喜樂美語
  1. 1泥漿、漿狀混合物；農場的叫「液肥、糞水」,工地的叫「泥漿、水泥漿」,煮菜的叫「太白粉水」

    A slurry is a thick, soupy mixture of water and something solid ground up small — mud, cement, coal dust, ash, or animal waste from a farm. It is thin enough to pour and to pump through a pipe, but thick enough to feel heavy and to settle if you leave it standing. That in-between texture is the whole point of the word: a slurry is neither a liquid nor a solid pile. You meet it in three places. On farms, slurry is the wet stored in a big tank and later sprayed on the fields — and when a slurry tank leaks into a river, it kills the fish, so this is common news in Britain and Ireland. In building and mining, slurry is the cement-and-water or rock-and-water mixture that gets pumped around a site. And in cooking, a slurry is the small cup of stirred into cold water before you pour it into a hot sauce to it — the same idea, just clean and small. There is also a verb, 'to slurry', but it is rare and technical; you can go your whole life without using it. The word is countable and uncountable both ways — 'a slurry of cement' or 'spreading slurry on the fields' — so do not worry too much about the article.

組成Probably related to Middle English 'sloor', meaning thin, runny mud — the word has been in English since about the 1400s. Compare 'slur', which may share the same root.

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slurrynoun詞源 1/ˈslʌ.ɹi/

  • 1

    Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.

    • 1981, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Animal Nutrition, Feeding Value of Ethanol Production By-products, page 26, While little information is available, it probably is similar to spent brewers yeast slurry.
    • The most important application of fluid flow techniques in the mineral processing industry is the transportation of slurries. Whenever solid materials are in particulate form transportation in the form of a slurry is possible.
  • 2

    businessminingLiquid waste from some types of mining, such as mountain top removal mining, usually very toxic and stored nearby in large dams.

    • Slurry tailings ponds are by far the major type of containment facilities for slurry tailings.
  • 3

    agriculturebusinesslifestyleA mixture of animal waste, other organic material and sometimes water, stored in a slurry pit and used as fertilizer; also used in combination, as pig slurry, etc.

    • In the Netherlands, the most problematic agricultural waste is liquid pig manure or pig slurry.
  • 4

    cookingfoodlifestyleA thickener.

slurryverb詞源 1/ˈslʌ.ɹi/

  • 1

    To make a slurry (of some material).

  • 2

    To apply a slurry (to).

    • Next week we will be slurrying the parking lot.

slurryadj詞源 2/ˈslɝi/

  • 1

    Slurred, tending to slur.

    • He spoke with a slurry voice.
    • His voice became progressively slurrier as he drank the three bottles of wine.

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