bricked

英 [brɪkt]

美 [brɪkt]

v.  砌砖，用砖镶填（堵住）（up），用砖围砌（in）
brick的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 砖；砖料
  Bricksare rectangular blocks of baked clay used for building walls, which are usually red or brown.Brickis the material made up of these blocks.
  1. She built bookshelves out of bricks and planks.
     她用砖和木板制作书架。
  2. ...a tiny garden surrounded by high brick walls.
     四周有高高的砖墙环绕的小花园
• N-SING 患难之交；可靠的朋友
  If you say that someone isa brick, you mean that they have helped you or supported you when you were in a difficult situation.
  1. You were a brick, a real friend in need.
     你很够朋友，是真正的患难之交。
• PHRASE 白费力气；枉费心机
  If youare bangingyourhead against a brick wall, what you are saying or doing is not having any effect although you keep saying or doing it.
  1. I wanted to sort out this problem with him, but it was like banging my head against a brick wall.
     我曾想跟他把这个问题给解决了，但结果徒劳无功。
• PHRASE 碰壁；陷入困境
  If youhit a brick wallorcome up against a brick wall, you are unable to continue or make progress because something stops you.
  1. After that my career just seemed to hit a brick wall...
     在那之后我的事业似乎就陷入了困境。
  2. The discussions in Brussels hit a brick wall.
     在布鲁塞尔进行的商谈进展受阻。
• PHRASE （尤指视为投资的）房产
  You can usebricks and mortarto refer to houses and other buildings, especially when they are considered as an investment.
  1. Paying rent simply helps to line the pockets of landlords. It's far better to put your money into bricks and mortar of your own...
     租房子只会鼓了房东的腰包，自己投资买房要合算得多。
  2. As an investment, bricks and mortar are not what they were.
     作为一种投资，房产不再是从前意义上的房产。
• tocome down onsomebodylike a ton of bricks→ see:ton

双语例句

• The unusual house in Corsica is made out of a large boulder whose overhang has been bricked in.
  科西嘉岛上的怪屋是由一整块巨大的卵石筑成的，其突出部分已经用砖给堵住了。
• All the windows were bricked up.
  所有的窗户都用砖砌住了。
• Once there was a door, but it was bricked in for years.
  那儿曾有一道门，但已用砖堵住好几年了。
• The old well was bricked in ( up) when it ran dry Hullo, old bean. What are you doing here?
  哦，老天啊！你这是干嘛？老井干枯后用砖封死了。
• He murdered his wife, and bricked up her body in the kitchen.
  他杀死了妻子，然后把她的尸体藏在厨房里，用砖堵死。
• In order to stop the fighting, one side of the city was bricked off from the other.
  为了阻止冲突，城市被砖墙隔开，一分为二。
• The windows were all bricked up.
  窗户全用砖堵了起来。
• The lift was long dead, arid the shaft bricked off.
  电梯早已停开，电梯井也用砖墙隔开了。
• All the doors have been bricked up to deter vandals.
  所有的门都用砖堵了起来，防止破坏分子闯入。
• But one thing is certain, the prophesied threat never arrived and the people at the centre of the archipelago had, quite simply, bricked themselves in.
  但有一件事是确定的，那个预言的威胁从未到来，群岛中心的人只不过是用砖头把自己砌在了里面。