| 单词 | salt mine |
| 释义 | > as lemmassalt mine salt mine n. a mine yielding rock salt; also jocular (esp. in plural) with allusion to the practice of sentencing offenders to labour in a salt mine; spec. one's work or place of employment. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > other mines crystal mine1600 metal pita1603 salt mine1669 copper-grove1702 wad-mine1747 society > occupation and work > workplace > [noun] > one's shop1776 salt mine1963 1669 J. Glanvill Let. 17 Dec. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1969) VI. 373 Dr Jackson also writes mee yt he hath sent yu an Acct of ye salt mines. 1673 E. Browne Brief Acct. Trav. Hvngaria 112 Half an hours going from the City of Eperies in upper Hungary, there is a Salt-Mine of great note. 1811 Holland in Trans. Geol. Soc. 1 56 In countries where salt-mines occur, fragments of primitive rocks appear in great abundance over these beds. 1963 Times 13 May 3/1 Rhodes is back in favour after a year or two in the saltmines for throwing. 1966 L. Deighton Billion-dollar Brain xvii. 186 We finished our milk. ‘Back to the salt mines,’ said Harvey. 1975 B. Garfield Hopscotch xxvii. 281 I'd better get back to the salt mines. I've got a lot of unfinished jobs. 1977 Listener 10 Nov. 616/2 Harding was summoned by Sir John Reith and..sent off to the salt-mines of Manchester. < as lemmas |
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