iron ore• The iron and steel industry of Rotherham exists because long ago iron ore was mined locally as well as coal.• It soon ventured into steelmaking to use its coal and iron ore.• The manganese and iron ores of the Urals were linked to great coalfields 1,250 miles further east.• This applies to, for example, gold, petroleum, copper, iron ore, lead, silver, nickel and zinc.• These ironworks were built in 173 6 and were worked for 130 years, exploiting local iron oredeposits.• The greater abundance of iron ores over those of copper also meant that iron was more readily obtainable and cheaper.• Here there are thick deposits of iron ore near the base of some rocks of oolitic limestone which are of Jurassic age.• When the iron ore was worked out the township including the school would pack up and move on.
1DCCTto make clothes smooth using an iron 〔用熨斗〕熨平SYN press
Have you ironed my shirt?
我的衬衫你熨过了吗?
2iron something ↔ outphrasal verbphr vSOLVE/DEAL WITH A PROBLEMto solve or get rid of problems or difficulties, especially small ones 消除,解决〔尤指小问题或困难〕
We need to iron out a few problems first.
我们需要先解决几个问题。
Examples from the Corpus
iron out• All around its abandonedbuildings some one had left a junkyard of old wood and ironscrap.• If something doesn't happen it's your responsibility to iron any problems out.• If there are any problems in performance-related pay, we can iron these out.• Separating the two parts is considerably easier than with cast iron.• As the neatly ironed shirt billows out a special effect signifies the effects of Bold.• Grapplingirons were thrown out but these, too, provedineffective.• I sort of iron it outflat on my knee and look close.• Before that, Donahue climbed down the iron rungs sticking out the sides of the manhole.
iron fist• Aceswung round, her gauntletscurled into iron fists.• The protuberance under her fingers felt soft and hard at the same time, an iron fist in a velvet glove.• Nowadays we need the iron fist of policing in order that we might sleep soundly in our beds.• But he offered not only an iron fist to Hanoi there was a velvet glove also.