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jack-tar

/jak-tahr/US // ˈdʒækˈtɑr //

千斤顶,千层塔,千里马

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a sailor.

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Examples

  • The State Department found that with high oil prices, the tar sands would be mined for oil, pipeline or no.

  • Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top.

  • Starting in the 1970s, then MPAA president Jack Valenti began what was to become a decades-long fight against the quota system.

  • Therefore, we should—you guessed it—develop the Canadian tar sands and build the Keystone pipeline.

  • Heinold's First and Last Chance, Oakland (Jack London, Taft) You can thank Johnny Heinold for your favorite Jack London book.

  • Strathland would bundle me out in ten minutes if anything happened to Jack.

  • She is immensely rich, one of the ablest political women in London, and Jack is desperately in love with her.

  • How on earth can Jack find time to think about women with the immense amount of work he gets through?

  • No, Jack is not much to look at, except when he wakes up—I have seen him quite transfigured on the platform.

  • Little Jack Charmington, her husband, had a snug four hundred a year of his own, which quite sufficed for his modest needs.