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    The making of steel — the whole industrial process of turning iron ore into steel, with all the furnaces, heat and machinery that involves. It is not a company and not a person; it is the activity, and so it is uncountable. You will nearly always see it doing one of two jobs. First, as a plain noun: 'steelmaking uses enormous amounts of energy', 'the history of steelmaking in this valley'. Second, sitting in front of another noun to describe it: steelmaking capacity, a steelmaking plant, the steelmaking industry. This second use is the more common one in the news. The word turns up wherever people discuss heavy industry, jobs in old factory towns, or climate change — steelmaking is one of the largest producers of carbon dioxide on earth, so it appears constantly in that conversation. It is neutral and technical, at home in reports and articles rather than in talk.

    煉鋼(這個產業活動、製程)。不是公司也不是人,是「做鋼這件事」;常見於「煉鋼廠 a steelmaking plant」「煉鋼產能 steelmaking capacity」這類搭配。

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組成steel + making. Making is the -ing form of make used as a noun, naming the activity itself. English forms many industry words this way: shipmaking's cousin shipbuilding, filmmaking, winemaking, papermaking.

同家族的字

  • steelmakershares steel and the make root — but names the company doing it, not the activity
  • filmmakingsame -making pattern: the activity of producing films
  • winemakingsame -making pattern, for wine
  • steelworksshares steel — the place where steelmaking happens

原始詞典資料1 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。

steelmakingnoun

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    The manufacture of steel.

    • The principal raw material in steelmaking is iron ore.
    • Iron ore producers are facing the first price fall for annual contracts in seven years as demand weakens for steelmaking inputs.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。