| 单词 | miner |
| 释义 | miner (once / 386 pages) n Picture a hardhat, a headlamp and a pick, and you are on the right track. A miner is a person who makes a living digging coal, salt, gold, minerals, or other natural resources out of the earth. The root here is the noun mine—not the word that possessive toddlers like to shout, but the one that describes a man-made underground network of tunnels and quarries. Don’t confuse miner with minor (note the “o”). Minor refers to musical intervals, small or trivial things, and people under age 18. WORD FAMILYminer: miners+/countermine: countermined, countermines, countermining/mine: countermine, mined, miner, mines, mining/mined: unmined/mining: minings USAGE EXAMPLESThe miners are banking on a boost in infrastructure spending, which they believe would offset the price declines caused by slowing growth in housing. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Steady demand for kitty litter helped Wyo-Ben and other bentonite miners through the downturn. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) Other deaths this year included wall collapses and a miner who crashed in a personal vehicle on an access road. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) n laborer who works in a mine Syn|Hypo|Hyper mineworker coal miner, collier, pitman someone who works in a coal mine gold digger, gold miner, gold pannera miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field placer minera miner who extracts minerals from a placer by washing or dredging prospectorsomeone who explores an area for mineral deposits strip minera miner who does strip mining forty-ninera miner who took part in the California gold rush in 1849 sourdougha settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborer someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor |
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