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adobe

/uh-doh-bee/US // əˈdoʊ bi //UK // (əˈdəʊbɪ) //

土坯,土坯房,土坯布,土布

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : sun-dried brick made of clay and straw, in common use in countries having little rainfall.
    • : a yellow silt or clay, deposited by rivers, used to make bricks.
    • : a building constructed of adobe.
    • : a dark, heavy soil, containing clay.

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Examples

  • In the high desert of northern New Mexico, this adobe property in the village of Abiquiú boasts sweeping vistas of the Chama Valley.

  • Bin Laden stood in an adobe walled bedroom, his back to the door.

  • Representatives for Adobe did not respond to requests to comment.

  • And how much are we supposed to trust a single company—Adobe—that has so much control over our creative class?

  • Adobe claims that their cloud apps will work offline as well.

  • Other non-design services, like Adobe Business Catalyst, which hosts email fundraising campaigns and e-commerce, also went down.

  • He saw nothing of the red car, and presently the square walls and flat roof of an adobe house broke on his vision.

  • There was an adobe house on the flat, a corral, and other evidences of a rather extensive ranch.

  • The little adobe at the desert well leaped at them and fell away behind with the swiftness of thought.

  • Gila Bend had exasperated him because it was not the town it called itself, but a huddle of adobe huts.

  • The ceilings of all the rooms were supported by unhewn beams, five or six inches thick, deeply inserted into the adobe walls.