adobe

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n. 风干土坯 [化] 风干砖; 土砖; 灰质粘土; 多孔粘土

发音

UK /əˈdəʊ.bi/
US /əˈdoʊ.bi/

词形变化

adobes 复数 adobes

别名

dobe

教材释义与例句

名词

土砖，砖坯

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An unburnt brick dried in the sun.

    土坯

    泥砖

    砖坯

    不可数

    Many people in Texas and New Mexico live in adobe houses.

    The Jawas mutter gibberish as they busily line up their battered captives, including Artoo and Threepio, in front of the enormous Sandcrawler, which is parked beside a small homestead consisting of three large holes in the ground surrounded by several tall moisture vaporators and one small adobe block house.

    26 May 2003, Roger Angell, in The New Yorker, The Sangre de Cristos came into view and the first soft-cornered adobe houses, and that night we ate at La Fonda with my Aunt Elsie, who worked for the Indian Bureau, and had Hopi snake dances and San Ildefonso pottery-makers and Mabel Dodge Luhan in store for us in the coming weeks.

  2. 2.

    The earth from which such bricks are made.

    不可数
  3. 3.

    A house made of adobe brick.

    土砖房

    不可数

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

clay brick

相关短语

adobe bread adobe breads adobe lily [网络] 土豆百合 adobe lilies

词源

Etymology tree Egyptian ḏbt Demotic Egyptian tb Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe)der. Arabic طُوبَة (ṭūba) Andalusian Arabic طُوبَة Andalusian Arabic طُوبder. Spanish adobebor. English adobe From Spanish adobe, from Arabic اَلطُّوب (aṭ-ṭūb), from Sahidic Coptic ⲧⲱⲃⲉ (tōbe, “brick”), from Demotic Egyptian (tb, “brick”), from Egyptian Db-b-t:O39 (ḏbt, “brick, block, ingot”).

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