Colliery
['kɒlɪərɪ] or ['kɑlɪəri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it.
整理:梅--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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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同義詞及近義詞:
n. Coal-mine, coal-pit.
編輯:梅布尔
例句/造句/用法:
- A colliery, remarks Uncle, with a twinkle of the eye. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The coal had to be hauled from the pit of the colliery to the shipping place. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Stephenson was now very well regarded at the colliery for the improvements he had made there. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Stephenson had letters to Mr. Pease, and after a talk with him, persuaded him to go to the Killingworth Colliery and see his locomotives. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The boy was employed at the colliery, and was rapidly learning the business under the skilful charge of his father. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- For some time it was used daily at the colliery. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- He looked at Beldover, at Selby, at Whatmore, at Lethley Bank, the great colliery villages which depended entirely on his mines. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I can imagine it--I am Mrs Colliery-Manager Crich--I am Mrs Member-of-Parliament Roddice. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- There they found the gate shut, because the colliery train was rumbling nearer. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He hated remorselessly the circumstances of his own life, so much that he never really saw Beldover and the colliery valley. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Gudrun, new from her life in Chelsea and Sussex, shrank cruelly from this amorphous ugliness of a small colliery town in the Midlands. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- It took into account the collieries, mines, canals, marshes, fens, and the varieties of soil in relation to the substrata. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- 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·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- George Stephenson had worked out a somewhat similar safety-lamp at about the same time, and his was used in the collieries around Newcastle. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
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