retorting

基本解释

The original commentary is about typical technologies for oil shale retorting.
介绍了当今世界典型的油页岩干馏技术。
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before retorting to his on-screen partner, “Actually, that ain't a bad way to pick up insurance y’know. ”, all in his unique New York parlance.
早前还击他的屏幕搭档时，他用他的独特的纽约腔调这么说，“事实上，买份保险不失为一个好主意，你知道的。”
Retorting temperature of 500—600℃ was recommended after quality of shale oil, content and calorific value of semi-coke and design of circulating fluidized bed were comprehensively considered.
综合考虑制取半焦所获得的页岩油品质、半焦成分、发热量和循环流化床设计，认为干馏温度介于500~600℃为宜；

If the price of oil stays high enough, if the retorting process can be made cheap enough, and if environmental concerns can be satisfied, there's a lot of oil to be had here.
NPR: Squeezing Oil Out of Stones in the Rocky Mountains

To retort means to reply angrily to someone.
Retort is also a noun.
a glass vessel with a round bulb and long tapering neck that is bent down, used esp in a laboratory for distillation
to heat in a retort