petrol

英 ['petr(?)l] 美['p?tr?l]

近義詞gasoline

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復(fù)數(shù):?petrols;

petrol 汽油

來(lái)自法語(yǔ)petrol,石油，原油，來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)petroleum,石油，原油。后該詞用以指冶煉過(guò)的汽油。

petrol: petrol: [16] Petrol originally meant ‘mineral oil, extracted from the ground’ (what we would now call petroleum or, more loosely, simply oil); not until the end of the 19th century was it applied to the ‘fuel refined from this’. The word was borrowed from French pétrole, which in turn came from Latin petroleum (itself taken over directly into English in the 16th century).

This means etymologically ‘rock-oil’. It was formed from petra ‘rock’ and oleum ‘oil’. Other English words that go back to Latin petra or its Greek source pétrā include parsley, petrify [16], saltpetre [16] (so called because it forms a crust like salt on rocks), and the name Peter (a reference to Jesus calling the apostle Simon the ‘rock on which he would build his church’ – hence ‘Simon Peter’).
=> parsley, petrify, saltpetre
petrol (n.): "gasoline," 1895, from French pétrol (1892); earlier used (1580s) in reference to the unrefined substance, from Middle French petrole "petroleum," from Old French (13c.), from Medieval Latin petroleum (see petroleum).

1. The crowds became violent and threw petrol bombs at the police.: 人群變得狂暴起來(lái)，并向警察投擲汽油彈。

2. There's no petrol, so it's very difficult to transport goods.: 沒(méi)有汽油，因此很難運(yùn)輸貨物。

3. The boom of the 1980s led to a taste for petrol-guzzling cars.: 20世紀(jì)80年代的經(jīng)濟(jì)繁榮使人們喜歡上高油耗的汽車。

4. The price of petrol is coming down by four pence a gallon.: 汽油的價(jià)格每加侖降了4便士。

5. Every eventuality is covered, from running out of petrol to needing water.: 從汽油耗盡到用水緊缺，所有可能發(fā)生的事情都考慮到了。