| 词组 | wall |
| 释义 | wall [walled, walled, walling] wall in 1. wall in sth • wall sth in to surround an area with a wall: ▪ Part of the garden had been walled in, to make a sheltered spot for growing tender plants. 2. wall in sth/sb • wall sth/sb in to surround an area or person: ▪ The grey tower blocks walled in the space completely. ▪ The shopkeeper sat behind his counter, walled in by racks of cheap watches, pens, and cassettes. 3. wall yourself in if you wall yourself in, you put yourself in a position where you are no longer free to change what you are doing: ▪ The bureaucrats were prisoners of their own system. They had walled themselves in. wall off 1. wall off sth • wall sth off usually passive to build a wall around or in front of something to separate it from the surrounding area: ▪ The garden was walled off to protect it from the wind. ▪ Several of the caves have been walled off with rocks or bits of old timber. 2. wall off sb/sth • wall sb/sth off usually passive to keep someone or something completely separate from other people, things, countries etc: ▪ It had clearly been Dad's intention to wall off his past entirely. + from ▪ Burma was effectively walled off from the rest of the outside world. ▪ The drug works by walling off the bacteria from the other cells, so that they cannot affect the rest of the body wall up 1. wall up sth • wall sth up usually passive to fill an entrance, window etc with bricks, stone etc so that it is completely blocked: ▪ The only doorway had been walled up long ago. ▪ Two of the windows were walled up, and there was very little natural light. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑brick up/in 2. wall up sb • wall sb up usually passive to completely enclose someone in a small space by building a wall to block the entrance, so that they cannot escape and will certainly die: ▪ the ghost of an unfortunate woman who was walled up in a small room and left to starve to death ▪ When the house was demolished, two complete skeletons were found walled up in the basement. |
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