brick

1 It’s yellow brick with a spiral staircase and a two-story foyer and vertical blinds.

2 Every other building is in ruins, spilling rubble and broken bricks onto the streets.

3 Mark presses against Trina and the wall behind her, wishing they could somehow disappear into the brick.

4 An overlay of wood covers the brick wall.

砖墙上覆盖了一层木板.

5 This school, Thomas Jefferson High, was another public school, a sprawling brick compound.

6 Sitting on top of this normal brick building, there was the most amazing glass...thing.

7 Using sun-dried brick as a basic building block, the Mesopotamians devised complex cities centered around the temple.

8 Bending over with great effort, Ignatius stuck a finger into the valve of one of the tires until the hissing stopped and the tire’s bottom pancaked across the brick gutter.

9 Open book to brick barrier in less than a second?

10 Tariq drops a handful of Lego bricks so they clatter on the floor.

11 Explosions were common at the brickworks, for companies would use dynamite to loosen the clay before the great machines scooped it up to make bricks.

12 The 1946 Plymouth was parked in the front yard, its bumper pressed against the porch, its taillights blocking the brick sidewalk.

13 The front of the plant was a brick commercial building of the nineteenth century with a mansard roof that bulged out into several rococo dormer windows, the panes of which were mostly cracked.

14 Ahead loomed the high brick walls of the local brewery.

15 At four o’clock he knocked on the door of the only house back of the ridge with a brick front.

16 I also carried a pouch of the graveyard dirt mixed with powdered brick dust from Doc.

17 Rubbing her hand, her pursuer followed again, keeping her distance now, as they moved deeper into the deserted labyrinth of brick houses.

18 Steel girders replaced wood-framing, exteriors were made of brick or granite, and designs favored straight, simple lines.

19 Then they gathered humans and animals in the courtyard, poured gasoline on the little brick houses that had once been Trueba’s pride and joy, and set fire to them and everything inside them.

20 Dimple felt her guard go up, that unbreachable wall laid with bricks of cynicism and aloofness that kept people at bay.

1 贬责

brickbat

2 好汉

goody bawcock knight-errant a broth of a boy

3 块料

block

4 害怕

windy fear chill scare rattle

5 可靠的人

trouper

6 侮辱

invective despiteous despite injury wound offense insult slap outrage libel indignity dishonor hotfoot brickbat contumely insultation diss flout shame denigrate defame spit on

7 方料

lumber

8 慷慨的人

sport

9 街道

street drive row drag gate stroll vista corso toby

10 砖块

brickbat bat nogging

11 好心人

jewel darling sweetheart sweetie well-wisher

12 茶砖

tile-tea

13 担心

apprehensive lest concern worrying nervousness mind worry stress bother tremble

14 积木

building block block blocks toy bricks building blocks

15 砖

tile mudbrick masonry brickwork bricky

16 好人

scout goodie bawcock a good scout good egg

17 人行道

walk path sidewalk pavement walkway footpath causeway banquette sideway footway trottoir

18 冰激凌

ice-cream

19 砖砌的

brick-built