Before leaving, he asked if I would give him the brick.

在离开之前，他问我是否愿意把砖头给他。

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I'll give you one pound an hour, if you will carry a brick under your arm and walk around the square for five hours without stopping.

如果你能在胳膊下夹着一块砖头，在广场上不停地走五个小时，我给你每小时一英镑。

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Under the microscope, the stuff they're after looks like a clean, structurally sound brick wall. If the wall looks ratty or crumbly, it's no good.

在显微镜之下，原本看起来很干净的表面其实像砖墙一样凹凸不平，如果这堵墙看起来破烂不堪或疏松易碎，就说明珍珠层没有用。

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If they hit a brick wall they kick and they chase it very well.

BBC: Jeremy Guscott column

The church in Act I consists mainly of featureless gray brick walls, as if a gut renovation were under way.

NEWYORKER: Fiasco

The buildings are made from thousands of tiny gears and springs, not brick and stone, as if Wall emptied a clock and began to build.

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