| 英语单词 | mortar |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['mɔːtə(r)] 美 ['mɔːrtər] |
| 中文释义 | n.臼;研钵;[军]迫击炮 n.灰泥;灰浆 v.用灰泥涂抹;用灰泥结合 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The farmers pound rice in a mortar. (2) He ground the rock candy with a mortar and pestle. (3) The army was fired by mortars. (4) Mortar is used to knit bricks together. (5) Put your money into bricks and mortar. (6) The brick-layer at the top of the scaffold is calling for more mortar. (7) Stones are bedded in mortar or concrete. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 农民们在臼中舂米。 (2) 他自己动手用研钵和杵把冰糖研成粉。 (3) 军队被迫击炮攻击。 (4) 灰泥是用来黏合砖的。 (5) 用你的钱去买房子吧。 (6) 脚手架顶上的砌砖工人喊着要人再送些灰浆上去。 (7) 用灰泥或水泥砌石块。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A mortar is a bowl-shaped container that you can grind things in using a pestle. You probably buy your spices pre-ground at the store, but if you wanted to be old-school, you could grind them yourself with a mortar and pestle. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Mortar is an old word — it comes from Old English, and using a mortar to smash things up is old way of cooking. It's also the builder's paste used between bricks. If you've heard the phrase "brick and mortar," that's a style of building, as well as a general phrase for something with a real building (as opposed to an internet business). And it's also a gun that fires high bullets that land short-range. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]迫击炮 A mortar is a big gun which fires missiles high into the air over a short distance.
2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]灰浆;砂浆;胶泥 Mortar is a mixture of sand, water, and cement or lime which is put between bricks to hold them together. 3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]研钵;臼 A mortar is a bowl in which you can crush things such as herbs, spices, or grain using a rod called a pestle. 4 bricks and mortar→see: brick ; |
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