wall是什么意思_wall怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure;"the south wall had a small window"
"the walls were covered with pictures"

anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect;"a wall of water"
"a wall of smoke"
"a wall of prejudice"
"negotiations ran into a brick wall"

(anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure;"stomach walls"

a difficult or awkward situation;"his back was to the wall"
"competition was pushing them to the wall"

a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain)

a layer of material that encloses space;"the walls of the cylinder were perforated"
"the container"s walls were blue"

a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden);"the wall followed the road"
"he ducked behind the garden wall and waited"

an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes;"they stormed the ramparts of the city"
"they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down"

Verb:

surround with a wall in order to fortify

中英词源

wall 墙

来自拉丁语vallum,木柱，墙，或来自PIE*wel,转，拱起，词源同involve,vault。引申词义词墙。

wall: wall: [OE] Wall was borrowed into Old English from Latin vallum ‘rampart’. This originally denoted a ‘stockade made of stakes’, and it was derived from vallus ‘stake’. German wall, Dutch wal, and Swedish vall, also borrowings from Latin, preserve its meaning ‘rampart, embankment’, but English wall has become considerably wider in its application. An interval is etymologically a space ‘between ramparts’.
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wall (n.): Old English weall, Anglian wall "rampart, dike, earthwork" (natural as well as man-made), "dam, cliff, rocky shore," also "defensive fortification around a city, side of a building," an Anglo-Frisian and Saxon borrowing (Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch wal) from Latin vallum "wall, rampart, row or line of stakes," apparently a collective form of vallus "stake," from PIE *walso- "a post." Swedish vall, Danish val are from Low German.

Meaning "interior partition of a structure" is mid-13c. In this case, English uses one word where many languages have two, such as German Mauer "outer wall of a town, fortress, etc.," used also in reference to the former Berlin Wall, and wand "partition wall within a building" (compare the distinction, not always rigorously kept, in Italian muro/parete, Irish mur/fraig, Lithuanian muras/siena, etc.). The Latin word for "defensive wall" was murus (see mural).

Anatomical use from late 14c. To give (someone) the wall "allow him or her to walk on the (cleaner) wall side of the pavement" is from 1530s. To turn (one"s) face to the wall "prepare to die" is from 1570s. Phrase up the wall "angry, crazy" is from 1951; off the wall "unorthodox, unconventional" is recorded from 1966, American English student slang. To go over the wall "escape" (originally from prison) is from 1933. Wall-to-wall (adj.) recorded 1939, of shelving, etc.; metaphoric use (usually disparaging) is from 1967.
wall (v.): "to enclose with a wall," late Old English *weallian (implied in geweallod), from the source of wall (n.). Meaning "fill up (a doorway, etc.) with a wall" is from c. 1500. Meaning "shut up in a wall, immure" is from 1520s. Related: Walled; walling.

词态变化

复数 walls;
第三人称单数 walls;
过去式 walled;
现在分词 walling;

权威造句

1. Lucy had strung a banner across the wall saying "Welcome Home Daddy".: 露西在墙上挂了一条横幅，上面写着“欢迎爸爸回家”。

2. The child kept her eyes fixed on the wall behind him.: 这个小女孩眼睛一直紧盯着他身后的那堵墙。

3. A Wall Street Journal editorial encapsulated the views of many conservatives.: 《华尔街日报》的一篇社论概述了很多保守派人士的观点。

4. The pockmarks made by her bullets are still on the wall.: 墙上仍然有她的子弹留下的凹坑。

5. I cut it out and pinned it to my studio wall.: 我把它剪下来钉在我工作室的墙上。

近反义词

barrier

block

divider

cage

coop

enclose

envelop

fence

cell

相似短语

wall in 筑墙围住

to the wall 陷于绝境

the wall 墙

on the wall 在流浪, 失业

wall to wall 铺垫物无处不在的;大量的

wall to wall carpeting 满铺地毯

abutment wall,side wall 边墙

wall to wall inventory 全面盘存

Berlin wall n. 柏林围墙

dry wall n. 清水墙

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