extraction
noun /ɪkˈstrækʃn/
/ɪkˈstrækʃn/
- [uncountable, countable] the act or process of removing or obtaining something from something else
提取;提炼;拔出;开采 - oil/mineral/coal, etc. extraction
石油、矿物、煤等的开采 - the extraction of salt from the sea
从海水中提取盐 - Commercial peat extraction is destroying many threatened habitats.
商业泥炭开采正在摧毁许多受威胁的栖息地。 - Methods of extraction vary from mine to mine.
开采方法因矿而异。
- oil/mineral/coal, etc. extraction
- [uncountable] of… extraction (formal) having a particular family origin
(有…)血统;族裔 - an American of Hungarian extraction
匈牙利血统的美国人 - a young American lawyer of Irish extraction
一位有爱尔兰血统的年轻美国律师
- an American of Hungarian extraction
- [countable] (specialist) the process of removing a tooth
拔牙 - I didn’t like having my teeth drilled but extractions were infinitely worse.
我不喜欢让我的牙齿被钻孔,但是拔牙却糟糕得多。
- I didn’t like having my teeth drilled but extractions were infinitely worse.
词源late Middle English: via Old French from late Latin extractio(n-), from Latin extrahere ‘draw out’, from ex- ‘out’ + trahere ‘draw’.