brick
要点れんが
意味
- (1個の)れんが
- (材料としての)れんが
- (形が)れんがに似た物
- れんがの,れんが造りの
- 〈建築物〉を=れんがで囲う,れんがで作る,…にれんがを敷く《+in(on)+名》
例文
Bricks never take the place of ferro-concrete here.
ここでは決して、レンガは鉄筋コンクリートの代わりになりません。
Giving advice to him is like talking to a brick wall.
彼に忠告したところで、馬の耳に念仏だよ。
He won't listen. I might as well talk to a brick wall.
彼はどうしても聞こうとしない。レンガの壁に話しかけるようなものだ。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Late Middle English brik, bryke, bricke, from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch bricke ("cracked or broken brick; tile-stone"; modern Dutch brik), ultimately related to Proto-West Germanic *brekan (“to break”), whence also Old French briche and French brique (“brick”). Compare also German Low German Brickje (“small board, tray”). Related to break. The social media slang sense derives from memes about building up one's feed “brick by brick”, analogizing bricks with reels that inform the algorithm. The sense of a helpful, reliable person comes from Lycurgus referring to the army as the walls of Sparta, every man a brick.