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clay

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n.粘土,泥土,肉体,人体,似黏土的东西,陶土制的烟斗

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clay


/kleɪ; kle/
n
1 [U] stiff sticky earth that becomes hard when baked, used for making bricks and pottery 黏土
*[attrib 作定语] clay soil 黏质土壤
* clay tiles 陶土瓦.
2 (idm 习语) have feet of clay => foot1.

clay


n[U]
[Language: Old English;Origin: clAg]
a type of heavy sticky earth that can be used for making pots, bricks etc
feet of clayatfoot1 (27)
1. We make bricks from clay.
    我们用泥土制砖。

2. Wet clay and sand are puddled together.
    湿黏土和沙子被混拌在一起。

3. The city was even equipped with a drainage system, for a great many clay pipes were found beneath the narrow streets.
    城里甚至还敷设了排水系统,因为在狭窄的街道底下发现了许许多多陶土制作的排水管道。

4. That's when workmen using huge machines began clawing out 1,000 tons of clay every half hour as they bored from England to France.
    1987年开工时,工人们用巨大的机械设备以每半小时挖掘1,000吨泥土的速度由英国向法国掘进。

5. Sculptors make statues of marble and bronze or models in clay.
    雕刻家用大理石、铜或粘土来制作雕像。

6. Clay: I´ll bet. You´re probably one of those Berkeley leftovers from 1968.
    柯雷:我敢说,你可能是1968年那些伯克来遗留份子之一.

7. "Lead" pencils do not contain lead , but rather a mizture of clay and graphite.
    “铅”笔并不含铅,而是粘土和石墨的混合物。

8. Neither the people who own stock in the company, nor the officers of the 220 banks that provided history's biggest loan, nor the 3,000 journalists trying to imagine three parallel tunnels beneath 100 feet of water and 130 feet of clay.
    不论是公司的股票持有人,还是提供了历史上最大贷款的220家银行的官员们,或者是3,000名记者,都无一例外。记者们只可尽力想像水下100英尺、泥土下130英尺的三条并行的隧道的状况。

9. In the most sacred room of the temple, clay fragments of fifteen statues were found.
    在庙中最神圣的一间殿堂里发现了15尊陶雕像的碎片。

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