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沿线

yán xiàn

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 沿線

沿线 (yán xiàn) means "along the line (e.g. railway); the region near the line". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 沿线 means

1. along the line (e.g. railway)
2. the region near the line

The characters in 沿线

• 沿yánalong; to follow (a line, tradition etc); to carry on
• 线xiànthread; string; wire

Example sentences

• 政府官员与业界人士也开始意识到「甲烷捕捉计画」的潜力。美国农业部正在密西西比州及其他数个州资助农场内的实验场址。部分大型禽肉加工业者正在成立再生能源部门，以供应饲料厂所需电力。此外，一家燃料公司正在评估是否可以用鸡只排放的甲烷取代天然气，并注入管线，用来为部分沿线发电机提供动力。
  Officials from government and industry are also starting to recognize the potential of the Methane Capture Project. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is funding experimental on-farm sites in Mississippi and several other states. Some large poultry processors are launching renewable energy divisions to power their feed mills. And a fuel company is investigating the possibility of pumping chicken-waste methane instead of natural gas through its pipeline, and to use it to power some of the generators along the way.

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