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A coalfield is a stretch of land with coal under the ground — often a lot of it, in layers, over a wide area. Towns grew on coalfields because people could mine there. You will meet the word in geography, history, and talk about old industrial regions. Walking across a coalfield you may see grass, roads, and houses, not black rock: the coal is below. It is not a farmer's field with coal sitting on top.
煤田
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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。
coalfieldnoun
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Any region containing deposits of coal that may be mined.
- The east-west flow consists in the westerly direction of the agricultural and industrial products of East Anglia; imports through London and Parkeston (Harwich); special traffic in coke to the Northamptonshire ironfield; and mineral empties returning to the Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and South Yorkshire coalfields.
- The amount of coal despatched in the Western Region is about 24,000,000 tons a year, nearly all from South Wales, though the Region includes the Forest of Dean, N. Somerset, and part of the N. Wales coalfields.
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。