They put their money into bricks and mortar.
他们把钱投资到了房产上。
While e-shops can use sights and sounds, only bricks-and-mortar stores can offer a full experience from the minute customers step through the door to the moment they leave.
虽然网店可以提供图片和声音，但只有实体店可以为顾客提供从踏入门店到离开那一刻的全面体验。
It is a bricks and mortar industry that caters to the local market.
这是一个有关砖头与灰泥的行业，面向的是国内市场。
In some places, bricks are merely piled on bricks, with the merest film of mortar; in others structural reinforcement seemed suspiciously slight.
在一些地方，甚至仅仅是砖块上堆着砖块，砖与砖之间仅有一层像电影胶片般单薄的泥浆；有些地方的建筑强化结构疑似不足。
A personality within it was so far-reaching in her influence as to spread into and make the bricks, mortar, and whole overhanging sky throb with a burning sensibility.
这是因为屋子里住着一个人物，她的影响是如此深远广大，深入到了砖墙、灰壁和头顶的整个蓝天之中，使它们带着燃烧的感觉搏动。
Most outsiders were convinced that our bricks-and-mortar video retail business would be killed off by market shifts and technological advances.
许多局外人认为我们的砖砖瓦瓦的视频零售业务会因为市场的升级和科技的进步而失败。
For example, they must maintain bricks-and-mortar shops, so that disgruntled staff and customers have somewhere to go to make complaints.
例如，他们要求必须维持一家实体商店，以保证心怀不满的员工和客户有地方进行投诉。
Unmanaged travellers are typically sole traders of people working for small to medium sized companies who do not use a traditional bricks and mortar business travel agency.
一般来说，这些商务旅行者都是中小型企业的雇员，而这些企业也不会通过传统的“水泥+鼠标”旅行社来预订。
Its levy is supported by many bricks-and-mortar retailers, including Walmart and Target, which argue that exemption from the tax hands an unfair advantage to their online rivals.
征税法案得到了许多传统实体零售商的支持，包括沃尔玛与塔吉特，它们认为网购免税提供给它们网上竞争对手不公平的优势。
Their strategy was so successful that soon they were sucking deposits away from bricks-and-mortar banks across Europe.
他们的策略及其成功，不久他们便从那些欧洲大行处抢得了很多存款。
This suggests that many voters believe they have a right to any windfall earned by their parents' bricks and mortar, whatever Mill said.
这表明很多选民相信：不管米尔怎么说，他们都有权拥有父母房产为他们带来的意外之财。
The Internet lends itself to specialty retailing because it allows companies to offer huge product portfolios without having to stock inventory in bricks-and-mortar shops.
因特网成了特色产品零售业的东风，是因为它能让公司无需实体店存储货物就能拥有巨量的经营品种。
Following the lead of many bricks-and-mortar outfits, eBay recently launched a pop-up in New York where customers could inspect items before ordering them from kiosks.
借鉴了实体店的这种方法，最近，易贝在纽约也建起了临时性商店，顾客们可以在那里切实了解商品，然后下订单。
Bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks, until the architect can make them something else.
在建筑师将其变成他物之前，砖泥依然是砖泥。
Consider the typical interaction between a sales agent and shopper in a bricks-and-mortar store. The shopper enters the store and starts looking around.
回想下在一个实体商店中店员和顾客之间典型的交互情景：顾客走进商店开始四处张望，这个时候，店员会问：“请问您需要什么？”
In recent months, the price of fruit and veg has troubled policymakers less than the price of bricks and mortar.
近几个月来，与蔬菜和水果价格相比，建筑类材料价格更让决策者头疼。
In the early days of the commercial Internet, it was often predicted that pure e-commerce sites would begin to struggle as bricks-and-mortar stores moved online.
在商业网站运行初期，人们就预测，当实体店也搬到网上经营时，纯电子商业网站将会抵挡不住。
Online harassment is just as bad as the bricks and mortar kind.
在线骚扰实际上和现实的骚扰一样坏。
Whether you sell at trade shows, own a bricks-and-mortar shop on the high street or sell goods online, it's invaluable to know where and when there is demand for your product.
无论是在展会、店铺还是线上出售商品，最重要的是知道哪里、何时会对你的产品发生需求。
“Bricks-and-mortar retailers are opening on Thanksgiving night to pre-empt people shopping online after their Thanksgiving dinner,” says Christopher Donnelly at Accenture, a consultancy.
“为了争取到那些在感恩节晚餐之后上线购物的人们，传统的实体零售商在感恩节晚上开业。”克里斯多夫多内利说，一位来自埃森哲咨询公司的顾问。
And in traditional bricks-and-mortar stores, the story is similar.
在传统的普通商店，情况也类似。
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。
Bricks and mortar 13 are mortar and bricks, until the architect can make them something else.
在建筑师将其变成他物之前，砖泥依然是砖泥。
A 30-foot section of the Great Wall, built from individual bricks of bittersweet chocolate held together with white chocolate "mortar," is only the start.
这里有一座长达三十英尺的长城片断，由大块苦味巧克力制成的砖块砌成，并用白色的巧克力“泥灰”粘合，而这只是个开始。
灰泥把砖粘合在一起。
Already we've seen Internet shopping become a competitor to bricks-and-mortar stores.
我们看到，网上购物与实体店铺已经形成竞争之势。
The edge for FreshDirect, says Braddock, is its extensive database where it can gather more information about shopping patterns and behavior than a traditional bricks-and-mortar grocery store can.
Braddock说FreshDirect的优势在于它拥有一个规模庞大的数据库，这个数据库汇集了大量关于购买方式和行为的信息，这正是传统实体店铺无法比拟的优势之一。
The edge for FreshDirect, says Braddock, is its extensive database where it can gather more information about shopping patterns and behavior than a traditional bricks-and-mortar grocery store can.
Braddock说FreshDirect的优势在于它拥有一个规模庞大的数据库，这个数据库汇集了大量关于购买方式和行为的信息，这正是传统实体店铺无法比拟的优势之一。
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