- 1nA2/kleɪ/黏土
A type of heavy, sticky earth that becomes soft when wet and hard when baked, used to make pots, bricks, and models.
示範例句 · Example
In art class, Mei shaped a little bowl out of soft clay.
逐字在美術課，美用軟軟的黏土捏出一個小碗。
「clay」是一種又重又黏的泥土，濕的時候軟軟的可以捏，烤過或乾了之後就變硬。做陶罐、磚頭、美術課捏的小模型用的都是它。跟一般的泥巴（mud）不同，clay 比較細、比較黏，是可以塑形的材料。
常見搭配
heavy/clay soil
黏土地、含大量黏土的土壤
soil that contains a lot of clay and holds water
Carrots grow badly in heavy clay soil.
a lump of clay
一團黏土
a small solid piece of clay
She started with a lump of clay and made a cup.
clay pot
陶罐、黏土做的罐子
a pot made from baked clay
They cooked the soup in an old clay pot.
clay court
紅土球場
a tennis court with a surface made of crushed clay
The tennis match was played on a red clay court.
core核心畫面
Picture a lump of heavy, wet earth in your hands: it is sticky, it holds every , and it will stay in whatever shape you push it into. Put it in a hot oven and that soft shape turns rock-hard for good. Soft enough to take a shape, then hard enough to keep it — that is the whole word.
原始詞典資料25 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Clayname/kleɪ/
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A surname originating as an occupation.
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
- When he was about five years old some kids asked Clay why his mother had called him that. And he did not know. But began to wonder.
- The lone "nay" came from the Republican lawmaker from Louisiana, Clay Higgins, who defied his party saying his vote was a principled "NO".
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A diminutive of the male given name Clayton.
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claynoun/kleɪ/
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A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
- Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]
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An earth material with ductile qualities.
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hobbieslifestylesportsA tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
- The French Open is played on clay.
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biblicallifestylereligionThe material of the human body.
- From clay we are made.
- Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay.
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesA particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
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A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
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informalengineeringfirearmsgovernmentA clay pigeon.
- We went shooting clays at the weekend.
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Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims.
- Vilnius is rightful Polish clay.
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A moth (Mythimna ferrago).
clayverb/kleɪ/
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To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
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To purify using clay.
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies, They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.
- The Portuguese had mastered the technique of claying sugar, and other European nations tried to learn the secrets from them.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- Clay County
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