Mining

(noun.) the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth.

(noun.) laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment.

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• As I had had some previous experience with the statements of mining men, I concluded I would just send down a small plant and prospect the field before putting up a large one. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In mining there are stamp mills, ore crushers, separators, concentrators, and amalgamators. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The first railroads to be built were principally branches of the Liverpool and Manchester one, and chiefly located in the mining and manufacturing county of Lancaster. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The profits of mining would for some time be very great, and much above their natural rate. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I shall also do a little in the mining way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He found a considerable quantity in the sluice-boxes of the Cherokee Valley Mining Company; but just then he found also that fruit-gardening was the thing, and dropped the subject. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This ore could be excavated very cheaply by means of improved mining facilities, and transported at low cost to lake ports. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Perhaps quarrying would be a better term than mining in this case, as Edison's plan was to approach the rock and tear it down bodily. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The sense of talk, buzzing, jarring, half-secret, the endless mining and political wrangling, vibrated in the air like discordant machinery. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• For the encouragement of the mining trade, the 5th of William and Mary, chap. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He kept in mind the practical purposes of mining, and soon people flocked to Freiberg to hear him from all the quarters o f Europe. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• At Newcastle, the centre of the mining country, a dinner was given in his honor, and a service of plate, worth over twelve thousand dollars, was presented to him. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Powell, who was a mining engineer by education, stated that we had uncovered over a million dollars worth of ore in a trifle over three months. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• I walked down to the valley, in order to get my messmates to go on with that mining work in the pass; but I felt a bit headachy and queer. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• He was born in Saxony and came of a family which had engaged for three hundred years in mining and metal working. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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