walls
英 ['wɔ:lz] 美 ['wɔlz]

n.

墙( wall的名词复数 )；屏障；隔阂；壁垒

英英释义

wall

• n.
  • 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"

  • an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes

    "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down"

    同义词：rampartbulwark

  • 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"

  • a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden)

    "the wall followed the road"; "he ducked behind the garden wall and waited"

  • (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure

    "stomach walls"

    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

    "the walls of the cylinder were perforated"; "the container's walls were blue"

  • a difficult or awkward situation

    "his back was to the wall"; "competition was pushing them to the wall"

• v.surround with a wall in order to fortify

  同义词：palisadefencefence insurround

词组短语

walls have ears隔墙有耳

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. Wipe the walls down with a soapy cloth.
   用带肥皂的布把墙壁彻底擦一下。
2. It's time to whitewash the basement walls again.
   该把地下室的墙壁重新粉刷一下了。

权威例句

Polychromatic staining of plant cell walls by toluidine blue O
Cosgrove, D. J. Loosening of plant cell walls by expansins. Nature 407, 321-326
The Vertebrate Eye and Its Adaptive Radiation. by Gordon Lynn Walls
The Structure of Plant Cell Walls. II. the Hemicellulose of the Walls of Suspension-Cultured Sycamore Cells
Cobalt-catalysed growth of carbon nanotubes with single-atomic-layer walls
Periodic mesoporous organosilicas with organic groups inside the channel walls
Arterial walls generate from prostaglandin endoperoxides a substance (prostaglandin X) which relaxes strips of mesenteric and coelia...
Structural models of primary cell walls in flowering plants: consistency of molecular structure with the physical properties of the ...
Micropolar nanofluid flow and heat transfer between penetrable walls in the presence of thermal radiation and magnetic field
Influences of Wind Velocity and Direction on Solar Energy Gain of Building South Walls in Winter in Shanghai