strip mine

常見例句

Instead, at 10:06 a.m., the plane smashed into a reclaimed section of an old coal strip mine.
而這架飛機(jī)最終於10:06墜燬在一個重新啓用的舊煤鑛上。
Hawking's main concern was that a fleet of alien spacecraft could turn up wanting to strip mine the Earth for its bountiful resources.
霍金的主要憂慮是一隊外星人飛船艦隊可能會突然出現(xiàn)，想要將地球上儲量豐富的鑛藏洗劫一空。
Nearby, connected by a broad gravel road, is a gaping wound in the earth, a strip mine where metal ores for construction are extracted.
和它被一條石路連在一起的是一條巨大裂縫傷痕。在這個人造的條形峽穀裡金屬鑛不斷地被挖出用來建造基地建築。

And developers,logging companies, and strip-mine operators on the edge of the swamp can easily upset the delicate balance of nature in the area.

At the enormous oil sand strip mine, shovel cranes drop 100-ton loads of sand into 400-ton dump trucks.
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