petroleum

名词 petroleum:

1. a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
   同义词：crude oil, crude, rock oil, fossil oil

1. Any new source of energy will be welcome, as there is a shortage of petroleum.
   由于石油短缺，任何一种新能源都会受欢迎。
2. Indonesia is abundant in petroleum deposits.
   印尼的石油蕴藏量丰富。
3. Taiwan seems to contain no petroleum.
   台湾恐怕没有蕴藏石油吧！
4. Petroleum can be used to produce various chemical products.
   石油可用于生产多种化学产品。

pe.tro.le.um

n.Abbr. pet.（名词）缩写 pet.
A thick, flammable, yellow-to-black mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath the earth`s surface, can be separated into fractions including natural gas, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, fuel and lubricating oils, paraffin wax, and asphalt and is used as raw material for a wide variety of derivative products.
石油：一种粘稠易燃的、颜色从黄到黑的汽体、液体和固态碳氢化合物的混合物，天然存在于地表之下，可以分离成多种成份，包括天然气、汽油、挥发油、煤油、燃料和润滑油、石蜡和沥青，作为原材料广泛地用于各种各样衍生产品中

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Medieval Latin petrôleum
源自 中世纪拉丁语 petrôleum
Latin petra [rock] from Greek
拉丁语 petra [岩石] 源自 希腊语
Latin ôleum [oil] * see oil
拉丁语 ôleum [石油] *参见 oil