名詞 brickbat:

1. a fragment of brick used as a weapon
2. blunt criticism

1. The Minister's speech was greeted with brickbats.
   部長(zhǎng)的演說(shuō)遭到了抨擊。

brick.bat

n.（名詞）
A piece, especially of brick, used as a weapon or missile.
碎磚：用作武器或投射物的碎塊，尤指磚塊
An unfavorable remark; criticism.
不利的評(píng)論；批評(píng)

來(lái)源：
brick
brick
bat [piece of brick]
bat[磚塊]

<注釋>The earliest sense ofbrickbat, recorded in a work first published in 5'3, was .a piece of brick.. Such pieces of brick have not infrequently been thrown at others in the hope of injuring them;hence, the figurativebrickbats (first recorded in 929) that critics hurl at performances they dislike. The appearance ofbat as the second part of this compound is explained by the fact that the word bat, .war club, cudgel,. developed in Middle English the sense .chunk, clod, wad,. and in the 'th century came to be used specifically for a piece of brick that was unbroken on one end.
brickbat 最早的意義記錄在5'3年首次出版的一部著作中，意為.一塊磚。. 這樣的磚塊常用來(lái)投擲他人，意在將人打傷；因此，含比喻意義的brickbats （929年第一次被記錄下來(lái)）指批評(píng)家抨擊他們厭惡的表演。 bat 一詞作為這一復(fù)合詞的第二部分出現(xiàn)可用下列事實(shí)來(lái)解釋，即意為.警棍，短棒.的 bat 一詞在中世紀(jì)英語(yǔ)中發(fā)展為.厚塊、泥塊、軟團(tuán).的意思， '世紀(jì)被用來(lái)特指一端沒(méi)有破損的磚塊