The lightning was interminable, letting down thick drips of thunder like pig iron from the heart of a white-hot furnace.

闪电没完没了， 像生铁一样从白热的熔炉中心落下浓密的雷声。

One night, when he just finished breaking the pig iron lock of his neighbor's pigpen, he knocked down a pig wash pail.

一个夜晚，当他刚刚打开邻居家猪舍的生铁锁时，他撞倒了一只泔脚桶。

Nails, wire, metallic ware, chains, anchors, bar and pig iron were made in large quantities; and Great Britain, by an act in 1750, encouraged the colonists to export rough iron to the British Islands.

钉子、铁丝、金属制品、链条、锚、棒材和生铁大量生产；英国通过 1750 年的一项法案，鼓励殖民者向不列颠群岛出口粗铁。

The man who first suggested that so commonplace a substance as air, blown upon molten pig iron, would produce the intensest heat and destroy its impurities, made possible our steel railroads, our steel ships, and our steel cities.

第一个提出像空气这样普通的物质，吹在熔化的生铁上，会产生最强烈的热量并破坏其中的杂质的人，使我们的钢铁铁路、我们的钢船和我们的钢铁城市成为可能。