n.[U]

1. 粘土；泥土
   We make bricks from clay.

   我们用泥土制砖。

2. （上帝造人的）泥土；（人的）躯体，肉体

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.