As everybody knows, vocabulary is an important part of language, just like bricks in a building.
大家都知道，词汇是语言重要的组成部分，就像砖瓦对于楼房一样。
How then to possess it, how to hold on to the floating train, the 36 halva-like bricks or the English valley?
那么，我们如何拥有美，如何紧握住漂浮的列车、哈尔瓦模样的砖块抑或英国山谷之美呢？
MOBILE phones looked like bricks in the 1980s. That was largely because the batteries needed to power them were so hefty.
80年代的移动电话看起来像个砖头，这主要是因为为其供电的电池非常笨重。
I felt like I was hit by a whole ton of bricks.
我就像被整整一吨砖头砸到了头。
So everything they accomplished, like building this town, they did with just stone, plus wood, bricks, that sort of thing.
所以他们完成的所有事，比如建造这个小镇，都只用石头，还有木头，砖块这类的东西。
Disappointment hit her like a ton of bricks.
她大失所望。
She was like a cat on hot bricks before her driving test.
她考驾驶执照前十分紧张不安。
These are just like children's toy bricks, which can build different scenes in regular ways.
这些就像孩子们的积木，可以有规则地搭建不同的场景。
Once they arrive at the location, each section is lifted by crane directly to the top of the building, which is assembled like toy Lego bricks.
当他们到达目的地时，每一节都被起重机直接吊到楼顶，就像玩具乐高积木一样被组装起来。
They are like awful little bricks - too stiff, too rigid, with no flexibility at the sole and too much heel raise.
那些童鞋就像小砖头一样僵硬，鞋底不软，鞋跟太高。
The play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is named because of the sense of restlessness of the play and is evidently based on an older idiom “like a cat on hot bricks.”
《热铁皮屋顶上的猫》（CatonaHot Tin Roof）这出剧的名字就来源于剧情给人的无休无止的感觉，很明显，这种说法又源自一个更古老的俗语：好像热砖上的猫（like a cat on hot bricks）。
Dr Chauhan, of the University of Florida, said: 'These vitamin structures are like "nano-bricks". The drug molecules can't go through the vitamin e, they must go round it.
佛罗里达大学的Chauhan博士说：“这些维生素结构类似‘纳米砖块’，药物分子不能够通过维生素e，只能够绕过去。”
It helps that parents like Lego's toys (except when they tread on stray bricks with bare feet).
这样也可以使得父母们喜欢乐高玩具(只要他们没有光脚踩到这些零散的积木)。
But bad credit habits are like using paper mache instead of bricks.
但是糟糕的信贷习惯就像使用纸糊而不是在用砖块盖房。
Combining the pictures gives a three-dimensional view of the region, so moving objects like birds and bricks can be found and followed.
把这些照片综合起来呈现了这一地区的三维景象，因此诸如鸟类和碎片这一类的移动物体就会被发现和追踪。
Like most all hutong denizens, Mrs. Wang and her husband, Liu Xingye, have weathered decades of Beijing winters by feeding round bricks of coal into a squat pot-bellied stove.
和绝大多数有在胡同居住经历的北京居民一样，以前王女士和她丈夫刘兴业（音）在冬天以烧煤球取暖。
The epiphany hit me like a ton of bricks…“bad days are a choice”…I had been previously choosing something that I did not want.
我突然间顿悟了……“不如意的日子只是个选择而已”……我之前选择了自己不期望的事情。
As satisfying as it is to conveniently order shopping online from home, the wait to get it delivered can sometimes make a trip to a bricks-and-mortar store seem like a better option.
尽管在家通过网上订购商品的便捷性令人满意，但等待发货有时会让我们更愿意去实体店。
Believe it or not, it's a sell-out event where attendees are treated to talks on all sorts of boring things like paper bags, toilet roll quality control, lamp posts, and bricks.
信不信由你，这个活动非常卖座，与会者能听到的就是关于各种各样无聊事情的讲话，比如纸袋、卷筒卫生纸的质量控制、灯柱，和砖块。
It looks like Ross and Rachel's favorite hang out: the big orange couch, the oversized coffee mugs, the neon signage and bricks, and even the guitar on which Phoebe strummed "Smelly Cat."
这家咖啡厅看起来与老友记里面的那家一模一样：大大的橘色沙发，超大型马克杯，霓虹灯招牌，甚至有一把Phoebe的吉他。
Fisher Price, Mattel's preschool brand, launched bricks called TRIO, which boast of a "unique click-and-snap" technology but look a lot like Lego.
美泰公司针对学龄前儿童的品牌费雪也推出了“TRIO”系列品牌的积木，标榜为有着“独特的click - and - snap”技术，但看起来很像乐高。
The process of linear editing is much like stacking bricks one on top of the other, one at a time.
线性编辑的过程是很象堆积砖一个在其他顶部，一次一个。
As the party descended, Chen's parents were like cats on hot bricks thousands of kilometres away on her campus in Wuhan.
在登山队下山过程中，在数千公里外的中国地质大学(武汉校区)里，陈晨的父母急得就像热锅上的蚂蚁。
As the party descended, Chen's parents were like cats on hot bricks thousands of kilometres away on her campus in Wuhan.
在登山队下山过程中，在数千公里外的中国地质大学(武汉校区)里，陈晨的父母急得就像热锅上的蚂蚁。
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