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。

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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？

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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。

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The vessels were going to be so heavy that one critic suggested they would be more like bricks than boats.

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Such is the intent, under the guise of convenience, of such foods as Ore Ida's blue French fries, Eastern Foods' purple pizzas, and ConAgra's Kid Cuisine, which features TV dinners like the Sandwich Builder a hamburger meal with a patty shaped like a house and cookies that look like bricks.

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They wouldn't recognize good news if it dropped like gold bricks into their laps.

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