例句
同义词
词组
  • coals to Newcastle
    something brought or sent to a place where it is already plentiful 送往纽卡斯尔的煤,多余的举动
  • haul someone over the coals
    reprimand someone severely 痛斥某人
英语四级真题
  • It's commonly known that certain diseases are linked with occupations like lung disease in coal miners.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • Decades of working over coal fires in tight, closed spaces with little fresh airto ensure his dishes would not get col had fatally damaged his lungs.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • There are still some public lands that contain oil, coal and other natural resources.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • This is similar to what's happening in the coal and oil industries, a situation that fuels much of the current political discontent in this county.
    2018年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
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.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • The prices of coal are low as a result of over-supply and decreasing demand.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Natural gas and coal—also fossil fuels—have similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • 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.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • That’s energy in all forms--oil, gas, coal, nuclear, solar and even wind power.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • Dakota Gasification of North Dakota captures CO2 at a plant that converts coal into synthetic natural gas.
    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • 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
    出自-2012年6月阅读原文
  • Lending is the coal to our engine, so we want to make more loans.
    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • The treaty banning mining here, shielding coveted reserves of iron ore, coal and chromium, comes up for review in 2048.
    2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • 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
    2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
英汉词典释义
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;
    "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"
    2. supply with coal
    3. take in coal;
    "The big ship coaled"
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;