| 单词 | coal-burning |
| 释义 | > as lemmascoal-burning coal-burning adj. and n. ΚΠ 1789 Gentlemen's Mag. Feb. 109/1 In this coal-burning age, I can never hope that the Ironmongers Company will be grateful enough to honour me with my freedom. 1828 R. Roberts House Servant's Directory (ed. 2) 164 A judicious use of the poker..is the most delicate part of the science of coal burning. 1858 Harper's Mag. Mar. 442/2 Railroad companies are being driven into the adoption of coal-burning engines to save the consumption of wood. 1954 M. Sharp Gipsy in Parlour v. 62 The coal-burning London of my childhood was undoubtedly foggier than the London of to-day. 2002 Christian Sci. Monitor 24 Oct. 8/2 Credits would go to a government or a company that funded wind-energy ‘farms’ in places that had relied on coal-burning for electricity. 2012 Herald (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 3 Jan. South Africa was constructing two 500-megawatt coal-burning power stations to generate electricity. < as lemmas |
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