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shale

/ʃeɪl/ /ʃeɪl/
  • n.
    [岩] 页岩;泥板岩
复数shales

双语例句

  1. We must find economical methods for extracting oil from shale.
    我们必须找到从页岩中采油的经济方法。
    来自《新英汉大辞典》
  2. The North American shale gas boom has resulted in record low prices there.
    北美页岩气的繁荣导致那里的价格创新低。
  3. The Burgess Shale formation also has fossils of many extinct representatives of modern animal groups.
    伯吉斯页岩地层中也有许多代表着现代动物群中已经灭绝的物种的化石。

相关短语

  • oil shale
    油页岩;油母页岩;油轮;页岩油
  • SHALE OIL
    页岩油;岩油;洗井用过的废液;而岩油
  • shale gas
    页岩气
  • Burgess Shale
    把基斯页岩;柏吉斯页岩;布尔吉斯页岩
  • Mancos shale
    曼柯斯页岩

同义词

n.
[岩]页岩;泥板岩

词义分布

页岩
97.8%
泥页岩
2.2%

英英释义

  • n.a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay

词源

  • shale页岩
    来自古英语 scealu,壳,鳞片,来自 Proto-Germanic*skalo,切片,分片,来自 PIE*skel,切,分 开,词源同 scale,shell.引申词义页岩。
  • shale
    From Middle English schale ‎(“shell, husk; scale”), from Old English sċealu ‎(“shell, husk, pod”), from Proto-Germanic *skalō (compare West Frisian skaal ‎(“dish”), Dutch schaal ‎(“shell”), schalie ‎(“shale”), German Schale ‎(“husk, pod”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- ‎(“to split, cut”) (compare Lithuanian skalà ‎(“splinter”), Old Church Slavonic скала ‎(skala, “rock, stone”), Polish skała ‎(“rock”), Albanian halë ‎(“fish bone, splinter”), Sanskrit कल ‎(kalá, “small part”)), from to split, cleave (compare Hittite [script needed] ‎(iškalla, “to tear apart, slit open”), Lithuanian skélti ‎(“to split”), Ancient Greek σκάλλω ‎(skállō, “to hoe, harrow”)).