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The act of taking or pulling something out, usually with some force or effort. A dentist performs a 'tooth extraction' (pulling out a tooth). Companies do the 'extraction' of oil or minerals from the ground. It can also mean pulling information out of someone, sometimes by force or trickery. There's also an older, more formal use for family background — 'of Italian extraction' means your family originally came from Italy.
拔除(拔牙);開採(資源,如石油、礦物);套出(資訊);家族血統來源(較正式的用法,如「義大利裔」)
組成ex- (out) + a root meaning 'to pull or draw' + -ion
原始詞典資料6 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。
extractionnoun/ɪkˈstɹækʃən/
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The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
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Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
- They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
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A person's origin or ancestry.
- Our companion on these tours was a young tourist, an American of Russian extraction, whose questions and remarks drew our attention to some details of Haifa life that have become too familiar and would have otherwise passed unnoticed. ...
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governmentmilitarypoliticsThe act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
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dentistrymedicinesciencesThe removal of a tooth from its socket.
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The extraction yield of a brewed coffee.
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。