喜樂美語
  1. 1nA2/ˈpetrəl/汽油

    a liquid fuel that is made from petroleum and that you put into cars, buses, and other vehicles to make their engines work.

    示範例句 · Example

    Dad stopped at the petrol station because the car was almost out of petrol.

    逐字爸爸在加油站停下來，因為車子幾乎沒有汽油了。

    petrol 是「加進車子油箱、讓引擎跑得動的那種液體」，就是台灣說的「汽油」。它不可數，所以說 some petrol、a litre of petrol，不說 a petrol 或 petrols。petroleum 是地底挖出來的「石油」，petrol 則是石油提煉之後、真的加得進車子的那一罐；兩個字長得像，可以想成 petroleum 裡藏著「石頭」加「油」。英國人說 petrol，美國人說同一種液體時說 gas 或 gasoline。

    常見搭配

    • a petrol station

      加油站

      a place where you stop to put petrol into your car

      We'd better stop at the next petrol station.

    • run out of petrol

      汽油用完、沒油了

      to use all the petrol you have, so the car stops

      They ran out of petrol a few kilometres from home.

    • fill up with petrol

      加滿油

      to put petrol into a car until the tank is full

      She stopped to fill up with petrol before the long drive.

    • unleaded petrol

      無鉛汽油

      petrol that does not contain lead, which is better for the air

      All these models run on unleaded petrol.

    • run on petrol

      以汽油為動力

      to get power from petrol

      Older buses run on petrol, but the new ones use electricity.

    • the petrol tank

      油箱

      the part of a vehicle that holds the petrol

      The petrol tank was nearly empty.

    • a litre of petrol

      一公升汽油

      one litre of petrol, used when talking about how much or how expensive it is

      A litre of petrol costs more than it did last year.

    意思相近

    gasgasolinefuel

core核心畫面

Think of the liquid you pour into a car at a filling station: it comes from oil dug out of the ground, it burns inside the engine, and that burning is what makes the wheels turn. In British English this liquid is called petrol; American English calls the same thing gas or gasoline.

可以想成加油站油槍裡流出來的那種液體：它從地底挖出來的石油提煉而來，倒進車子的油箱後在引擎裡燃燒，車子才會動。這個字是英式用法，美式英語講同一個東西會說 gas 或 gasoline，所以看到 petrol station 和 gas station，指的其實是同一種地方。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

意思相近

gasgasolinefuel

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

petrolnoun/ˈpɛt.ɹəl/

  • 1

    A fluid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, primarily consisting of octane, commonly used as a motor fuel.

    • 1987 October 29, Advertisement, New Scientist, page 31, We were the first company to introduce unleaded petrol in Britain, opening our first pump in June 1986.
    • 2000 September 27, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 106th Congress, Second Session, Volume 146, Part 14, page 19605, European oil firms are beginning to follow the example of their American counterparts by adding convenience stores to their pumps: the typical American petrol station now makes some 40 percent of its profits from the sale of non-oil products, such as cigarettes and beer.
  • 2

    informalA motor vehicle powered by petrol (as opposed to diesel).

    • However, I do feel entitled to criticise the car. There are lots of different versions: manuals and automatics; petrols and diesels; two-wheel drives and four-wheel drives, and it's possible to spend thirty grand on one.

petrolverb/ˈpɛt.ɹəl/

  • 1

    datedTo fill or supply (a vehicle, etc.) with petrol.

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