fuel

名词 fuel:

1. a substance that can be consumed to produce energy

动词 fuel:

1. provide with a combustible substance that provides energy
2. provide with fuel
   同义词：fire
3. take in fuel, as of a ship
4. stimulate

1. A defect in the fuel lines prevented the missile from blasting off.
   燃料管路上的一个缺陷妨碍了导弹的发射。
2. One of the main disadvantages of this system is that it uses very large amounts of fuel.
   该系统的主要弱点之一是消耗大量燃料。
3. The newspaper article provided him with fuel for his speech.
   报纸上的这篇文章为他的演讲提供了启发。
4. Coal is used as fuel.
   煤用作燃料。
5. All aircraft must fuel before flight.
   所有飞机飞行前都必须加油。

fu.el

n.（名词）
Something consumed to produce energy, especially:
燃料：某物被消耗以产生能量，尤指：
A material such as wood, coal, gas, or oil burned to produce heat or power.
燃烧剂：木头、煤、天然气、石油等燃烧生热并且产生能量的物质
Fissionable material used in a nuclear reactor.
可裂变物质：用在核反应堆中的可分裂性材料
Nutritive material metabolized by a living organism; food.
食物：被生命组识消耗的营养物；食物
Something that maintains or stimulates an activity or emotion:
刺激因素：保持或增进活力与情绪的东西：
例句：
.Money is the fuel of a volunteer organization.(Natalie de Combray)
.钱是促成自发联合的东西。.(纳塔莉·德·科姆布雷)

n.attributive.（定语名词）
Often used to modify another noun:
常用以修饰另一名词：
例句：
a fuel pump; fuel tanks.
燃料泵；使用燃料的坦克

v.（动词）
fu.eled 也作 fu.elled fu.el.ing fu.el.ling fu.els fu.els
v.tr.（及物动词）
To provide with fuel.
加燃料
To support or stimulate the activity or existence of:
激起：支持或刺激活力与存在：
例句：
rhetoric that fueled the dissenters.
刺激反对者的反问

v.intr.（不及物动词）
To take in fuel.
接受燃料

来源：
Middle English feuel
中古英语 feuel
from Old French fouaille, feuaile
源自 古法语 fouaille, feuaile
from Vulgar Latin *foc3lia [neuter pl. of] .foc3lis [of the hearth or fireplace]
源自 俗拉丁语 *foc3lia [] ·foc3lis的中性复数 [炉子的或壁炉的]
from Latin focus [hearth, fireplace]
源自 拉丁语 focus [炉子，壁炉]

【引伸】
fu.eler
n.（名词）