adobe
adobe — 名詞
1. a building material made by mixing clay, earth, and straw, then shaping the mixt
土坯
用黏土與稻草混合、日曬製成的建築用磚
a building material made by mixing clay, earth, and straw, then shaping the mixture into bricks that are left to harden in the sun rather than being baked in a kiln.
The old mission church had thick adobe walls that stayed cool in the summer heat.
這座古老的傳教教堂有厚厚的土坯牆，在夏季高溫下仍能保持涼爽。
adobe + wall: noun-as-attribute pattern
Many traditional homes in the southwestern United States are built of adobe.
美國西南部許多傳統房屋都是用土坯建造的。
passive: be built of adobe
Diego watched workers mix straw into wet clay to form adobe bricks by hand.
Diego 看著工人將稻草拌入濕黏土中，用手塑形製作土坯磚。
After two weeks in the desert sun, the adobe bricks were dry enough to stack.
在沙漠的烈日下曝曬兩週後，這些土坯磚已乾到可以堆疊使用。
The museum exhibit showed how ancient communities made adobe from local mud and plant fibres.
博物館的展覽展示了古代聚落如何利用當地的泥土與植物纖維製作土坯。
- mudbrick
more general term; can refer to any brick made from mud, whether sun-dried or not
- sun-dried brick
descriptive phrase that makes the drying method explicit
- earthen brick
emphasises the natural earth content of the material
- fired brick
brick hardened in a kiln at high temperature rather than by the sun
- kiln-dried brick
emphasises the industrial drying method
文法句型
adobe + noun (brick/wall/house)
made of adobe
用法筆記
Adobe is an uncountable noun when referring to the material itself, but it also commonly appears attributively before nouns that describe things made from it (e.g. adobe house, adobe wall).