Fuel
[fjʊəl] or ['fjuəl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a substance that can be consumed to produce energy; 'more fuel is needed during the winter months'; 'they developed alternative fuels for aircraft'.
(verb.) stimulate; 'fuel the debate on creationism'.
(verb.) take in fuel, as of a ship; 'The tanker fueled in Bahrain'.
(verb.) provide with a combustible substance that provides energy; 'fuel aircraft, ships, and cars'.
(verb.) provide with fuel; 'Oil fires the furnace'.
拜伦整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.
(n.) Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement.
(v. t.) To feed with fuel.
(v. t.) To store or furnish with fuel or firing.
整理:奥利维亚
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Firing.
弗洛伊德手打
解釋/意思:
n. anything that feeds a fire supplies energy &c.—v.t. (arch.) to furnish with fuel.—adj. Fū′elled furnished with fuel.—n. Fū′eller one who or that which supplies fuel for fires.
整理:佩吉
例句/造句/用法:
- One early station in New York for arc lighting was an old soap-works whose well-soaked floors did not need much additional grease to render them choice fuel for the inevitable flames. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The coal in the retorts is not entirely consumed, but is reduced to the condition of coke, and in this form is sold for fuel. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Finally, the fuel consumption is reduced, which in the case of the Eastern plants, with their relatively costly coke, is a very important consideration. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The heat-treating department contains about seventy-five large furnaces, which consume from 5,000 to 6,000 gallons of fuel oil per day. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Oil is used for fuel. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He estimated the consumption of fuel by a theoretically perfect air engine on Mr. Stirling's principle at 0·37 lbs. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The stove stood near my desk, he attacked it; the little iron door was nearly dashed from its hinges, the fuel was made to fly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- There are none of the bad effects so often caused by the air becoming vitiated, due to the burning up of oxygen in the air by gas and other fuels. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
巴里整理