砖

Example sentences

• 你需要多少塊兒磁磚？ How many tiles do you need?
• 一陣寒意像磚頭一樣擊中了我。 A cold wave of fear hit me like a brick.
• 把安全帽戴上。這裡很可能會有磚塊砸到你頭上。 Put your hard hat on. You might well get a brick fall on your head here.
• 但我将总是会向你们坦陈我们所面临的挑战。我会听取你们的意见，尤其是存在不同意见的时候。最重要的是，我会请求你们参与重建这个国家，以美国221年来从未改变的唯一方式-一砖一瓦、同心协力。 But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years; block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.
• 我在黑暗的巷子中絆倒，膝蓋砸在柏油路上。一塊木板蓋著巷弄的房屋之間的電線。深夜的巷弄非常之暗。我的眼鏡從眼睛上掉了下來。幸好有一位帶著手電筒的廣東工人幫忙。我的膝蓋只是擦破了皮。我想起另一次膝蓋摔傷是在菲律賓奎松市的唐荷西高地。那裡有一大片火星般的紅土地，遍地長滿了「塔拉希布」草。有時工人會故意縱火燒草。我和哥哥當時還在外面玩。那時我們還未到青春期。在燃燒的野草旁，我摔倒了，膝蓋著地。我的貝貝姥姥憤怒不已。家裡的女傭在車庫後面的大磁磚水槽裡幫我清洗了雙腿。 I tripped in the alleyway in the darkness, as I crashed my knees on the asphalt. There was a wooden board that covered a wire between houses across the alleyway. It was very dark there at night. My eyeglasses fell off my face. Luckily, a Cantonese labourer with a flashlight helped me. My knees just got scraped. I remember another time when I crashed on my knees. It was at Don José Heights in Quezon City in the Philippines. There was a vastness of Martianesque red soil, wherein the "talahib" grass grew. Sometimes, workers intentionally set the grass on fire. My brother and I were still playing, even then, outside. We were still prepubescent. Near burning grass, I stumbled on my knees. My grandmother, Lola Bebe, was so angry. A maid washed my legs in the big tiled sink behind the garage.

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