• n. 油；石油；油畫顏料
• vt. 加油；涂油；使融化
• vi. 融化；加燃油

來自拉丁語oleum,油，橄欖油，詞源同olive.后詞義通用化，也用于指石油，原油等。

oil

oil: [12] Around the Mediterranean in ancient times the only sort of oil encountered was that produced by pressing olives, and so ‘oil’ was named after the olive. The Greek word for ‘olive’ was elaíā, and from it was derived elaíon ‘olive oil’. This passed into Latin as oleum, and reached English via Old French oile. By now it had begun to be applied to similar substances pressed from nuts, seeds, etc, but its specific modern use for the mineral oil ‘petroleum’ is a much more recent, essentially 19th-century development.
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oil (n.)

late 12c., "olive oil," from Anglo-French and Old North French olie, from Old French oile, uile "oil" (12c., Modern French huile), from Latin oleum "oil, olive oil" (source of Spanish, Italian olio), from Greek elaion "olive tree," from elaia (see olive). Old English ?le, Dutch olie, German ?l, etc. all are from Latin. It meant "olive oil" exclusively till c. 1300, when meaning began to be extended to any fatty, greasy substance. Use for "petroleum" first recorded 1520s, but not common until 19c. The artist's oils (1660s), short for oil-color (1530s), are paints made by grinding pigment in oil.

oil (v.)

mid-15c., from oil (n.). Related: Oiled; oiling. An Old English verb in this sense was besmyrian.

1. The price of oil should remain stable for the rest of 1992.

油價(jià)會在1992年剩下的時間里保持穩(wěn)定。

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2. Check the oil at regular intervals, and have the car serviced regularly.

定期檢查汽油，并對車輛進(jìn)行定期維護(hù)。

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3. The fossil fuels (coal and oil) are finite resources.

化石燃料（如煤和石油）屬于有限資源。

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4. Fire may have breached the cargo tanks and set the oil ablaze.

大火當(dāng)時有可能把貨船上的油罐燒漏了，從而引燃原油。

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5. Petroleum engineers plan and manage the extraction of oil.

石油工程師規(guī)劃并管理石油的提煉。

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