caulk

1 Or you can skip the tape and just spread the caulk and go over it in a single pass to smooth it.

2 Arturo tried to smooth caulk into the crevices, but the caulk cracked when it dried.

3 Remove the tape and you’re done, with no need for refinishing and no smearing of caulk over the finished floor.

4 Watching these shows, I see a Florida I am intimately familiar with: ranch houses with crispy yards, bathrooms full of salmon pink tiles with mildew staining the caulk.

5 Besides choosing caulk that performs well over many years, you also want a product that blends in with the rest of your shower.

6 Once I got a shrink-wrapped pile of inedible brownies that seemed to have been made of caulking cement, and yet they filled me with joy.

7 Rabbis shoot pool in dive bars, caulk your tub, hold your gaze and win your heart.

8 Together, they cleaned up the seams and did all the caulking and epoxying.

9 The Energy Department estimates the cost of the caulk will be offset in a year by utility savings.

10 The needlelike tip on the tube package will help you squeeze the material into the gap — once you clean out as much of the old caulk as you can.

11 He goes, “I leave the rest to you,” and he and Mr. Woodwell sit on the dock and watch me fill the seams with tubes of caulking compound.

12 They holler stuff like, “This is the life, watching a boy do a man’s job! Stick to it or the caulking will stick to you!” and so on, but I don’t mind.

13 Once all of the old caulk has been removed, use a damp cotton rag to clean away dust.

14 Shipbuilders caulk wooden boats with oakum and tar.

造船工匠用麻丝和沥青填塞木船缝隙,使之不渗水.

15 Walk around the basement with caulk and cans of spray foam and plug every gap you can find between framing and masonry and around pipes or wires that penetrate the rim joist or exterior walls.

用填缝材料和喷雾泡沫器把你能找到的地下室里框架和砖石墙之间、贯穿环托梁或外墙的管道或电线周围的每条裂缝堵住。

16 So when the caulk stretches to keep up with the wood, the new paint on top still cracks.

17 He'd offered to caulk the windows.

他主动提出来帮助修补窗户漏缝。

18 When the new countertop arrived, the installers used white caulking, which contrasted with the black granite surface and my now-warm-gray walls.

19 He filled the seams between the new planks with wool yarn unraveled from a scarf and then caulked them with Marston’s oil paints.

20 If you’re lucky and there is no extensive damage within the wall, installing new caulking around the outside door trim might be enough to keep water from getting back in.

1 堵塞

foul blocked lock jam stoppage holdup jam-up snarl-up sit stick clog close stop block plug pond gag obstruct throng glut occlude congest estop jam up

2 密封剂

sealant

3 泥

mud

4 填料

dressing filler packing padding stuffing

5 堵

plug

6 填隙

calking calk

7 填塞

tamponade stop pad clog force-feed plug

8 涂抹

application apply plaster obliterate daub

9 用麻絮、麻丝、沥青等黏性物填塞使不漏水

calk

10 捻

twist throw curl twine