| 单词 | furnace |
| 释义 | furnace (fɜːʳnɪs ) Word forms: furnaces 1. countable noun A furnace is a container or enclosed space in which a very hot fire is made, for example to melt metal, burn rubbish, or produce steam. 2. singular noun If you say that a place is a furnace, you mean that it is very hot there. [informal, emphasis] How can we walk? It's a furnace out there. Collocations: furnace heat The forest wound on with no respite from the furnace heat and gradient. Times, Sunday Times This was a momentous and passionate final, played in furnace heat and with the rigours of an improbably long season kept at bay. Times, Sunday Times The night soil was then dried in revolving cylinders, using furnace heat from other borough refuse, before being transferred to so-called drying plates. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Wood-fired furnaces heat radiators and water. Times, Sunday Times Then the seats were heated so hot that sparks flew from them as from a furnace heated to the utmost. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The liquid metal was fed into a steel furnace, where the iron's carbon content was reduced and impurities removed, producing raw steel. Times, Sunday Times Inevitably, most ends up in the concrete crusher or the steel furnace, leaving very little for the renovation trade or even the landfill site. Globe and Mail The plant itself dominated the first 3 levels of the building with its massive steel furnace and generator blocks (steel structures lined with firebrick on the interior). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet, like the steel furnaces and coalmines, the mills shut down as overseas rivals and synthetic materials took over. Times, Sunday Times We're not paying for big steel furnaces or car manufacturing facilities. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 熔炉 Japanese: かまど |
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