Brick

(noun.) rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material.

(noun.) a good fellow; helpful and trustworthy.

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• Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• And the solid brick walls are seven feet through. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• All these were substantially built of brick. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In the building of the Cooper Institute in New York City in 1857 he was the first to employ such beams with brick arches to support the floors. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The next operation is for moulding and pressing the brick. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• For my temptation to _think_ it a right, I refer every caviller to a brick house, sashed windows below, and casements above, in Highbury. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Somewhat as a house is composed of a group of bricks, or a sand heap of grains of sand, the human body is composed of small divisions called cells. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• All these great walls are as exact and shapely as the flimsy things we build of bricks in these days. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The draught is maintained by placing the apparatus on a couple of bricks, and regulated by closing the intervening space with mud, leaving only a sufficient aperture to keep the fire burning. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Blossom what would, its bricks and bars bore uniformly the same dead crop. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• In some the pug mill is arranged horizontally to feed out the clay in the form of a long horizontal slab, which is cut up into proper lengths to form the bricks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• And in the laying of bricks and stones is the just man a more useful or better partner than the builder? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• We have all seen fence posts and bricks pushed out of place because of the heaving of the soil beneath them. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The room had once been lighted by a small side window, but this had been bricked up, and a lantern skylight was now substituted for it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

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