| 单词 | mill |
| 释义 | mill (mɪl ) Word forms: mills , milling , milled 1. countable noun A mill is a building in which grain is crushed to make flour. 2. countable noun A mill is a small device used for grinding something such as coffee beans or pepper into powder. ...a pepper mill. Synonyms: grinder, crusher, quern 3. countable noun A mill is a factory used for making and processing materials such as steel, wool, or cotton. ...a steel mill. ...a textile mill. Synonyms: factory, works, shop, plant 4. verb To mill something such as wheat or pepper means to grind it in a mill. They mill 1000 tonnes of flour a day in every Australian state. [VERB noun] ...freshly milled black pepper. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: grind, pound, press, crush 5. See also milling, rolling mill, run-of-the-mill, watermill 6. grist to the mill phrase If you say that something is grist to the mill, you mean that it is useful for a particular purpose or helps support someone's point of view. Phrasal verbs: mill around regional note: in BRIT, also use mill about phrasal verb When a crowd of people mill around or mill about, they move around a place or area without any clear purpose. Quite a few people were milling about, but nothing was happening. [VERB PARTICLE] Dozens of people milled around Charing Cross Road and Denmark Street. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Idioms: grist for the mill or grist to the mill something that can be put to good use in a particular situation You are, of course, much better at writing songs when you are completely miserable – it gives you so much more grist for the mill. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers go through the mill to experience a very difficult situation He's been through the mill this last year with his father passing away. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: corn mill He quit his job at a corn mill six years ago to make a living out of photographing storms. The Sun Nearby was a corn mill and a fulling mill. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The mill has at various times been a fulling mill and a corn mill. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The village features an early 17th-century corn mill which has been restored. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There was some speculation that the corn mill had been moved to the new extension and a forge built on the ground floor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But when a mill town has a star in its firmament residents are entitled to regard that celebrity as theirs. Times, Sunday Times This, though, was a crime whose ramifications would stretch far beyond the boundaries of the former mill town. Times, Sunday Times Small industry grew within the town, with the town being considered more of a mill town by 1840. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By 1908, a mill town of 20 houses, a store, post office, hospital, office block, barber shop, and pool hall had grown around the mill. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The town began life as a cotton mill town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We stayed with my grandparents in an old mill near a river, wrapped in fruit trees and vines. Times, Sunday Times The garden has also been recolonised by plants whose seeds had remained dormant beneath old mill buildings. Times, Sunday Times There was also an old mill down the lane. Times, Sunday Times They turned an old mill into a five-bedroom house that must now be worth 850,000. Times, Sunday Times On a whim he wrote to a friend asking him to look out for a water meadow, preferably with an old mill on it, and the friend obliged. Times, Sunday Times A sufficient head of water to power the mill was created by a weir system and a millpond. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Soon afterwards, a steam system was installed to power the mill. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Development in the surrounding area had reduced the ability of the wind to power the mill. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A dam was built in 1863 to power a mill, but this flooded some of the springs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This pulp, called bagasse, fuels the mills boilers, creating steam-generated electricity to power the mill. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During the next years, a large ore processing mill, adjoining buildings and infrastructure were constructed at the area. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The remains include the mine workings; the tin processing mill; and the associated domestic and industrial remains. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was involved in the start-up and operations of his family's barley and oat processing mill. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The main industry also includes rice processing mills. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These units mostly consist of rice mills, saw, oil, dhall and other grain mills, seed and other processing mills. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Traditional markets such as pit props, then motorway fencing, disappeared long ago, and more recently the last pulp mill using this material closed. Times, Sunday Times Construction of a pulp mill began in 1947 and was operating by 1951. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The main uses of the wood produced are elemental chlorine free pulp mill production (for cellulose and paper), sawlogs, plywood and bioenergy (thermoelectric generation). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The largest of its endeavors, a pulp mill, was bought by them in 1913 but which had been in existence since 1790. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The company's pulp mill opened in the cove in 1954. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The vast majority of puppy mill animals are sold to pet stores by dealers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sometimes the puppy mill owners will have a contact person who collaborates with rescues. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their popularity has led to 'merciless back-street breeders and puppy mills'. Times, Sunday Times Recognizing the high demand for purebred animals, some people choose to engage in backyard breeding or operate puppy mills. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Kitten mills are not as widely known as puppy mills, but they still do exist. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was the site of the first tide-operated rice mill constructed in the state (c. 1792). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A rice mill was built and a post office opened. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It has an electrical substation and a rice mill on the outskirts. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The village also houses a small modern rice mill creating direct and indirect employment to a few villagers apart from agriculture. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This building was constructed in 1861 to replace a rice mill that had burned the previous year. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There for a decade, he worked successively as a taxi driver, fruit picker and in a saw mill. Times, Sunday Times The saw mill was still in working order when the estate was sold in 1938. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1857 the town consisted of a saw mill, a blacksmith shop, a carpenter shop, one store, and eight dwellings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Farmland was rented, a saw mill and flour mill opened, workshops established, and schools and a theater founded. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The 1906 earthquake resulted in a fire that threatened the saw mill and the city. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When the mill shut in 1986, the village waned. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When the mill shut down in 1985, the railroad ended operations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1995, the mill shut down after 142 years, making it the longest operating sawmill in the country. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Production slowed in the 1940s and 1950s, and in 1966, the mine and mill shut down. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet, like the steel furnaces and coalmines, the mills shut down as overseas rivals and synthetic materials took over. Times, Sunday Times It became a private property and changed into a block of flats (some are still inhabited) and a spinning mill. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He also operated a spinning mill and was involved in the export of hay. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Then, a spinning mill and a tannery appeared in the settlement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A spinning mill was established around this time and even back then, the textile industry employed over 300 people. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The opening of a spinning mill in 1854, which became two years later a tobacco factory, gradually changed, the socio-economic structure of the municipality. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 On a mazy walk through the property, you'll find two dark-sand beaches and the remains of an 18th-century sugar mill. Times, Sunday Times Between 1872 and 1900, the company gradually took over more land and sugar mill operations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A two-story mansion and a chapel remain standing on the sugar mill grounds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This sugar mill was started on cooperative base which help to provided stability and growth for farmers in the region. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The founding of the sugar mill produced a population boom in 1903. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He spent the next seven years working in a local textile mill. Times, Sunday Times Salts textile mill began operation two years later and its brick tower still overlooks the village. Times, Sunday Times He attended school until he was 11 years old, and then became employed in a textile mill, where he was later promoted to machinist. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was also the first successful textile mill in the area. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1975, during the recovery and adaptation works of the building, archaeological remains of the old textile mill were discovered. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A village was in shock last night as rescuers continued to hunt for four people following a massive blast which caused a wood mill to collapse. Times, Sunday Times The island had a school, two churches, cemeteries, and a wood mill. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, at one time a thriving economy was also based on a local wood mill. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The yard between the two wood mill buildings was walled-off and roofed to form a new workshop to house the block-making machines. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A member of staff from one of the firm's wood mills scooped the reward for unwavering support of his colleagues in a difficult period of change. Times, Sunday Times He left school at 14 and started sweeping up in a woollen mill. Times, Sunday Times Here, family homes go for £400,000 or more, while two-bedroom flats - perhaps in a converted woollen mill - fetch about £200,000. Times,Sunday Times During the 1820s, he built a gristmill, sawmill, shingle factory and woollen mill. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In following years a grist mill (1806) and woollen mill (1808) were added and a small community grew up around them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After 1848 the building was converted to a woollen mill and was rebuilt in 1864. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 磨坊, 碾磨 Japanese: 製粉所, 製粉する |
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