coal

英[kəʊl]美[koʊl]

n.煤（块）；

复数：coals;

例句

The fire will keep in if you add coal into it from time to time.不时添点煤, 火就不会熄。

Every tonne of coal contains,on average,30 kilograms of nitrogen.每吨煤平均含30公斤氮。

There is plenty of coal in this area.这个地区有丰富的煤。

The coal industry is running down.煤矿业正在逐渐走下坡路。

The coal miners have come out for about two weeks.煤矿工人已罢工约两周了。

The black stove, stoked with coal and firewood, glows like a lighted pumpkin.黑色烤炉里塞了炭和柴火，燃烧得像一个发光的南瓜。

Stocks of coal are running low.储备的煤越来越少了。

We used 10 tons of coal last winter.去年冬天我们用了10吨煤。

They are mining for coal.他们在开采煤矿。

dross coal渣煤, 不粘(结性)煤

英语六级真题

Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.

The prices of coal are low as a result of over-supply and decreasing demand.

Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.

Natural gas and coal—also fossil fuels—have similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived.

Coal prices also are low, owing to over-supply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China, which burns half of the world's coal.

Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.

The treaty banning mining here, shielding 116 coveted ( ' , 令人垂涎的) reserves of iron ore, coal and chromium, comes up for review in 2048.

Whether it is a transition from imported to domestic oil or from coal-powered electricity production to natural-gas power plants, politicians love to talk big.

When you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline-powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light, understanding energy system inertia and momentum can help you decide whether their plans are feasible.

Some coal power plants in the United States have operated for more than 70 years! The oldest continuously operated commercial hydro-electric plant in the United States is on New York's Hudson River, and it went into commercial service in 1898.

It is one thing to say that we are going to shift 30 percent of our electricity supply from, say, coal to nuclear power in 20 years.

That’s energy in all forms--oil, gas, coal, nuclear, solar and even wind power.

Dakota Gasification of North Dakota captures CO2 at a plant that converts coal into synthetic natural gas.

Some propose storing the CO2 in coal mines or liquid storage in the ocean, Shell favors storing CO2 in deep geological structures such as saline(盐的) formations and exhausted oil and gas fields that exist throughout the world

Lending is the coal to our engine, so we want to make more loans.

The treaty banning mining here, shielding coveted reserves of iron ore, coal and chromium, comes up for review in 2048.

When you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline -powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-UNCOUNT

煤

Coal is a hard black substance that is extracted from the ground and burned as fuel.

例句

N-PLURAL

(燃烧着的)煤块

Coals are burning pieces of coal.

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PHRASE

申斥;严厉责备

If a person in authority hauls or drags someone over the coals, they speak to them severely about something foolish or wrong that they have done.

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PHRASE

多此一举;徒劳无功

If someone is taking coals to Newcastle, they are trying to give or sell someone something that they already have a lot of.

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英汉词典释义

n.

煤炭

煤块

英英词典释义

Noun

1. fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

2. a hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire

Verb

1. burn to charcoal;

2. supply with coal

3. take in coal;

行业词典

地质学： 煤；

煤炭： 煤［炭］；古代植物遗体经成煤作用后转变成的固体可燃矿产。；

电力： 水煤浆；coal-water slurry, CWS；油煤浆；coal-oil mixture, COM；