wall
[wɔ:l]
n.墙壁, 垣, 墙状物
v.围住, 隔开, 演戏般地转动(眼睛)
例句与用法:
I'll go up the wall if it doesn't stop soon.
要是不赶快停下来就要把我气死了。
The mountain rose up in a steep wall of rock.
这座山高而陡,形成一道岩石屏障。
The castle walls are very thick.
城堡的墙很厚。
词形变化:
形容词: wallless | 动词过去式: walled | 动词过去分词: walled | 动词现在分词: walling | 动词第三人称单数: walls |
n.[C]
1. 墙, 壁; 围墙; 城墙
2. 墙状物; 障壁
3. (容器等的)壁, 内壁
The walls of the furnace are under repair.
炉壁正在修理。
vt.
1. 用墙围住(或分隔、防护)[(+in/off)]
The garden is walled.
这个园子有围墙。
2. 用墙堵塞(门、窗等)[(+up)]
The window was walled up years ago.
那扇窗户多年前就用墙堵塞了。
短语词组:
wall off
1. 用墙把……隔开
This room is walled off from the rest of the house.
这个房间与屋里其他房间用墙隔开了。
walls have ears
1. 隔墙有耳
Walls have ears, you know.
要知道, 隔墙有耳。
drive/send up the wall
1. 使……大怒
You're driving him up the wall.
你把他给气坏了。
to the wall
1. 陷于绝境
He complained that the company was being driven to the wall by the workers' demands for higher wages.
他抱怨说工人们提出增加工资的要求把公司逼入了绝境。
wall
名词复数:walls
过去式:walled
过去分词:walled
现在进行时:walling
词形变化:
形容词: wallless | 动词过去式: walled | 动词过去分词: walled | 动词现在分词: walling | 动词第三人称单数: walls |
词义辨析:
同义:
n.墙壁, 隔板, 栅栏, 堤, 隔膜
partition
separator
divider
room divider
screen
division
fence
paling
stone wall
embankment
dike
levee
sea wall
wall
membrane
bulkhead
load-bearing wall
non-load-bearing wall
panel
barrier
parapet
n.防御工事, 堡垒
walls
fortification
protection
enclosure
barricade
bunker
n.障碍(物)
obstruction
barrier
block
impediment
obstacle
stop
stopper
同义参见:
picket
wall1[wɔ:l]n.1.■墙:2.■墙壁,墙表面3.■围墙4.■[常用复数]墙垒;城墙5.■防水墙,堤6.■屏障;分界物7.■(容器的)壁,内壁8.■【体育】(登山时遇到的)陡坡;(冲浪中的)陡浪9.■[the Wall]10.■柏林墙(1961年划分东、西柏林时筑,为东西德分界线,长26英里;1989年被拆除)11.■哭墙,饮泣墙(耶路撒冷城内所罗门神殿西墙的残垣)12.■【足球】人墙13.■【解剖学】壁(如血管壁等)adj.1.■墙的2.■墙上的;墙内的;爬墙长的vt.1.■用墙围住(或分割,防护等):to wall a room with books用图书作墙围住的房间;在房间四壁设置图书2.■堵塞;禁闭:to wall a prisoner up把罪犯关起来back to the wall落入圈套;处于无处可逃的境地bang (或 beat, bash) one's head against a (brick) wall枉费心机,以头碰壁,试图干不可能实现的事bear one's head against a wall碰壁;徒劳无益be climbing the walls[美国俚语]想离开焦急,激动blank (或 blind, dead) wall没有门、窗的墙壁;没有装饰的墙壁bouncing off the walls[美国俚语]大喜若狂的,兴奋的Chinese Wall中国的万里长城不可逾越的障碍climb the wall[俚语](因挫折、紧张、焦急而)发狂(因厌烦而极想)离开drive (或 push, force, put, send) someone to the wall[口语]逼某人至绝境;使某人束手无策;迫使某人屈服排挤出去drive (或 send) someone up the wall使发疯,使发狂;使精神紧张;使烦恼,使愤怒,使人十分恼火,使人受不了give someone the wall把好走的路让给某人go over the wall越狱逃离肉体或精神上的束缚;还俗go to the wall(因弱小或无助)被排挤,被推开一败涂地,失败,垮台;破产;被迫放弃go up the wall[口语](因受挫折或劳累过度、烦恼等而)几乎发狂;(累得、忙得、急得)几乎发疯Great Wall of China中国的万里长城hang by the wall束之高阁,搁置不用have one's back to the wall被逼到没有退路,负隅死战;以寡敌众;陷入绝境have (或 take) the wall (of someone)靠着墙行走不把好路让给某人;占某人上风,对某人占优势jump (或 leap) over the wall脱离教会(或教职);还俗like a strong wall屹然不动off the wall[美国俚语]精神不健全的,发狂的行为古怪的,偏执的;异乎寻常的,不寻常的,不平常的,非凡的非正统的;本能的;即兴的party wall(两个建筑物之间的)共同墙,界墙pin to the wall(决斗时用剑刺穿某人并把他)钉在墙上push to the wall=drive to the wallrun into a brick (或 stone, blank) wall碰壁run one's head against a wall碰壁;试图干不可能的事see through (或 into) a brick (或 stone) wall目光锐利,明察秋毫;有洞察力,很精明send someone up the wall=drive someone up to the wallstone (或 brick) wall[美国英语]石墙,石壁难以逾越的障碍;难以克服的困难;难以改变的观点take the wall of someone不把好路让给某人占某人的上风,对某人占优势The weakest goes to the wall.[谚语]强胜弱败。[莎士比亚语]up against the wall处于非常困难的境地;碰壁【军事】处死up the wall[口语、俚语]恼火的,狂怒的;心烦意乱的,极度焦虑的;灰心丧气的Wailing (或 Western) wall哭墙[wailing wall]安慰物,慰藉物wall in the head头脑中的柏林墙(指残留在前东西德人脑海中的心理障碍)Walls have ears.[谚语]隔墙有耳。wall of partition分界线;鸿沟;隔阂;障碍within four walls在房间里;机密地;私下里within the walls在某种机构和建筑物的围墙内在…的势力范围内【历史】在城墙以内,在城里[废语]在…范围内 wall2[wɔ:l]vt., vi.1.■[主美国英语](戏剧性地)转动(眼睛)
wallwall[wɔ:l]vt., vi.1.■演戏般地转动(眼睛) wallwall[wɔ:l]n.1.■墙; 壁; 垣; 城墙; [常用复]壁垒2.■间隔层; 内壁; 器壁3.■(形状或作用)如土墙的东西; 屏障4.■(路的)靠墙的一边the Great W-万里长城a blank wall无门窗的墙壁The flood came in a wall of water twelve feet high.洪水以十二英尺高的水壁涌来。
词性变化walladj.1.■墙的; 墙上的; 靠墙的; 爬墙的wall cabinets壁橱a wall (telephone) set墙式电话机wall plants爬墙植物wallvt.1.■用墙围住2.■堵塞a walled-in garden有围墙的花园a walled citywall up the window堵塞窗户
继承用法wallboardn.1.■墙扳wallcreepern.1.■【动】旋壁雀wallflowern.1.■【植】桂竹香2.■舞会中没有舞伴的人(尤指女子)wallpapern.1.■糊墙纸
词性变化wallvt., vi.1.■糊墙纸(于)wall-washern.1.■【建】撑墙支架板wallwortn.1.■墙上植物walllessadj.walllikeadj.1.■似墙的
noun
- a continuous vertical brick or stone structure that encloses or divides an area of land
围墙
a garden wall.
花园围墙。
farmland traversed by drystone walls.
有干砌墙横穿的农田。
■a side of a building or room, typically forming part of the building's structure
墙,墙壁
■any high vertical surface or facade, especially one that is imposing in scale
(尤指宏大的)峭立面
the eastern wall of the valley.
峡谷东面的峭壁。
a wall of sound.
音壁。
■a thing perceived as a protective or restrictive barrier
屏障,壁垒
a wall of silence.
无声的墙。
■(Soccer)a line of defenders forming a barrier against a free kick taken near the penalty area
(英足)人墙
■short for climbing wall
climbing wall的简称
■(Mining)the rock enclosing a lode or seam
(矿)围住矿脉(或矿层)的岩石
■(Anatomy & Zoology)the membranous outer layer or lining of an organ or cavity
(剖,动)壁
the wall of the stomach.
胃壁。
■(Biology)
(生)。 见cell wall
■(the Wall). short for Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall的简称 - another term for wall brown
同wall brown
- [with obj.]enclose (an area) within walls, especially to protect it or lend it some privacy
用墙围住(一区域)
housing areas that are walled off from the indigenous population.
有墙与土著居民分隔开的住宅区。
■(wall something up)block or seal a place by building a wall around or across it
砌墙堵住
one doorway has been walled up.
一个门口已经用墙堵住。
■(wall someone/thing in/up)confine or imprison someone or something in a restricted or sealed place
把…关起来;禁闭
the grey tenements walled in the space completely.
那些灰色的房屋把那空地完全围起来了。
between you and me and the wall
- 见 bedpost
- (informal)make someone very irritated or angry
(非正式)使某人非常恼火
informal
非正式
- (of a business) fail; go out of business
(生意)失败 - support someone or something, no matter what the cost to oneself
(不计代价)支持
the tendency for poets to go to the wall for their beliefs.
诗人们为了他们的信仰而不惜一切代价的倾向。
- (of an athlete) experience a sudden loss of energy in a long race
(长跑运动员)突然跑不动了
(N. Amer. informal) (北美,非正式)
- eccentric or unconventional
古怪的;不寻常的 - (of a person) angry
(人)生气的
the president was off the wall about the article.
总统对那篇文章十分气愤。 - (of an accusation) without basis or foundation
(指控)无根据的
- (proverb)be careful what you say as people may be eavesdropping
(谚)隔墙有耳
- (of a carpet or other floor covering) fitted to cover an entire floor
(地毯或其他铺地材料)铺满整个地板的
■(informal)denoting great extent or number
(非正式)广泛的;大量的
wall-to-wall customers.
众多消费者。
wall-less
adjective
语源
- Old English, from Latin vallum 'rampart', from vallus 'stake'
wall
名词 wall:
an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure
an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect
a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)
(anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure
同义词:paries
a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)
a layer of material that encloses space
a difficult or awkward situation
动词 wall:
surround with a wall in order to fortify
wall
■A little piano stood against the wall.
一架小钢琴靠墙放着。
■A concrete wall is built to stop silt from leaking to the conservation land.
一道水泥墙修筑起来,用以防止泥沙流进保留地。
■A stone wall surrounds the palace.
一道石墙围绕着宫殿。
■A high wall fetched in an ancient small town.
一道高高的城墙围绕着一座小小的古城。
■Do not scribble on the wall!
不要在墙上乱涂!
■Don't plaster the paint on(the wall), spread it thinly.
不要把油漆(往墙上)涂得那么厚,要涂得薄一些。
■The Great Wall of China, the longest wall in the world, runs across north China like a huge dragon.
中国的长城,世界上最长的城墙,象一条巨龙,逶迤在中国的北部。
■Share prices fell on Wall Street today.
今日华尔街股价下跌。
■He braced his foot against the wall and jumped.
他一只脚抵著墙跳。
■They wormed their way out through the crack in the wall.
他们好不容易才从墙上的裂缝处爬了出来。
■They beheld the great wall.
他们看到了雄伟的长城。
■He scraped out a hole in the wall to put his money in.
他在墙上挖了个洞把钱放了进去。
■He watched the game from his perch on top of the wall.
他在墙头居高临下看比赛。
■He built another fence round his cave. Now he made holes in the wall and placed his guns in them, pointing outwards.
他在洞穴周围又筑起了一道篱笆。然后在围墙上凿些洞孔,把枪插进去,枪口朝外。
■He felt along the wall in the dark for the door.
他在黑暗中沿墙壁摸索着找门。
■He pasted up a notice on the wall.
他把一张布告贴在墙上。
■He knocked a big hole in the wall.
他把墙撞出了一个大洞。
■He lifted the child and sat (ie seated) her on the wall.
他把小孩举起来,让她坐在墙上。
■He crashed his car (into a wall).
他把汽车撞(到墙上)了。
■He sprayed paint on the wall.
他把漆喷在墙上。
■He knocked on the wall and she knocked back.
他敲了敲墙壁,她在隔壁应声回敲。
■He has hundreds of books but most of them hang by the wall.
他有好几百本书,但大多束之高阁。
■He scratched his name on the wall with a knife.
他用一把小刀把自己的名字刻在墙上。
■He hit the nail into the wall with a hammer.
他用一把锤子把钉子打进墙里去。
■He shored up the wall with a thick balk of wood.
他用一根粗大的木头把墙撑住。
■He bricked up a wall.
他用砖砌起了一堵墙。
■He caught his coat on a nail projecting from the wall.
他的外套被墙上的一颗铁钉钩住了。
■His garden was enclosed with a high wall.
他的花园四周筑有高高的围墙。
■He barked his elbow on the wall.
他碰到墙上,肘部擦破了皮。
■With one bound, he was over the wall.
他纵身一跃就跳过了墙。
■He is hurt by a shelf protruding from the wall.
他被一个从墙上伸出的架子伤着了。
■The blow sent him spinning back against the wall.
他被打得晕头转向,撞在後面的墙上。
■He stood on tiptoe and tried to see over the wall.
他踮起脚尖,试图看到墙那边。
■The flowers made a mass of colour against the stone wall.
以石墙衬托著的花朵五彩缤纷。
■Don't let your coat touch the wall the paint's still wet.
你的大衣别蹭著墙--涂料还没乾呢。
■The high wall was built as a defence against intruders.
修建这堵高墙作为屏障以防外人闯入。
■The brake fail and the car come to a stop against a wall.
刹车装置失灵了,车撞到墙上才停下来。
■The slump on wall street set up a chain reaction in stock market around the world.
华尔街金融滑坡引起世界股票市场的连锁反应。
■The well-trained fireman can get over this tall wall easily.
受过严格训练的消防员可以轻而易举地越过这道高墙。
■The prisoners were lined up against the wall and shot.
囚犯们被靠墙站成一排,然后被枪决。
■IBM dropped yet another bombshell on Wall Street yesterday, warning analysts to expect at least an80% slide in second-quarter earnings.
国际商业机器有限公司昨天又在华尔街宣布了一项骇人听闻的消息,警告分析家说他们可以预期第二季度盈利至少下降百分之八十。
■I wish I could be a fly on the wall when they discuss my future.
在他们讨论我的前途时,我恨不得能偷偷旁观。
■On the wall of his office was a large map.
在他办公室的墙上是一幅大地图。
■A shell splinter embedded itself in the wall above his head.
在他头上方的墙壁上嵌有一块小小的贝壳片。
■Wall Street made Friday's running on the international stock exchange.
在国际股票交易中,华尔街星期五率先确定了走势行情。
■There are many crannies on the wall.
在墙上有许多小裂缝。
■The cracks in the wall show up in the sunlight.
在太阳光照射下,墙上的裂纹就显露出来。
■The discovery of ancient painting on the wall of the church put the little village on the map.
在教堂的墙上发现了古代的壁画,使那个村庄出了名。
■In the old woman's shaking hand she held a lamp: it swung from side to side and cast shadows which moved like giants on the dark grey wall.
在老太婆颤抖的手中拿着一盏油灯,那油灯左右摇晃,在黑灰色墙上投下的阴影如同巨魔似的蠕动着。
■In these hard times, many small firms have gone to the wall because they could not compete with big businesses.
在这艰难的时代,许多小公词被排挤掉,因为它们无法与大企业竞争。
wall off
1. 用墙把……隔开
This room is walled off from the rest of the house.
这个房间与屋里其他房间用墙隔开了。
walls have ears
1. 隔墙有耳
Walls have ears, you know.
要知道, 隔墙有耳。
drive/send up the wall
1. 使……大怒
You're driving him up the wall.
你把他给气坏了。
to the wall
1. 陷于绝境
He complained that the company was being driven to the wall by the workers' demands for higher wages.
他抱怨说工人们提出增加工资的要求把公司逼入了绝境。
习惯用语be climbing the walls1.■想离开2.■[喻]激动, 焦急bouncing off the walls1.■[美俚]兴奋的, 欣喜若狂的Chinese W-1.■中国的万里长城; [喻]不可逾越的障碍drive sb. to the wall1.■逼某人至绝境; 排挤出去force sb. to the wall1.■逼某人至绝境; 排挤出去push sb. to the wall1.■逼某人至绝境; 排挤出去drive sb. up the wall1.■[口]使某人非常恼火, 使某人受不了send sb. up the wall1.■[口]使某人非常恼火, 使某人受不了give sb. the wall1.■把靠墙的好走的路让给某人go over the wall1.■[美俚]越狱; (和尚等)还俗go to the wall1.■被排挤; 被推在一旁; 破产, 垮台go up the wall1.■[口](忙得、急得、累得)几乎发疯hang by the wall1.■被遗忘, 搁置不用like a stone wall1.■屹然不动pin to the wall1.■(用剑刺穿某人的身体并把他)钉在墙上see through a brick wall1.■有锐利的眼光, 有洞察力see through a stone wall1.■有锐利的眼光, 有洞察力see into a brick wall1.■有锐利的眼光, 有洞察力see into a stone wall1.■有锐利的眼光, 有洞察力send to the wall1.■排挤; 迫使走投无路take [have] the wall1.■靠着墙行走; (of sb.)不把好走的路让给别人; [喻]占某人的上风, 抢先The weakest goes to the wall.1.■[谚]强胜弱败。up against the wall1.■处于非常困难的境地, 碰壁within four walls1.■在房屋内, 私下里, 机密地within the walls1.■在...的势力范围内; 在(某建筑物或机构的)围墙内Walls have ears.1.■[谚]隔墙有耳。wall of partition1.■障碍; 隔阂wall up1.■堵起, 堵住; 封闭, 禁闭特殊用法abdominal wall1.■腹壁adiabatic wall1.■绝热墙absorbing wall1.■吸声墙面air wall1.■空气壁air-retaining wall1.■内衬层; 气密层alar wall1.■翼壁anchor wall1.■锚墙anther wall1.■花药壁anticlinal wall1.■垂周壁apron wall1.■前护墙arterial wall1.■动脉壁axial wall1.■纵断面壁back wall1.■前脸墙, 投料端墙back bridge wall1.■火桥, (反射炉的)挡烟桥bailey wall1.■水冷耐火壁basal wall1.■【植】基壁bearing wall1.■承重墙blind [blank] wall1.■无窗墙boulder wall1.■大块石墙buttressed wall1.■扶壁cambered wall1.■弧形(钢锭)模壁canted wall1.■斜交墙casement wall1.■(池窑的)侧墙, 胸墙cavity wall1.■空心墙(内外墙之间有空心层以隔热和防潮)cell wall1.■细胞壁chest wall1.■胸腔壁coal wall1.■长壁工作面cob wall1.■土墙column -and-panel wall1.■镶板式柱墙cylinder wall1.■气缸壁diathermic wall1.■绝热壁; 绝热膜die wall1.■模壁dividing wall1.■隔离壁dry wall1.■干墙, 清水墙end wall1.■端墙, 端板(车辆)epipharyngeal wall1.■内唇壁face wall1.■(镶)面墙flash wall1.■隔墙flat wall1.■平直(钢锭)模壁germ wall1.■胚壁hanging wall1.■【地质】上盘head wall1.■端墙, 山墙;【船】坞首壁heading wall1.■【地质】下盘, 下帮hearth wall1.■炉床内壁; 炉缸内壁hollow masonry wall1.■虚圬墙infolded wall1.■折叠胞壁intestinal wall1.■肠壁jacketed wall1.■套墙; 套壁lying wall1.■下盘, 底盘; 底板machicolated wall1.■堞眼墙magnetic domain wall1.■磁畴壁median wall1.■中央壁membrane wall1.■膜式水冷壁mo(u)ld wall1.■铸型壁mononuclear wall1.■单核限界nucleus wall1.■核壁pack wall1.■矸石墙parapet wall1.■护墙pigeon-holed wall1.■多孔墙piston ring wall1.■活塞环壁(活塞环径向厚度)primary cell wall1.■【植】原生胞壁protective wall1.■防风墙refractory bridge wall1.■(加热炉)火墙reinforced concrete wall1.■钢筋混凝土墙relieving wall1.■辅助墙retainer wall1.■护墙retention wall1.■防水隔墙revetment wall1.■挡土墙; 护墙, 护坡墙rippled wall1.■波纹状(钢锭)模壁shadow wall1.■(池窑)挡火墙, 花格墙shaft wall1.■井壁shelf retaining wall1.■搁板式挡土墙skew wall1.■(为避免连续反射而设计的播音室)斜壁slot wall1.■槽壁solid wall1.■单层壁sound insulation wall1.■隔音壁spill wall1.■防火堤tank wall1.■池(窑)壁tissue-equivalent wall1.■(电离室的)组织等效壁tube wall1.■管壁underground impermeable wall1.■地下隔水墙valve bulb wall1.■电子管壁vein wall1.■脉壁; 矿脉两侧粘(土)皮water cooled furnace wall1.■水冷炉壁wicket wall1.■坩埚炉的前墙, 炉门墙