英语词汇“to pick the eyes out”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(a) In plural. Mining. A reserve of ore left in a mine to be worked at a later date (as when other ore is becoming scarce or inaccessible). Chiefly in to pick the eyes out and variants: to remove such a reserve; (also) to remove all the extractable ore during the initial working, leaving no reserve; to remove ore that is most easily extracted or of the highest quality.

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1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall 561 The ores thus left in various places are often termed the eyes of the mine; and when it may be necessary, in abandoning the mine,..to remove them, it is termed, picking out the eyes of the mine.

1854 Mining Mag. 3 254 In the latter stage of the old workings little more appears to have been done than picking the eyes out of the mine.

1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 148 By thus picking out the eyes, and sending them to market, a fictitious value is sometimes imparted to shares.

1870 Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engin. Mag. Mar. 290/1 We ‘pick out the eyes of our mines’, to use a Cornish expression, at the close of every shipping season.

1939 Jrnl. Land & Public Utility Econ. 15 26/1 A prospector who finds a small deposit will develop and exploit it as rapidly as possible to obtain a grubstake... He appears to give the most frequent example of..what the American engineers more expressively term ‘gutting’ or ‘picking the eyes out’ of a deposit.

1997 Afr. Econ. Hist. No. 25. 152 By granting long term concessions to large companies, the mining policy of the Congo ensured that the deposits would not be wasted by the short term practice of high-grading or ‘picking the eyes of the mine’.

单词	to pick the eyes out
释义	> as lemmas to pick the eyes out (a) In plural. Mining. A reserve of ore left in a mine to be worked at a later date (as when other ore is becoming scarce or inaccessible). Chiefly in to pick the eyes out and variants: to remove such a reserve; (also) to remove all the extractable ore during the initial working, leaving no reserve; to remove ore that is most easily extracted or of the highest quality. ΚΠ 1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall 561 The ores thus left in various places are often termed the eyes of the mine; and when it may be necessary, in abandoning the mine,..to remove them, it is termed, picking out the eyes of the mine. 1854 Mining Mag. 3 254 In the latter stage of the old workings little more appears to have been done than picking the eyes out of the mine. 1855 J. R. Leifchild Cornwall: Mines & Miners 148 By thus picking out the eyes, and sending them to market, a fictitious value is sometimes imparted to shares. 1870 Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engin. Mag. Mar. 290/1 We ‘pick out the eyes of our mines’, to use a Cornish expression, at the close of every shipping season. 1939 Jrnl. Land & Public Utility Econ. 15 26/1 A prospector who finds a small deposit will develop and exploit it as rapidly as possible to obtain a grubstake... He appears to give the most frequent example of..what the American engineers more expressively term ‘gutting’ or ‘picking the eyes out’ of a deposit. 1997 Afr. Econ. Hist. No. 25. 152 By granting long term concessions to large companies, the mining policy of the Congo ensured that the deposits would not be wasted by the short term practice of high-grading or ‘picking the eyes of the mine’. extracted from eyen.¹ < as lemmas
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