petrol是什么意思_petrol怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines

中英词源

petrol 汽油

来自法语petrol,石油，原油，来自拉丁语petroleum,石油，原油。后该词用以指冶炼过的汽油。

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).

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词态变化

复数 petrols;

权威造句

1. The crowds became violent and threw petrol bombs at the police.: 人群变得狂暴起来，并向警察投掷汽油弹。

2. There"s no petrol, so it"s very difficult to transport goods.: 没有汽油，因此很难运输货物。

3. The boom of the 1980s led to a taste for petrol-guzzling cars.: 20世纪80年代的经济繁荣使人们喜欢上高油耗的汽车。

4. The price of petrol is coming down by four pence a gallon.: 汽油的价格每加仑降了4便士。

5. Every eventuality is covered, from running out of petrol to needing water.: 从汽油耗尽到用水紧缺，所有可能发生的事情都考虑到了。

近反义词

gasoline

相似短语

petrol balance 汽油秤

petrol capacity 汽油装载容量

petrol carrier 油船

petrol duties 汽油税，石油税

petrol filter 汽油过滤器，汽油滤器

petrol roller 汽油压路机

light petrol 轻汽油

petrol bowser 汽油加油车

petrol content 汽油馏分含量

petrol dripping 汽油流出，滴油，漏油

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