The sea is a path meet for swift ships that traverse the brine, but bulls dread the salt sea ways. 大海是来往于咸水之中的快艇的运动场,不是牡牛行走的地方。
brine
[ noun ]
water containing salts
<noun.substance> the water in the ocean is all saltwater
a strong solution of salt and water used for pickling
<noun.food> [ verb ]
soak in brine
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Brine \Brine\, n. [AS. bryne a burning, salt liquor, brine, fr. brinnan, brynnan, to burn. See {Burn}.] 1. Water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; pickle; hence, any strong saline solution; also, the saline residue or strong mother liquor resulting from the evaporation of natural or artificial waters.
2. The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.
Not long beneath the whelming brine . . . he lay. --Cowper.
3. Tears; -- so called from their saltness.
What a deal of brine Hath washed thy sallow cheecks for Rosaline! --Shak.
{Brine fly} (Zo["o]l.), a fly of the genus {Ephydra}, the larv[ae] of which live in artificial brines and in salt lakes.
{Brine gauge}, an instrument for measuring the saltness of a liquid.
{Brine pan}, a pit or pan of salt water, where salt is formed by cristallization.
{Brine pit}, a salt spring or well, from which water is taken to be boiled or evaporated for making salt.
{Brine pump} (Marine Engin.), a pump for changing the water in the boilers, so as to clear them of the brine which collects at the bottom.
{Brine shrimp}, {Brine worm} (Zo["o]l.), a phyllopod crustacean of the genus {Artemia}, inhabiting the strong brines of salt works and natural salt lakes. See {Artemia}.
{Brine spring}, a spring of salt water.
{Leach brine} (Saltmaking), brine which drops from granulated salt in drying, and is preserved to be boiled again.
Brine \Brine\, v. t. 1. To steep or saturate in brine.
2. To sprinkle with salt or brine; as, to brine hay.
Most hams in supermarket meat counters are wet-cured quickly in brine solutions and cooked before sale to consumers.
The carcass is then submerged in a cold brine solution that leaches out more blood.
Cornell University gets a $15,738 state grant to explore a new process to produce milder and "more consistent" sauerkraut by removing glucose from brine.
After the ponds flooded last summer, Amax signed a two-year contract with Leslie Salt, a Cargill Inc. unit, to import the brine.
Many suspect a Wendover company's practice of draining brine from land adjacent to the flats to recover potash.
The radium, which is leached from uranium and thorium found in deep geological formations, is brought to the surface with oilfield brine and tends to concentrate in the scaly residue that forms inside pipe.
The utility said Heber Binary Project's heat suppliers, Unocal Corp. and the Chevron Geothermal Co. of California unit of Chevron Corp., had fallen two years behind on drilling the wells because of problems in the brine supply at the site.
The city's critics have argued for years that unchecked diversions eventually will cut the lake to a third its natural size, raise the lake's salinity and threaten brine shrimp and birds that eat the shrimp.
At a site in Cameron Parish, La., pipe used to carry off brine formed as the caverns are created has corroded and ruptured.