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The character "轧", whose traditional form is "軋", is structured with the radical 車 (chē, meaning cart or vehicle) combined with the phonetic component 乙 (yǐ), a combination which points directly to its core etymology related to the action of a wheeled vehicle. Its original sense was that of grinding, crushing, or rolling under the weight of a cart's wheels, a meaning which naturally extended into industrial and mechanical processes such as the rolling of steel or calendaring of paper. Over centuries, its semantic field broadened to encompass derived experiences of pressure and crowding, giving rise to meanings like being jostled in a dense crowd or the sensation of being overwhelmed, while also acquiring specialized uses in contexts like financial settlements where accounts are "squared" or settled.
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钢铁在工厂里被轧制。
这台轧机需要维修。
他的手指被机器轧伤了。
傍晚我们去轧马路吧。
这种金属的轧制工艺很复杂。
新的轧辊已经安装好了。
车间正在进行冷轧薄板的生产。
老式轧花机的噪音轧得她心烦意乱。