名词

1. 黏土;陶土
Clay is a kind of earth that is soft when it is wet and hard when it is dry. Clay is shaped and baked to make things such as pots and bricks.

2. 红土网球场;沙地网球场
In tennis, matches played on clay are played on courts whose surface is covered with finely crushed stones or brick.

3. （受人崇仰的人的）不为人知的严重缺点(或缺陷)
If you say that a person who is respected or admired has feet of clay or has clay feet, you mean that they have serious faults which you or other people did not know about before.

1. the dead body of a human being

e.g. the cadaver was intended for dissection
the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse
the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river
honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay

Synonym: cadavercorpsestiffremains

2. a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired

3. water soaked soil
soft wet earth

Synonym: mud