| 单词 | refinery worker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrefinery worker General attributive, as refinery furnace, refinery plant, refinery worker, etc. ΚΠ 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 712 One of the numerous refinery furnaces. 1888 Amer. Almanac 275 Occupations of the People of the United States... Oil, mill and refinery operatives. 1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xliii. 829 Slags obtained in the later stages of purification, namely roaster slag..and refinery slag. 1939 Thorpe's Dict. Appl. Chem. (ed. 4) III. 348/2 The largest refinery plant in this country is at Prescot, where copper is refined..from blister copper. 1959 Listener 2 Apr. 582/1 Refinery gases, oil, and now refrigerated methane. 1992 Harper's Mag. Apr. 68/3 Union refinery workers saw their wages rise from $6 an hour in 1974 to $17.40 today. 2006 New Yorker 12 June 56/2 In many areas the refinery business is more like an oligopoly than like a competitive market. < as lemmas |
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