The principle of this furnace consists in utilising the heat of the products of combustion to warm up the gaseous fuel and air which enters the furnace. This is done by making these products pass through brickwork chambers which absorb their heat and communicate it to the gas and air currents going to the flame. An extremely high temperature is thus obtained, and the furnace has, in consequence, been largely used in the manufacture of glass and steel.英文原著 · 《Heroes of the Telegraph》
Then after a period of prosperity the hard times had come again in 1891 and '92. My furnace job in Pittsburgh was not steady. The town was full of iron workers and many of them were in desperate need. Those who had jobs divided their time with their needy comrades. A man with hungry children would be given a furnace for a few days to earn enough to ward off starvation. I had no children and felt that I should not hold a furnace. I left Pittsburgh and went to Niles, Ohio, where I found less competition for the jobs. I worked a few weeks and the mill shut down.英文原著 · 《The Iron Puddler》
Tewell: the pipe, chimney, of the furnace; French "tuyau." In the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, the Monk's head is described as steaming like a lead furnace.英文原著 · 《The Canterbury Tales》
Grandfather also went to America, where his skill helped build the first blast furnace in Maryland. The furnace fires have not ceased burning here, and Russia is crying for our steel to patch her broken railways. Her own hills are full of iron and her hands are as strong as ours. Let them expect no gift from life. Grandfather told my father that America offered a rich future for him and his boys. "The metal is there," he said, "as it is in Russia. Russia may never develop, but America will. A nation's future lies not in its resources.英文原著 · 《The Iron Puddler》
"That's the electric furnace, sir," said Craig to me with an assumed deference, becoming a college professor explaining things to the son of a great financier. "You see the electrodes at either end? When the current is turned on and led through them into the furnace you can get the most amazing temperatures in the crucible. The most refractory of chemical compounds can be broken up by that heat. What is the highest temperature you have attained, Professor?"英文原著 · 《The Silent Bullet》
Poissan nodded. "I take this sugar carbon and place it in this soft iron cup. Then I screw on this cap over the cup, so. Now I place this mass of iron scraps in the crucible of the furnace and start the furnace."英文原著 · 《The Silent Bullet》
As for your question: the same reason you leave a house that has a furnace leaking carbon monoxide: It's the only way to survive.美剧 · 《Billions》
I'd require a long escrow, and if the furnace isn't up to code, I'll need it replaced...美剧 · 《Sex and the city》
Termites, asbestos, mold, lead paint, foundation cracks, warped floor boards, water damage, missing copper pipes and plumbing fixtures, rodent infestation, shoddy electrical work, ancient furnace, major roof issues, freshly destroyed kitchen window and a broken closet door.美剧 · 《Shameless》