wall
n. 牆,壁; 障礙
v. 用牆把
A wall is one of the vertical sides of a building or room.
Kathryn leaned against the wall of the church...
凱瑟琳倚靠在教堂的牆上。
The bedroom walls would be painted light blue...
臥室的牆壁會被漆成淺藍色。
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...
他坐在牆上曬太陽。
The well is surrounded by a wall only 12 inches high.
井臺只有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內壁。
A wall of something is a large amount of it forming a high vertical barrier.
She gazed at the wall of books...
她目不轉睛地盯著書牆。
I was just hit by a wall of water.
我剛撞上了一堵水牆。
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...
警方稱他們像往常一樣碰了壁,沒人吭氣。
Despite its prevalence, schizophrenia has existed behind a wall of secrecy for years.
儘管精神分裂症患者為數眾多,但多年來這種病一直被捂著掩著。
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...
我尋求幫助,卻發現自己處處碰壁。
I wondered if I was banging my head against a brick wall.
我懷疑自己是不是在把雞蛋往石頭上碰,徒勞無益。
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.
他們威脅說要僱用替工,這使工會陷入了困境。
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.
呆在家裡只會讓他沮喪得抓狂。
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...
炎熱快把我逼瘋了。
I sang in the bath and drove my parents up the wall.
我在浴室裡唱歌,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.
現如今甚至有些大公司也瀕臨破產。
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
見 bedpost
drive someone up the wall
(非正式)使某人非常惱火
go to the wall informal 非正式
(生意)失敗
(不計代價)支援
hit the wall
(長跑運動員)突然跑不動了
off the wall N. Amer. informal 北美,非正式
古怪的;不尋常的
(人)生氣的
(指控)無根據的
walls have ears
(諺)隔牆有耳
wall-to-wall
(地毯或其他鋪地材料)鋪滿整個地板的
off the wall&I{【俚語】}
極端開放的
無原則的;荒唐可笑的
up the wall&I{【俚語】}
狂怒惱火的:進入極端沮喪、憤怒或悲哀的狀態
writing on the wall 或 handwriting on the wall
凶兆:對於未來事件發展的不祥預示
The car ploughed into his garden wall.
那輛汽車撞在他的花園牆上.
There hangs straight on the wall of this grocery a service pledge.
這家副食店在牆上端端正正掛著一張服務公約.
He slapped the paint thickly on the wall.
他把油漆厚厚地塗在牆上.
The boys soon scaled the wall.
男孩很快就爬上了牆頭.
Turn the picture round to face the wall.
把畫轉過去面對牆.