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 refining [rɪ'faɪn] 添加此单词到默认生词本
[计] 精炼, 提纯

[化] 精炼; 精制; 提炼; 匀料; 匀浆

[经] 炼制厂, 精制




    refining
    [ noun ]
    the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)
    <noun.process>


    Refine \Re*fine"\ (r?*f?n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Refined}
    (-find"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Refining}.] [Pref. re- + fine to
    make fine: cf. F. raffiner.]
    1. To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from
    impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from
    extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine
    gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.

    I will bring the third part through the fire, and
    will refine them as silver is refined. --Zech. xiii.
    9.

    2. To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant,
    low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish;
    as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the
    taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.

    Love refines
    The thoughts, and heart enlarges. --Milton.

    Syn: To purify; clarify; polish; ennoble.

    1. The largest increase in the budget comes in the company's petroleum refining, marketing, petrochemicals and plastics business _ up from $330 million in 1988 to $389 million in 1989.
    2. Yesterday, the 65-year-old Mr. Bookout announced he will retire June 30 and be succeeded by Frank Richardson, a longtime Shell employee currently in charge of refining and marketing operations.
    3. J. Louis Frank, who is now Marathon Petroleum's president, was named executive vice presidcent of Marathon Oil, with continuing responsibilities for refining, marketing and transportation activities.
    4. Amerada said its refining and marketing earnings were $90.1 million compared with a loss of $195 million in the 1987 quarter, reflecting writedowns of crude oil and refined product inventory values.
    5. However, he adds, U.S. and European oil refineries might use slightly more platinum if Kuwait loses refining capacity in the war.
    6. Sales were also level in its world-wide corn refining business, although that sector registered a 3.8% increase in operating income.
    7. Workers at the plant were praised by the company for their efforts in refining the team concept and creativity in improving productivity.
    8. Operating profit both from refining and marketing and from exploration and production more than doubled to $112 million from $55 million.
    9. The company said it is writing down the value of the mine because of depressed metal prices and increasing smelting and refining costs, and that the write-down also includes a provision for eventual shutdown costs.
    10. Since its founding, Exxon has expanded to 100 countries worldwide, exploring, producing, refining and marketing oil.
    11. The oil and gas ventures being sold are from the Tenneco Oil Co. subsidiary engaged in oil exploration, production, refining and marketing.
    12. Separately, Mr. Kinnear confirmed at a meeting with security analysts Friday that Texaco is negotiating a sale of refining and marketing operations.
    13. Deutsche Texaco is a fully integrated oil and gas company with producing, marketing and refining operations.
    14. The upgrader project, proposed by Husky Oil Ltd. of Calgary, Alberta, would have a capacity to convert about 46,000 barrels daily of heavy oil into synthetic light crude oil suitable for refining in Canada.
    15. Sources in the petroleum industry, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the bombing has cut Iran's refining capacity by about a third.
    16. A squeeze on refining and marketing earnings marred BP's performance slightly, but analysts were encouraged by an improvement in its minerals business.
    17. As refining capacity has shrunk, so, too, has the yield of gasoline from a barrel of crude, thanks to a government ban on using lead additives to boost octane.
    18. David Fleischer, who follows the refinery industry for Prudential-Bache, said he suspected Coastal would not disclose the purchase amount because it is still negotiating to sell other refining ventures.
    19. The oil and natural gas exploration and refining company said it added two divisions to the unit to provide "stronger technological support" to U.S. and overseas exploration and production operations.
    20. Amoco said its world-wide refining, marketing and transportation segment earned $55 million for the second quarter, down from $173 million a year earlier.
    21. Lingering excess refining capacity and increasingly fierce marketing programs account for much of the pricing pressure faced by refining operations.
    22. Lingering excess refining capacity and increasingly fierce marketing programs account for much of the pricing pressure faced by refining operations.
    23. As a result, Exxon's refining margins were exceptionally high for the 1986 period, more than offsetting the effects of the oil-price collapse on other operations.
    24. Separately, the oil refining and marketing concern said it plans modifications to the refinery, at a total cost of C$15 million, that are expected to result in improved earnings.
    25. Some other copper companies are expected to report significantly lower earnings because of their increased costs of refining.
    26. Amoco, like other major oil companies, has been reviewing its entire refining and marketing operations as the cost of running plants and producing cleaner burning fuels is expected to rise sharply.
    27. Platinum is used heavily in automobile catalytic converters, as well as in chemical production and oil refining.
    28. Chevron also said it was charging $325 million against fourth-quarter earnings for future environmental cleanup costs at U.S. refining, marketing and chemicals locations.
    29. Thomas Utsman, deputy director of Kennedy, said that NASA and contractor engineers worked all night refining the computer model of how the shuttle would perform under the new conditions.
    30. A decade ago, when computer power was scarce, programmers could concentrate on refining programs to make them work as efficiently as possible.
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