砌好的那一片磚
這一族就是核心畫面本身:退後一步,磚面成為一個整體。
noun · B2
The bricks in a wall or a building, thought of as one whole surface — the bricks together with the lines of cement between them.
磚砌的部分;磚牆面
One way to hold brickwork: stand back from a wall until the single bricks stop being separate things and become one surface. That surface is the brickwork. Step closer to the person with the trowel, and the same word names what they are doing to make it.
From brick + -work. English uses -work to gather many small pieces into one thing you can talk about (stonework, woodwork, ironwork), and also to name the doing of it.
由 brick(磚)加上字尾 -work 組成。英文的 -work 有兩個作用:把很多零散材料收成一個整體(像 stonework、woodwork、ironwork),也可以指「做這件事」。這正好對上 brickwork 的兩個意思。
Wiktionary entry for brickwork, supplied in this packet: 'From brick + -work.'
Two branches
砌好的那一片磚
這一族就是核心畫面本身:退後一步,磚面成為一個整體。
noun · B2
The bricks in a wall or a building, thought of as one whole surface — the bricks together with the lines of cement between them.
磚砌的部分;磚牆面
砌磚這件事
把鏡頭從成品移到動作上:-work 的另一個方向指的是「做這件事」,於是同一個字變成一門手藝的名字。
noun · B2
The job and the skill of building things with bricks: laying them in rows, spreading the cement, and keeping the lines straight.
砌磚(這項工作、技術)