with finely crushed stones or brick.
Most tennis is played on hard courts, but a substantial amount is played on clay...
多數網球比賽在硬地球場上舉行,不過也有相當數量的比賽在紅土球場上進行。
He was a clay-court specialist who won Wimbledon five times.
他是紅土場上的專家,曾5次在溫布林登奪冠。
If you say that a person who is respected or admired has feet of clay or has clay feet, you mean that they have serious faults which you or other people did not know about before.
When those idols are found to have feet of clay, the pain of disenchantment can be profound.
當人們發現那些偶像有嚴重的缺陷時,會產生無比痛苦的失落感。
1. a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
2. water soaked soil; soft wet earth
3. the dead body of a human being
earth, clay, dirt, land, dust, soil, mud, ground
這些名詞都有"土地,土,泥"之意。
feet of clay
見 foot
The boy moulded clay into balls.
這男孩把黏土做成球.
What a love of a clay doll!
多麼可愛的泥娃娃!
Clay and wax are plastic substances.
黏土和蠟是可塑性物質.
The clay is very stiff; we must make it thinner with water.
這粘土非常稠, 我們須用水使它變得稀一些.
We model the heads of famous people in clay.
我們用黏土塑造名人頭像.