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Bituminous means ‘of ’ or ‘containing that dark sticky stuff’. So bituminous material on a road is material made with . The phrase you will meet most, though, is bituminous coal: a common, rather soft coal with quite a lot of this tar-like matter in it. It burns with a yellow flame and is widely used in power stations. The word is formal and scientific. Ordinary people just say asphalt, tar, or coal instead of reaching for bituminous. If you only need the road material itself, the simpler noun is .
瀝青的、含瀝青的(bituminous coal 是煙煤)
組成From French bitumineux, built on bitumen plus an adjective ending: ‘full of / like bitumen’.
同家族的字
- bitumenthe sticky stuff this word describes
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bituminousadj
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Of or pertaining to bitumen.
bituminousnoun
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Bituminous coal.
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A type or grade of bituminous coal.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。