- 1水力壓裂（開採頁岩氣等的工法；也有人說水力裂解）
Fracking is a way of getting natural gas (and sometimes oil) out of deep rock. Workers pump a liquid down at very high pressure so the rock cracks. Those cracks let the gas move up. The long name is hydraulic fracturing: hydraulic means “using liquid under pressure,” and fracturing means “breaking.” People that to fracking. It is a fighting word as much as a science word. Companies and some governments talk about cheap energy; many other people talk about dirty water, small earthquakes, and spoiled land. In news and on protest signs it is almost never calm or neutral. Though actually, the method is older than the loud argument — what changed is doing it on a huge scale. It is not a general word for digging, and it is not “freaking,” which only sounds similar.
組成frack (“fracture,” a short form) + -ing. So it is “the fracturing,” said the quick way.
同家族的字
- fracturefrack is a short form of this breaking word
- fracturingthe longer name, hydraulic fracturing, is the same process
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
frackingnoun詞源 1/ˈfɹækɪŋ/
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Hydraulic fracturing.
- Still, environmentalists look to the U.S., where drilling with fracking is now a “megatrend” and where thousands of wells dot the landscape in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Colorado. They worry about higher greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional natural gas—because of the energy used to get the gas—and water contamination.
- There is strong resistance in much of Europe to fracking, the practice of forcing liquid and sand into wells to release trapped oil and gas. France has a ban on fracking, Germany has imposed a moratorium, and opposition has cropped up and sometimes delayed shale exploration in Eastern European countries like Romania and Poland.
frackingadj詞源 2/ˈfɹækɪŋ/
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slangFucking.
- He's a fracking hawk the likes of which Hopkins never imagined — he's a blue darter.
- As we said before, will someone please agree on a fracking dual videocard standard?
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