Colliery
['kɒlɪərɪ] or ['kɑlɪəri]
解释:
(noun.) a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it.
整理:梅--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it.
(n.) The coal trade.
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同义词及近义词:
n. Coal-mine, coal-pit.
编辑:梅布尔
例句:
- A colliery, remarks Uncle, with a twinkle of the eye. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- After he had worked for three years at Willington he was induced to take the position of brakesman of the engine at the West Moor Colliery at Killingworth. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Among them was the owner of a colliery in the north named Blackett, who built a number of engines for propelling coal-cars and used them at his mines. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The coal had to be hauled from the pit of the colliery to the shipping place. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Stephenson was now very well regarded at the colliery for the improvements he had made there. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Stephenson had letters to Mr. Pease, and after a talk with him, persuaded him to go to the Killingworth Colliery and see his locomotives. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The second locomotive was proving so efficient at the Killingworth Colliery that friends of the inventor urged him to look into the possible use of steam in traveling on the common roads. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The boy was employed at the colliery, and was rapidly learning the business under the skilful charge of his father. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- The engines that Mr. Blackett had built, using Trevethick’s model as a basis, were working daily near the Killingworth Colliery, and Stephenson frequently went over to see them. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- For some time it was used daily at the colliery. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- He looked at Beldover, at Selby, at Whatmore, at Lethley Bank, the great colliery villages which depended entirely on his mines. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- I can imagine it--I am Mrs Colliery-Manager Crich--I am Mrs Member-of-Parliament Roddice. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- There they found the gate shut, because the colliery train was rumbling nearer. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- He hated remorselessly the circumstances of his own life, so much that he never really saw Beldover and the colliery valley. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- A bold attempt was made at Birmingham, in 1826, to bring gas from the collieries, at a distance of ten miles from the town. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- It took into account the collieries, mines, canals, marshes, fens, and the varieties of soil in relation to the substrata. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- In forming the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the guage of the railways in the collieries was adopted, and the width between the rails was made 4 feet 8? inches. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- George Stephenson had worked out a somewhat similar safety-lamp at about the same time, and his was used in the collieries around Newcastle. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
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