| 单词 | raw material |
| 释义 | > as lemmasraw material raw material n. (frequently in plural) the basic material from which a product is manufactured or made; unprocessed material; frequently in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > [noun] raw material1612 crudity1626 raw produce1832 stock1873 1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica xv. 107 A furnace..for boyling, nealing, and backing of all kinde of Rawe-materials or Rawe-matters. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. Pref. 8 The raw materials, or necessary instruments of all manufactures. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 417 The raw material out of which a good army may be formed existed in great abundance among the Irish. 1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 2 Without a considerable knowledge of raw materials, and of their adaptations, we could not live. 1930 R. Campbell Poems 12 Taking as raw material for his lays The good old English beer he loves to praise. 1971 I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth i. 26/2 The processes of erosion, which provide the raw materials of the sedimentary rocks. 2005 J. Diamond Collapse (2006) xii. 370 China's expanding manufacturing economy and industries accept garbage/scrap that could serve as cheap sources of recoverable raw materials. < as lemmas |
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