英语释义

1. any of various opaque, fusible, ductile, and typically lustrous substances that are good conductors of electricity and heat, form cations by loss of electrons, and yield basic oxides and hydroxides especially one that is a chemical element as distinguished from an alloy

2. mettle sense 1a

3. the substance out of which a person or thing is made

4. glass in its molten state

5. printing type metal

6. matter set in metal type

7. road metal

8. heavy metal sense 2

9. to cover or furnish with metal

10. a substance (such as gold, tin, or copper) that usually has a shiny appearance, is a good conductor of electricity and heat, can be melted, and is usually capable of being shaped

11. a substance (as gold, tin, copper, or bronze) that has a more or less shiny appearance, is a good conductor of electricity and heat, and usually can be made into a wire or hammered into a thin sheet

12. mettle

片语

Metals Production冶金钢铁生产

nonferrous metals有色金属；非铁金属

Sumitomo Metals住友金属

Metals Recycling废旧金属回收

Ferrous Metals黑色金属，铁类金属

platinum metals铂类金属；[化学] 铂系金属

refractory metals[材] 难熔金属

technology of metals金属工艺学

melt metals熔炼金属

Commercial Metals商业金属公司

英汉例句

• and of course, at the center of this is china. the country has an insatiable appetite for commodities, especially industrial metals and energy.

  当然，中国是这一增长的中心，它对大宗商品，特别是工业用金属和能源，有着永不满足的胃口。

• in addition to covering the outside of the silk, some of the metals seeped into the material, incorporating into the structure of the fiber.

  这些金属原子除了会覆盖丝的表面，更会渗入到丝纤维结构的内部，成为丝的一部分。

• engineers like ceramics because they can be heated without melting. unlike metals and plastics, though, they are brittle.

  工程师喜欢陶瓷材料，因为它们加热时不会融化，这点不像金属和塑料，尽管它们是脆的。

• we cannot transubstantiate base metals into gold.

  我们不能把贱金属变成金子。

• in 83% of circumstances (pdf) recycling paper, card, glass, plastics and metals is preferable to any other option for dealing with them.

  在83%的情况下，回收废纸，卡片，玻璃，塑料和金属比任何其他的处理方法都要明智。

• these metals get into smokers along with a cocktail of other toxicants.

  这些金属和其他有害物质一起被摄入吸烟者的体内。

• the usual way to do this is with a thermocouple—a sandwich of two metals that produce a current when one side of the sandwich is hotter than the other.

  通常这种热-电转化方式是利用热电偶实现的。热电偶由两层不同的金属构成，其中一层比另一层温度高时就在两层金属间产生电流。

• that generates electricity and causes the metals to recombine in the electrolyte.

  这会产生电流并使金属在电解液中重新合成。

• some kinds of acids react on metals to cause chemical changes.

  有几种酸对金属起作用，会引起化学变化。

• techniques for conserving and stabilising metals recovered from nautical environments have been developed and tested but have never been applied to a complete aircraft.

  为保护稳定的航海环境，金属回收技术已经开发和测试，但从来没有被应用到一个完整的飞机上。

• yet there’s no sign of resource hoarding in the data: inventories of food and metals are at or near historic lows, while oil inventories are only normal.

  但是没有任何数据显示库存囤积的迹象。食品和金属的储量正处于或者说逼近历史低点，石油的储量也只是在正常水平上。

• of course, metals are opaque, so the other electrode must be transparent.

  当然，金属是不透明的，因此另一个电极必须是透明的。

• metals expand when they are heated.

  金属受了热就会膨胀。

• it’s precisely because of this suspicion of institutions that he invests in those metals to begin with.

  他如此谨慎是因为他刚开始投资贵重金属时就不信任这些机构。

• until 2001, alloy plants in northern areas of the province spewed a number of metals into the air.

  2001年以前，布雷西亚北部地区的合金厂向空气中排放出大量的金属粒子。