n.[U]

1. 黏土；泥土
   We make bricks from clay.

   我們用泥土製磚。

2. （上帝造人的）泥土；（人的）軀體，肉體

n.

1. a stiff, sticky fine-grained impermeable earth that can be moulded when wet and baked to make bricks and pottery.
2. literary the substance of the human body:
   this lifeless clay.