英汉词典

petrol 基本解释

• n. （英）汽油

petrol 词态变化

petrol 中文词源

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 英文词源

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).

petrol 英文释义

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

petrol 同义词解析

gasoline, petrol

这两个名词均表示"汽油"。

作"汽油"解时，这两个词的区别在于使用地区不同，gasoline用于美国，而petrol则是英国的用词。

petrol 双语例句

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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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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。

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petrol 实用场景例句

to fill a car up with petrol

给汽车油箱装满汽油

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to run out of petrol

用光汽油

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the petrol tank of a car

汽车的油箱

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an increase in petrol prices

汽油价格的上涨

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leaded/unleaded petrol

含铅 / 无铅汽油

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The structure of the DBs will remain essentially the same as now.

152.区议会的架构基本上会维持不变.

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Nowadays petrol costs too much.

如今的汽油太贵了.

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Our car was useless for want of petrol.

由于缺少汽油,我们的汽车派不上用场.

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Petrol ignites very easily.

汽油很容易着火.

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Before travelling we must ensure the availability of petrol and oil.

旅行前,我们必须确保能够买到汽油和机油.

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It's true that it's a comfortable car, but it eats up the petrol.

这辆车确实舒服, 但耗油量太大了.

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My car runs on unleaded petrol.

我的车用无铅汽油.

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We'd better stop at the garage to fill up, we're nearly out of petrol.

汽油快用光了, 我们最好在汽车修理厂停车加油.

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The whole building was sent up in flames when the petrol exploded.

汽油爆炸时,整个楼房都被大火烧毁了.

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After a long journey, we got to a petrol station at last.

一场长途跋涉后, 我们终于赶到了加油站.

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The car ran out of petrol, and as a further complication I had no money!

汽车没油了, 更麻烦的是我身上没有钱!

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There is a ban on smoking in petrol stations.

加油站禁止吸烟.

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chemical additives in petrol

汽油中的化学添加剂

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The car was doused in petrol and set alight.

这辆汽车被浇上汽油点燃了。

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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。

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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。

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She put diesel fuel, instead of petrol, into the tank causing the motor to seize up.

她往油箱里加了些柴油而不是汽油，致使发动机发生故障。

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A police patrol car was parked in the forecourt of the petrol station.

一辆巡逻警车停在加油站的停车区。

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I first started cruising in yachts with temperamental petrol engines.

我刚开始驾驶游艇航行时，艇上的汽油发动机老出毛病。

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The policy announcement caused panic buying of petrol.

那则政策公告引发了汽油抢购风潮。

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There are already long queues of vehicles at petrol pumps.

加油泵边车辆已经排起了长队。

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A car will come to a grinding halt if you put water in the petrol tank.

如果把水灌进油箱，汽车会猛然间停下来。

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