wall

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wall1 /wɔːl $ wɒːl/ S1 W1 noun [countableC]

1 around an area 围绕一个区域DHTBB an upright flat structure made of stone or brick, that divides one area from another or surrounds an area 墙；围墙 → fence

stone/brick/concrete wall

The estate is surrounded by high stone walls.

庄园的四周是高高的石墙。

city/garden etc wall

the ancient city walls

古老的城墙

the Great Wall of China

中国的长城

We climbed over the wall into the orchard.

我们翻墙进了果园。

2 DHHin a building 在建筑物中 one of the sides of a room or building 〔房间或建筑物的〕墙壁

on the wall

I put some pictures up on the walls.

我在墙上挂了几幅照片。

Bob leaned against the wall.

鲍勃靠在墙上。

bedroom/kitchen etc wall

We decided to paint the bathroom walls blue.

我们决定把浴室墙壁漆成蓝色。

3 SIDEbody 身体 the side of something hollow, especially within the body 〔空心物，尤指体内器官的〕内壁

The walls of the blood vessels had been damaged.

血管壁已经受损。

cell walls

细胞壁

4 wall of fire/water etc AMOUNTa tall mass of something such as fire or water, that stops anything from getting past 〔使任何东西都无法通过的高大〕火墙/水墙等

The boat was hit by a wall of water.

小船被一道水幕击中。

Examples from the Corpus

wall of fire/water etc• Surrounding buildings had to be protected by a wall of water to stop them being engulfed by the flames.• A few minutes later, a wall of water crashed over the lip of the Falls and Niagara was in business again.• A wall of water a thousand feet high smashed down on Nagarythe.• And they drove off into another amazing wall of water.• I watched as the roof of the house seemed to rest on the four walls of fire.• But there was no wall of water crashing through the canyon.• Spray, driven by the wall of water, struck his face.• They had been through the wall of fire together.

5 wall of silence/secrecy SAYa situation in which nobody will tell you what you want to know 默不作声/秘而不宣〔指想知道某事却无人回应〕

The police investigation was met with a wall of silence.

警方的调查工作受阻，谁都闭口不言。

Examples from the Corpus

wall of silence/secrecy• A wall of silence has now descended over the key players.• Blount met with a convenient wall of silence.• Only Jim Crane, ambitious but a little more human than the other hacks, can break Alice's wall of silence.• Very soon a cold stone wall of silence had tormented them to wounded exasperation.• But the wall of silence that protected behind the scenes negotiations produced no answers.• Other cracks in the wall of secrecy have appeared in recent years, as we shall see in Chapter 5.

n6. Internet an area on a website such as Facebook where other people can leave messages and comments about you

7 up the wall spokenANGRY very angry or annoyed 非常恼火

That noise is driving me up the wall (=making me annoyed).

那声音都快把我逼疯了。

go up the wall British EnglishBrE

I’ve got to be on time or Sarah will go up the wall.

我一定得准时，否则萨拉要发火的。

Examples from the Corpus

go up the wall• If my dad went up the wall with that, what was he going to do with me?

8 off the wall informal very strange or unusual, often in an amusing way 古怪的；不同寻常的；奇妙的

Some of Krista’s ideas are a little off the wall.

克丽丝塔的一些想法有点新奇古怪。

Examples from the Corpus

off the wall• The noise of conversation from the hall below bounced off the walls around them.• Before I could grasp what was happening, I had bounced off the wall and was crumpling on to the floor in pain.• I jumped down off the wall and joined my sister who was standing behind them listening.• A Whitney Houston tape echoed off the walls.• There's a woman just up the road so I hop off the wall and run after her.• The husband tried to seize a portrait of her, an oil painting, rip it right off the wall.

9 go to the wall informalFAIL if a company goes to the wall, it fails, especially because of financial difficulties 〔尤指公司因财务困难而〕破产，倒闭

Many small investors will go to the wall.

许多小投资者将会破产。

Examples from the Corpus

go to the wall• Some farmers did go to the wall, but far fewer than predicted.• In the first six months of this year nearly 30,000 small firms went to the wall - a third up on 1991.• Small livestock farmers have gone to the wall in their thousands.• Over 300 small firms have gone to the wall in the past year.• Quickly he went to the wall safe at the far end of the room and touched the combination.• Those who could stand the pace flourished; those who could not went to the wall.• High interest rates will force many businesses to go to the wall.• It would be a tragic loss to theatre if such an important organisation were to go to the wall.• The trades unionist suspects that in competitive capitalism the weak go to the wall.• He's not a candidate that Democrats would go to the wall for.

10 these four walls spokenPRIVATE/PERSONAL the room that you are in, especially considered as a private place 〔某人所在的〕房间〔尤被视为私人的地方〕

I don’t want anything repeated outside these four walls.

我希望这些话出了这个屋子就不要再说了。

Examples from the Corpus

these four walls• What purpose did she serve sitting looking at these four walls?• I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls.• I don't want anything that I have said repeated outside these four walls.

11 be/come up against a (brick) wall to reach a point where you cannot make progress, especially because something or someone is stopping you 碰壁

We seem to have come up against a brick wall in this investigation.

我们这次调查似乎碰壁了。

Examples from the Corpus

be/come up against a (brick) wall• She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs, only to come up against a wall.

12 be climbing/crawling (up) the walls informalANNOY to be feeling extremely anxious, unhappy, or annoyed, especially because you are waiting for something or are in a situation which you cannot get away from 〔尤指因等待某事或不能做某事而〕极度焦急；不满；不耐烦；心烦意乱

The kids soon had him climbing the walls.

孩子们不久就搞得他心烦意乱。

Examples from the Corpus

be climbing/crawling (up) the walls• Realizes he is moving in her desperately, as if he is climbing the walls of a closed building.

13. walls have ears WARNused to warn people to be careful what they say, because other people, especially enemies, could be listening 隔墙有耳

14. hit the wall informalDS to reach the point when you are most physically tired when doing a sport 〔运动中〕到达极限

Examples from the Corpus

hit the wall• I miss and hit the wall.• Each time the ball hits the wall a brick disappears and you're closer to your aim of breaking down the wall.• Witnesses swear that as fast as the line drive hit the wall, Rivera was rounding second before it touched the ground.• It hit the wall four feet below him.• It hit the wall near the window and smashed.• It gathers speed, and suddenly hits the wall by the foot of the bed.• During the 1982 recession, the deepest since the Depression, state governments began to hit the wall.• He expected to hit the wall of the cliff somewhere up ahead.

→ have your back to/against the wall at back2(21), → be (like) banging your head against a brick wall at head1, → like talking to a brick wall at talk1(15), → the writing is on the wall at writing(8), → off-the-wall

n THESAURUS

wall an upright flat structure made of stone or brick, that divides one area from another or surrounds an area

The estate is surrounded by high stone walls.

a brick wall

fence a structure made of wood, metal etc that surrounds a piece of land

The garden was surrounded by an old wooden fence.

the chain link fence around the school

railings a metal fence that is made of a series of upright bars

the iron railings in front of the house

The boy was leaning over the railing on the side of the boat.

barrier a type of fence or gate that prevents people from moving in a particular direction

A guard stood near the barrier.

The police had put up barriers to keep the crowd under control.

screen a piece of furniture like a thin wall that can be moved around and is used to divide one part of a room from another

the screen around his hospital bed

a Japanese bamboo screen

a fire screen (=that you put near a fire)

partition a thin wall that separates one part of a room from another

The room was divided into two by a thin partition.

The offices are separated by partitions and you can hear everything that is said in the next office.

barricade a line of objects that people have put across a road, to prevent people getting past, especially as part of a protest

The soldiers used tanks to smash through the barricades.

Examples from the Corpus

wall• A brick wall surrounds the building.• Built in 1537 of brick, it has immense circular mural towers and massive, impregnable walls.• But no one can figure out a way to take that wall down without damaging the FleetCenter wall.• The joists support all the walls, so the walls of the bathroom had to be torn out.• My granda used to pin his favourite tenant's letters to the wall of his cupboard.• He spotted another phalanx of flies stuck to the walls.• The walls were lined with another fine matting woven in a large diamond design of red and green.• We should hang the picture on this wall over here.

city/garden etc wall• Our escorts, both dressed in blazers and boaters jumped on-board - and promptly steered us straight for a garden wall.• Suddenly from every house, from the beached ships, from every garden wall MacIans were leaping out.• Enjoy a walk along the city walls and a stroll beside the Dee.• The cart went along by the garden wall, and round to the back door.• Vaughan eventually found Tyndale in Antwerp and had several talks with him in a meadow outside the city walls.• As we passed through the city wall, a great shout went up from the occupants of the car.• The garden walls appear to be more archaic than the house.• It is a Bedouin band; and next morning there remains not a single living soul within those city walls.

bedroom/kitchen etc wall• I stopped listening to Jake Rosso's records, and took his pictures off my bedroom wall.• I looked at the clock on our kitchen wall.• The outside yard was about seven feet in width and bordered by the kitchen wall.• The thumping, pulsating music shook the kitchen walls.• The kitchen walls literally run with water at times!• Unfortunately, you can not gain access to your inner clock as easily as the clock on your kitchen wall.• These objects add instant nostalgia when hung on your kitchen wall or placed in a basket on your counter top.

wall2 verb

1.wall something ↔ in phrasal verbphr v AROUND/ROUNDto surround an open area with walls 用墙围住

2 wall something ↔ off phrasal verbphr v SEPARATEto keep one area or room separate from another, by building a wall 用墙隔开

The control room is walled off by soundproof glass.

控制室是用隔音玻璃隔起来的。

3 wall somebody/something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v

a) TBCto fill in an entrance, window etc with bricks or stone 用砖石堵上〔通道、窗等〕

The entrance had long since been walled up.

入口处早就被堵死了。

b) to fill in all the entrances and windows of a place so that someone cannot get out 封死〔入口或窗户〕

b) SCJPRISONto keep someone as a prisoner in a building 监禁，囚禁

From Longman Business Dictionary

wallwall /wɔːlwɒːl/ nounFINANCE

1go to the wall if a business goes to the wall, it fails, especially because of financial difficulties

One of the highest-flyers in the computer industry went to the wall a year ago because of trouble handling a large acquisition.

2hit a wall if sales, profits etc hit a wall, they reach their highest point before beginning to fall

Booming car sales in Germany hit a wall in August, plummeting 40%.

→ see also Chinese wall, party wall

Origin wall1

Old English weall

单词	wall
释义	wall Word family adjectivewalledwall-to-wallnounwallerwallingwallboardwallchartwallclimberwallcoveringwallcreeperwalleyewallfishwallflowerwall paintingwallpaperWall Streetwallwasherwallwortwall Related topics: Household, Buildings, House wall1 /wɔːl $ wɒːl/ ●●● S1 W1 noun [countableC] 1 around an area 围绕一个区域DHTBB an upright flat structure made of stone or brick, that divides one area from another or surrounds an area 墙；围墙 → fence stone/brick/concrete wall The estate is surrounded by high stone walls. 庄园的四周是高高的石墙。 city/garden etc wall the ancient city walls 古老的城墙 the Great Wall of China 中国的长城 We climbed over the wall into the orchard. 我们翻墙进了果园。 2 DHHin a building 在建筑物中 one of the sides of a room or building 〔房间或建筑物的〕墙壁 on the wall I put some pictures up on the walls. 我在墙上挂了几幅照片。 Bob leaned against the wall. 鲍勃靠在墙上。 bedroom/kitchen etc wall We decided to paint the bathroom walls blue. 我们决定把浴室墙壁漆成蓝色。 3 SIDEbody 身体 the side of something hollow, especially within the body 〔空心物，尤指体内器官的〕内壁 The walls of the blood vessels had been damaged. 血管壁已经受损。 cell walls 细胞壁 4 wall of fire/water etc AMOUNTa tall mass of something such as fire or water, that stops anything from getting past 〔使任何东西都无法通过的高大〕火墙/水墙等 The boat was hit by a wall of water. 小船被一道水幕击中。 Examples from the Corpus wall of fire/water etc• Surrounding buildings had to be protected by a wall of water to stop them being engulfed by the flames.• A few minutes later, a wall of water crashed over the lip of the Falls and Niagara was in business again.• A wall of water a thousand feet high smashed down on Nagarythe.• And they drove off into another amazing wall of water.• I watched as the roof of the house seemed to rest on the four walls of fire.• But there was no wall of water crashing through the canyon.• Spray, driven by the wall of water, struck his face.• They had been through the wall of fire together. 5 wall of silence/secrecy SAYa situation in which nobody will tell you what you want to know 默不作声/秘而不宣〔指想知道某事却无人回应〕 The police investigation was met with a wall of silence. 警方的调查工作受阻，谁都闭口不言。 Examples from the Corpus wall of silence/secrecy• A wall of silence has now descended over the key players.• Blount met with a convenient wall of silence.• Only Jim Crane, ambitious but a little more human than the other hacks, can break Alice's wall of silence.• Very soon a cold stone wall of silence had tormented them to wounded exasperation.• But the wall of silence that protected behind the scenes negotiations produced no answers.• Other cracks in the wall of secrecy have appeared in recent years, as we shall see in Chapter 5. n6. Internet an area on a website such as Facebook where other people can leave messages and comments about you 7 up the wall spokenANGRY very angry or annoyed 非常恼火 That noise is driving me up the wall (=making me annoyed). 那声音都快把我逼疯了。 go up the wall British EnglishBrE I’ve got to be on time or Sarah will go up the wall. 我一定得准时，否则萨拉要发火的。 Examples from the Corpus go up the wall• If my dad went up the wall with that, what was he going to do with me? 8 off the wall informal very strange or unusual, often in an amusing way 古怪的；不同寻常的；奇妙的 Some of Krista’s ideas are a little off the wall. 克丽丝塔的一些想法有点新奇古怪。 Examples from the Corpus off the wall• The noise of conversation from the hall below bounced off the walls around them.• Before I could grasp what was happening, I had bounced off the wall and was crumpling on to the floor in pain.• I jumped down off the wall and joined my sister who was standing behind them listening.• A Whitney Houston tape echoed off the walls.• There's a woman just up the road so I hop off the wall and run after her.• The husband tried to seize a portrait of her, an oil painting, rip it right off the wall. 9 go to the wall informalFAIL if a company goes to the wall, it fails, especially because of financial difficulties 〔尤指公司因财务困难而〕破产，倒闭 Many small investors will go to the wall. 许多小投资者将会破产。 Examples from the Corpus go to the wall• Some farmers did go to the wall, but far fewer than predicted.• In the first six months of this year nearly 30,000 small firms went to the wall - a third up on 1991.• Small livestock farmers have gone to the wall in their thousands.• Over 300 small firms have gone to the wall in the past year.• Quickly he went to the wall safe at the far end of the room and touched the combination.• Those who could stand the pace flourished; those who could not went to the wall.• High interest rates will force many businesses to go to the wall.• It would be a tragic loss to theatre if such an important organisation were to go to the wall.• The trades unionist suspects that in competitive capitalism the weak go to the wall.• He's not a candidate that Democrats would go to the wall for. 10 these four walls spokenPRIVATE/PERSONAL the room that you are in, especially considered as a private place 〔某人所在的〕房间〔尤被视为私人的地方〕 I don’t want anything repeated outside these four walls. 我希望这些话出了这个屋子就不要再说了。 Examples from the Corpus these four walls• What purpose did she serve sitting looking at these four walls?• I can not be said to have a life outside these four walls.• I don't want anything that I have said repeated outside these four walls. 11 be/come up against a (brick) wall to reach a point where you cannot make progress, especially because something or someone is stopping you 碰壁 We seem to have come up against a brick wall in this investigation. 我们这次调查似乎碰壁了。 Examples from the Corpus be/come up against a (brick) wall• She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs, only to come up against a wall. 12 be climbing/crawling (up) the walls informalANNOY to be feeling extremely anxious, unhappy, or annoyed, especially because you are waiting for something or are in a situation which you cannot get away from 〔尤指因等待某事或不能做某事而〕极度焦急；不满；不耐烦；心烦意乱 The kids soon had him climbing the walls. 孩子们不久就搞得他心烦意乱。 Examples from the Corpus be climbing/crawling (up) the walls• Realizes he is moving in her desperately, as if he is climbing the walls of a closed building. 13. walls have ears WARNused to warn people to be careful what they say, because other people, especially enemies, could be listening 隔墙有耳 14. hit the wall informalDS to reach the point when you are most physically tired when doing a sport 〔运动中〕到达极限 Examples from the Corpus hit the wall• I miss and hit the wall.• Each time the ball hits the wall a brick disappears and you're closer to your aim of breaking down the wall.• Witnesses swear that as fast as the line drive hit the wall, Rivera was rounding second before it touched the ground.• It hit the wall four feet below him.• It hit the wall near the window and smashed.• It gathers speed, and suddenly hits the wall by the foot of the bed.• During the 1982 recession, the deepest since the Depression, state governments began to hit the wall.• He expected to hit the wall of the cliff somewhere up ahead. → have your back to/against the wall at back2(21), → be (like) banging your head against a brick wall at head1, → like talking to a brick wall at talk1(15), → the writing is on the wall at writing(8), → off-the-wall n THESAURUS wall an upright flat structure made of stone or brick, that divides one area from another or surrounds an area The estate is surrounded by high stone walls. a brick wall fence a structure made of wood, metal etc that surrounds a piece of land The garden was surrounded by an old wooden fence. the chain link fence around the school railings a metal fence that is made of a series of upright bars the iron railings in front of the house The boy was leaning over the railing on the side of the boat. barrier a type of fence or gate that prevents people from moving in a particular direction A guard stood near the barrier. The police had put up barriers to keep the crowd under control. screen a piece of furniture like a thin wall that can be moved around and is used to divide one part of a room from another the screen around his hospital bed a Japanese bamboo screen a fire screen (=that you put near a fire) partition a thin wall that separates one part of a room from another The room was divided into two by a thin partition. The offices are separated by partitions and you can hear everything that is said in the next office. barricade a line of objects that people have put across a road, to prevent people getting past, especially as part of a protest The soldiers used tanks to smash through the barricades. Examples from the Corpus wall• A brick wall surrounds the building.• Built in 1537 of brick, it has immense circular mural towers and massive, impregnable walls.• But no one can figure out a way to take that wall down without damaging the FleetCenter wall.• The joists support all the walls, so the walls of the bathroom had to be torn out.• My granda used to pin his favourite tenant's letters to the wall of his cupboard.• He spotted another phalanx of flies stuck to the walls.• The walls were lined with another fine matting woven in a large diamond design of red and green.• We should hang the picture on this wall over here. city/garden etc wall• Our escorts, both dressed in blazers and boaters jumped on-board - and promptly steered us straight for a garden wall.• Suddenly from every house, from the beached ships, from every garden wall MacIans were leaping out.• Enjoy a walk along the city walls and a stroll beside the Dee.• The cart went along by the garden wall, and round to the back door.• Vaughan eventually found Tyndale in Antwerp and had several talks with him in a meadow outside the city walls.• As we passed through the city wall, a great shout went up from the occupants of the car.• The garden walls appear to be more archaic than the house.• It is a Bedouin band; and next morning there remains not a single living soul within those city walls. bedroom/kitchen etc wall• I stopped listening to Jake Rosso's records, and took his pictures off my bedroom wall.• I looked at the clock on our kitchen wall.• The outside yard was about seven feet in width and bordered by the kitchen wall.• The thumping, pulsating music shook the kitchen walls.• The kitchen walls literally run with water at times!• Unfortunately, you can not gain access to your inner clock as easily as the clock on your kitchen wall.• These objects add instant nostalgia when hung on your kitchen wall or placed in a basket on your counter top. wall2 verb 1.wall something ↔ in phrasal verbphr v AROUND/ROUNDto surround an open area with walls 用墙围住 2 wall something ↔ off phrasal verbphr v SEPARATEto keep one area or room separate from another, by building a wall 用墙隔开 The control room is walled off by soundproof glass. 控制室是用隔音玻璃隔起来的。 3 wall somebody/something ↔ up phrasal verbphr v a) a) TBCto fill in an entrance, window etc with bricks or stone 用砖石堵上〔通道、窗等〕 The entrance had long since been walled up. 入口处早就被堵死了。 b) to fill in all the entrances and windows of a place so that someone cannot get out 封死〔入口或窗户〕 b) SCJPRISONto keep someone as a prisoner in a building 监禁，囚禁 From Longman Business Dictionary wallwall /wɔːlwɒːl/ nounFINANCE 1go to the wall if a business goes to the wall, it fails, especially because of financial difficulties One of the highest-flyers in the computer industry went to the wall a year ago because of trouble handling a large acquisition. 2hit a wall if sales, profits etc hit a wall, they reach their highest point before beginning to fall Booming car sales in Germany hit a wall in August, plummeting 40%. → see also Chinese wall, party wall Origin wall1 Old English weall
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