room-and-pillar / ˈrum ənˈpɪl ər, ˈrʊm- /

💦中学词汇室和柱子房顶和柱子室和柱室和支柱

room-and-pillar 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective

Mining.

  1. noting a means of extracting coal or other minerals from underground deposits by first cutting out rooms, then robbing the pillars between them; pillar-and-breast.

更多room-and-pillar例句

  1. As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
  2. Toomey glides around the room like a Brazilian capoeira dancer.
  3. As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
  4. One day he and some of his roommates were cleaning their room and one of the guys threw the dustpan out into the hall.
  5. Marvin and I leave the poolside and go into his dining room.
  6. The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
  7. In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
  8. Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
  9. His lordship retired shortly to his study, Hetton and Mr. Haggard betook themselves to the billiard-room.
  10. When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.