英汉词典

wall 基本解释

• n. 墙壁，围墙；似墙之物
• vt. 用墙围住，围以墙
• adj. 墙壁的
• n. (Wall)人名；(英)沃尔；(德、芬、捷、瑞典)瓦尔

wall 词态变化

wall 中文词源

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 英文词源

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.

wall 词组搭配

wall 英文释义

1. 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"

2. 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"

3. 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"

4. a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden);

"the wall followed the road"

"he ducked behind the garden wall and waited"

5. (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure;

"stomach walls"

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

7. a layer of material that encloses space;

"the walls of the cylinder were perforated"

"the container's walls were blue"

8. a difficult or awkward situation;

"his back was to the wall"

"competition was pushing them to the wall"

wall 双语例句

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”。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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wall 实用场景例句

The fields were divided by stone walls.

这些田地由石墙分隔。

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He sat on the wall and watched the others playing.

他坐在墙头上看别人玩耍。

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I'm going to paint the walls white and the ceiling pink.

我打算把墙壁刷成白色，把天花板刷成粉红色。

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Hang the picture on the wall opposite the window.

把这张画挂在对着窗的墙上。

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She leaned against the wall.

她倚靠着墙。

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The boat struck a solid wall of water.

船撞上一道水幕。

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The investigators were confronted by a wall of silence .

调查人员碰了壁，问谁谁都默不作声。

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the abdominal wall

腹腔壁

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the wall of an artery

动脉血管壁

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Some of his ideas are really off the wall.

他有些想法真是十分新奇。

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off-the-wall ideas

奇妙的想法

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That noise is driving me up the wall.

那噪音让我都快疯了。

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I mustn't be late or Dad will go up the wall.

我不能晚了，否则爸爸会发脾气的。

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a walled city

有城墙的城市

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Kathryn leaned against the wall of the church...

凯瑟琳倚靠在教堂的墙上。

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The bedroom walls would be painted light blue...

卧室的墙壁会被漆成浅蓝色。

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He sat on the wall in the sun...

他坐在墙上晒太阳。

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The well is surrounded by a wall only 12 inches high.

井台只有12英寸高。

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He ran his fingers along the inside walls of the box.

他用手指摸了摸盒子的内壁。

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She gazed at the wall of books...

她目不转睛地盯着书墙。

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I was just hit by a wall of water.

我刚撞上了一堵水墙。

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The police say they met the usual wall of silence...

警方称他们像往常一样碰了壁，没人吭气。

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Despite its prevalence, schizophrenia has existed behind a wall of secrecy for years.

尽管精神分裂症患者为数众多，但多年来这种病一直被捂着掩着。

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I appealed for help but felt I was always banging my head against a wall...

我寻求帮助，却发现自己处处碰壁。

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I wondered if I was banging my head against a brick wall.

我怀疑自己是不是在把鸡蛋往石头上碰，徒劳无益。

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Their threat to hire replacement workers has the union with its back to the wall.

他们威胁说要雇用替工，这使工会陷入了困境。

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Sitting at home would only have had him climbing the walls with frustration.

呆在家里只会让他沮丧得抓狂。

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The heat is driving me up the wall...

炎热快把我逼疯了。

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I sang in the bath and drove my parents up the wall.

我在浴室里唱歌，我父母快受不了了。

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Even quite big companies are going to the wall these days.

现如今甚至有些大公司也濒临破产。

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