Adobe is a building material: earth, often mixed with straw, shaped into bricks and dried in the sun — not baked in a hot oven. Houses of adobe are common in dry, hot places, such as the American Southwest and parts of Latin America, because thick earth walls stay cool in the day and hold heat at night.

Adobe is a building material:Adobe是一種建材：earth, often mixed with straw,泥土，常常混合稻草，shaped into bricks and dried in the sun做成磚塊，放在太陽底下曬乾——— not baked in a hot oven.不是放進窯裡烤的。Houses of adobe are common in dry, hot places,用adobe蓋的房子在乾燥炎熱的地方很常見，such as the American Southwest and parts of Latin America,像美國西南部和拉丁美洲部分地區，because thick earth walls stay cool in the day and hold heat at night.因為厚厚的土牆白天保持涼爽、晚上又能留住熱氣。

People also say an adobe house or adobe bricks. It is an ordinary noun for the material, not a fancy or technical word in those places.

People also say an adobe house or adobe bricks.大家也會說an adobe house土磚屋或adobe bricks土磚。It is an ordinary noun for the material,這只是個描述材質的普通名詞，not a fancy or technical word in those places.在那些地方不是什麼花俏或專業的詞。

The word came into English from Spanish, and before that from Arabic, and before that from older Egyptian words for ‘brick.’ Though actually, many students in Taiwan meet Adobe first as the software company. That is the same spelling and a different story; this entry is the earth brick.

The word came into English from Spanish,這個字是從西班牙文傳進英文的，and before that from Arabic,再往前是阿拉伯文，and before that from older Egyptian words for 'brick.'再更早則來自古埃及文裡指「磚塊」的字。Though actually, many students in Taiwan meet Adobe first as the software company.不過其實，很多台灣學生第一次認識Adobe，是先認識那間軟體公司。That is the same spelling and a different story;拼法一樣，但是完全不同的故事；this entry is the earth brick.這篇講的是土磚。