It looks like brick-work, but to the natural eye it doesn't look like a picture.
结果他的作品倒很像一所砖房，但可惜在一般正常人看来却不像一张图画。
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And here, through the mere excitement, I rapped heavily, with a cane which I held in my hand, upon that very portion of the brick-work behind which stood the corpse of the wife of my bosom.
说到这儿，我十分激动地用手上的一根棍子重重地敲了敲那堵砖墙，我妻子的尸体就藏在那里面。
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Mikael is desperate to find a job believing that work is the yellow brick road which will lead him "to come back to the normal life, " as he puts it.