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build.ing5bIl7dINna structure with walls and a roof such as a house or factory, or the business of making buildings建筑物The once-empty site was now covered with buildings. [C]一度空着的地方现在布满了建筑物。It's not a very beautiful building but it's comfortable to be in. [C]这幢建筑不很漂亮，但住起来很舒适。He started off in the building trade before opening his own restaurant. [U]在自己的餐馆开张前，他做建筑生意起家。(fig.) Science and the arts are the building blocks of (= the basic things that make) a good education. [U]科学和艺术是良好教育的基础。A building site is a piece of land on which a house or other building is being built.建筑工地(Br and Aus) A building society / (Am and Aus) savings and loan association is a business that lends you money if you want to buy a house or pays you INTEREST on money you invest there.建筑合作社
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