strip-mine
常見例句
- Our education system has mined our minds in the way that we strip-mine the earth, for a particular commodity, and for the future, it won't serve us.
如同獲得商品的欲望驅(qū)使人類掠采礦物資源，現(xiàn)行的教育體制也正以此道壓榨著我們的智力，而這種壓榨并不能造福人類社會。 - And developers,logging companies, and strip-mine operators on the edge of the swamp can easily upset the delicate balance of nature in the area.
- In Season 2, the show reversed those proportions, emphasizing arcs above episodes, in order to chronicle the black-humor ballad of Mags, who killed a man, tried to adopt his daughter, and forged a canny bargain with a corporation that wanted to strip-mine her land.
NEWYORKER: Trigger-Happy - At the enormous oil sand strip mine, shovel cranes drop 100-ton loads of sand into 400-ton dump trucks.
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