mine
mine 英 [maɪn] 美 [maɪn]
n. 矿，矿藏； v. 开采，采掘； pron. 我的
进行时:mining 过去式:mined 过去分词:mined 第三人称单数:mines 名词复数:mines
- A mine is a hole in the earth from which workers take valuable things: coal, diamonds, copper. It is also a bomb that explodes when it's touched, often buried in the earth.
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- n. 矿，矿藏；
- v. 开采，采掘；
- pron. 我的
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1. That's mine.
这是我的。
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2. She wanted one like mine.
她想要一个和我的一样的。
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3. a gold mine, a diamond mine
金矿；钻石矿
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4. They were mining for gold.
他们在开采黄金。
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5. The area has been mined for slate for centuries.
这个地区开采板岩有数百年了。
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6. The coastal route had been mined.
沿海道路上布了地雷。
- mine (n.1) "pit or tunnel in the earth for obtaining metals and minerals," c. 1300, from Old French mine "vein, lode; tunnel, shaft; mineral ore; mine" (for coal, tin, etc,), of uncertain origin, probably from a Celtic source (compare Welsh mwyn, Irish mein "ore, mine"), from Old Celtic *meini-. Italy and Greece were relatively poor in minerals, thus they did not contribute a word for this to English, but there was extensive mining from an early date in Celtic lands (Cornwall, etc.). From c. 1400 as "a tunnel under fortifications to overthrow them."
- mine (n.2) explosive device, by 1850, from mine (v.2).
- mine (pron.) Old English min "mine, my," (pronoun and adjective), from Proto-Germanic *minaz (source also of Old Frisian, Old Saxon Old High German min, Middle Dutch, Dutch mijn, German mein, Old Norse minn, Gothic meins "my, mine"), from the base of me. Superseded as adjective beginning 13c. by my.
- mine (v.1) to dig, c. 1300, "to tunnel under fortifications to overthrow them," from mine (n.1) or from Old French miner "to dig, mine; exterminate." From mid-14c. as "to dig in the earth" (for treasure, etc.). Figurative use from mid-14c. Related: Mined; mining.
- mine (v.2) "lay explosives," 1620s, in reference to old tactic of tunneling under enemy fortifications to blow them up; a specialized sense of mine (v.1) via a sense of "dig under foundations to undermine them" (late 14c.), and miner in this sense is attested from late 13c. Related: Mined; mining.
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