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sewage

/soo-ij/US // ˈsu ɪdʒ //UK // (ˈsuːɪdʒ) //

污水,污水处理,排污,污物

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the waste matter that passes through sewers.

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Examples

  • The reason sewage results go up or down before official case numbers do is that people seem to start shedding the virus into toilets a day or two before they feel ill, and it often takes even more time to receive a test result.

  • Projects like Echoparque, or Echo Park in English, promote the benefits of reutilization of sewage water.

  • In 2014, state inspectors found the Wish-I-Ah nursing home in Fresno County, among other things, failed to maintain its sewage treatment system, forcing workers without protective gear to remove and dispose of raw sewage.

  • Tribal reservations were not eligible for federal water and sewage funding until the late 1980s.

  • Once cases reached zero, the state was planning to start testing sewage for Covid-19 to get a head start on any resurgence.

  • The billionaire philanthropist tastes the product of a machine that processes human sewage into drinking water and electricity.

  • What specific bacteria and viruses can be detected in the sewage?

  • Today, sewage overflow is rarely an issue in developed cities.

  • For the enormous quantities of clean water that are piped in, an equal amount of sewage is piped out.

  • President Lyndon Johnson had just taken a tour of communities in Appalachia without electricity, running water, or sewage systems.

  • In its liquid form, however, sewage manure has been employed with the best possible effect in the cultivation of meadows.

  • If sewage is to be used at all, there seems little doubt that it must be by applying it entire, and in the liquid state.

  • The sewage of the dirtiest city in China—which is saying about all that can be said on the subject—is emptied into this river.

  • After a season or two of sewage soaking the soil becomes so soft that in the winter months it is unapproachable.

  • They may also take proceedings in respect of the pollution of a stream by any solid or liquid sewage matter.