adobe
adobe 英 [əˈdəʊbi] 美 [əˈdoʊbi]
n. 土砖，砖坯
名词复数:adobes
- If you've ever visited New Mexico and noticed earthy looking buildings everywhere, chances are they're made from adobe, a type of brick that's dried in the sun.
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- n. 土砖，砖坯
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1. Workers plastered the Akapana pyramid – one of the biggest constructions in South America which predates the Incas – with adobe to make it look more impressive.
工匠们垒砌了土砖，并将这座印加王朝既存的最宏伟建筑粉饰一新--他们想让它的外观令人印象更深刻。
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2. The Anasazi used hardened dry mud, called adobe, along with sandstone to form intricate buildings and were sometimes found high in the natural overhangs of the mesas.
阿纳萨奇人用这些干泥巴（即土砖）和沙石建造了复杂的建筑，有时候建在陡峭的台地悬崖上。
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3. These buildings are made of adobe brick.
这些建筑都是由风干的砖坯砌成。
- adobe (n.) 1739, American English, from Spanish adobe "unburnt brick dried in the sun," which is said by 19c. Dutch Arabist Reinhart Dozy to be from oral form of Arabic al-tob "the brick," from Coptic tube "brick," a word found in hieroglyphics. Other sources point to a Spanish adobar "daub, plaster," from the source of English daub (v.).
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