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美：[stim ˈʃʌvəl]
steam shovel如何读
steam shovel是什么意思
蒸汽铲，蒸汽挖土机；
steam shovel英英释义
noun
a power shovel operated by steambroadly: power shovel
steam shovel词源英文解释
The first known use of steam shovel was in 1878
steam shovel儿童词典英英释义
stearic acidnoun
acid obtained by the hydrolysis of a hard fat (as tallow) with alkali
steam shovelnoun
a power machine for digging that was formerly operated by steam
steam shovel 例句
1 Smith uses the analogy of a shovel—which increased the power of able-bodied workers—versus a steam shovel—which did the work for them.
2 According to legend, during construction a big steam shovel got stuck in the soft soil.
3 William Otis wouldn’t patent his industrial steam shovel until 1839, and Alfred Nobel’s dynamite wouldn’t appear until 1866.
4 Humans have an enormous capacity to forgive and forget, but Gruden dug himself a hole with a steam shovel.
5 The steam shovel, used to help fill in the tidal marshes of the Back Bay — and later, to help build the transcontinental railroad.
6 Among the worst moments of the 1918 influenza pandemic are Philadelphia's overwhelmed morgue stacking unembalmed bodies without ice on multiple floors until storage was found, or the city resorting to steam shovels for digging mass graves.