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墻;墻壁
A wall is one of the vertical sides of a building or room.
例句
Kathryn leaned against the wall of the church...
凱瑟琳倚靠在教堂的墻上。
The bedroom walls would be painted light blue...
臥室的墻壁會被漆成淺藍色。
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(石或磚砌成的)圍墻，隔墻
A wall is a long narrow vertical structure made of stone or brick that surrounds or divides an area of land.
例句
He sat on the wall in the sun...
他坐在墻上曬太陽。
The well is surrounded by a wall only 12 inches high.
井臺只有12英寸高。
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(中空物體的)壁，內壁
The wall of something that is hollow is its side.
例句
He ran his fingers along the inside walls of the box.
他用手指摸了摸盒子的內壁。
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屏障;堆成墻的大量物品
A wall of something is a large amount of it forming a high vertical barrier.
例句
She gazed at the wall of books...
她目不轉睛地盯著書墻。
I was just hit by a wall of water.
我剛撞上了一堵水墻。
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障礙;隔閡;壁壘
You can describe something as a wall of a particular kind when it acts as a barrier and prevents people from understanding something.
例句
The police say they met the usual wall of silence...
警方稱他們像往常一樣碰了壁，沒人吭氣。
Despite its prevalence, schizophrenia has existed behind a wall of secrecy for years.
盡管精神分裂癥患者為數眾多，但多年來這種病一直被捂著掩著。
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碰壁;徒勞
If you say that you are banging your head against a wall, you are emphasizing that you are frustrated because someone is stopping you from making progress in something.
例句
I appealed for help but felt I was always banging my head against a wall...
我尋求幫助，卻發(fā)現自己處處碰壁。
I wondered if I was banging my head against a brick wall.
我懷疑自己是不是在把雞蛋往石頭上碰，徒勞無益。
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處于困境（或絕境);走投無路
If you have your back to the wall, you are in a very difficult situation and can see no way out of it.
例句
Their threat to hire replacement workers has the union with its back to the wall.
他們威脅說要雇用替工，這使工會陷入了困境。
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(感到)十分沮喪（或緊張、焦慮）
If you say that you are climbing the walls, you are emphasizing that you feel very frustrated, nervous, or anxious.
例句
Sitting at home would only have had him climbing the walls with frustration.
呆在家里只會讓他沮喪得抓狂。
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把…逼得發(fā)瘋；逼得…受不了
If you say that something or someone is driving you up the wall, you are emphasizing that they annoy and irritate you.
例句
The heat is driving me up the wall...
炎熱快把我逼瘋了。
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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破產;(生意)失敗
If a person or company goes to the wall, they lose all their money and their business fails.
例句
Even quite big companies are going to the wall these days.
現如今甚至有些大公司也瀕臨破產。