walls

英 [wɔːlz]

美 [wɔːlz]

n.  城墙; 围墙; 墙; 壁; 墙壁; 屏障; 隔阂; 壁垒
v.  用墙把…围住
wall的第三人称单数和复数

IELTS

BNC.18881

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 墙;墙壁
  Awallis one of the vertical sides of a building or room.
  1. Kathryn leaned against the wall of the church...
     凯瑟琳倚靠在教堂的墙上。
  2. The bedroom walls would be painted light blue...
     卧室的墙壁会被漆成浅蓝色。
  3. She checked the wall clock.
     她对了对墙上的钟。
• N-COUNT (石或砖砌成的)围墙，隔墙
  Awallis a long narrow vertical structure made of stone or brick that surrounds or divides an area of land.
  1. He sat on the wall in the sun...
     他坐在墙上晒太阳。
  2. The well is surrounded by a wall only 12 inches high.
     井台只有12英寸高。
• N-COUNT (中空物体的)壁，内壁
  Thewallof something that is hollow is its side.
  1. He ran his fingers along the inside walls of the box.
     他用手指摸了摸盒子的内壁。
• N-COUNT 屏障;堆成墙的大量物品
  Awall ofsomething is a large amount of it forming a high vertical barrier.
  1. She gazed at the wall of books...
     她目不转睛地盯着书墙。
  2. I was just hit by a wall of water.
     我刚撞上了一堵水墙。
• N-COUNT 障碍;隔阂;壁垒
  You can describe something as awall ofa particular kind when it acts as a barrier and prevents people from understanding something.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• See also:cavity walldry-stone wallfly-on-the-wallhole-in-the-walloff-the-wallretaining wallsea wallstonewallwall-to-wall
• PHRASE 碰壁;徒劳
  If you say that youare banging your head against a wall, you are emphasizing that you are frustrated because someone is stopping you from making progress in something.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• PHRASE 处于困境（或绝境);走投无路
  If you have yourback to the wall, you are in a very difficult situation and can see no way out of it.
  1. 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。
• PHRASE (感到)十分沮丧（或紧张、焦虑）
  If you say that youare climbing the walls, you are emphasizing that you feel very frustrated, nervous, or anxious.
  1. 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。
• PHRASE 把…逼得发疯；逼得…受不了
  If you say that something or someoneis drivingyouup the wall, you are emphasizing that they annoy and irritate you.
  1. The heat is driving me up the wall...
     炎热快把我逼疯了。
  2. 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。
• PHRASE 破产;(生意)失败
  If a person or companygoes to the wall, they lose all their money and their business fails.
  1. 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。
• fly on the wall→ see:fly

双语例句

• The interior walls were painted green
  内墙漆成了绿色。
• Hundreds of office buildings and homes developed large cracks in walls and ceilings.
  数百栋写字楼和住宅楼的墙壁和天花板上都出现了裂缝。
• My words were lost as the walls above us crashed down, filling the cellar with brick dust
  我们头顶的墙塌了下来，地下室里满是砖灰，我惊得说不出话来。
• They clambered up the stone walls of a steeply terraced olive grove
  他们手脚并用，爬上了一片成陡直梯田状的橄榄林外面的石头围墙。
• I remembered a huddle of stone buildings with blind walls.
  我记得一片没有窗户的石头建筑。
• She gazed round the church at the grey uneven walls and the vivid stained glass windows.
  她四下打量了一番教堂凹凸不平的灰色墙壁和色彩鲜艳的彩色玻璃窗。
• The walls would be lined with books and periodicals.
  这几面墙会摆放书籍和期刊。
• Bookshelves occupied most of the living room walls.
  这些书架占了起居室的大部分墙面。
• The cave walls were beaded with moisture.
  这个洞穴壁上布满了水珠。
• She covered the walls with the signs of the zodiac.
  她在墙上贴满了十二星座的标志。