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 gasoline ['gæsə`lin]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 汽油

[化] 汽油

[经] 汽油


  1. Our gasoline has been used up.
    我们的汽油用完了。
  2. The car is short of gasoline.
    汽车的汽油不够了。
  3. As a rule of thumb, a one-cent-a-gallon gasoline tax raises$1 billion. Oil producers in President-elect Bush's adopted state of Texas, however, would rather see a tax on imported crude oil.
    一般情形是,每加仑加汽油一分钱的税可以征收10亿元。可是,在布什第二家乡德克萨斯州的产油商宁愿看见在进口原油上征税。


gasoline
[ noun ]
a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
<noun.substance>


Gasoline \Gas"o*line\, Gasolene \Gas"o*lene\(? or ?; 104), n.
A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained
mostly from petroleum, as also by the distillation of
bituminous coal. It is used as a fuel for most automobiles
and for many other vehicles with internal combustion engines.
The gasoline of commerce is typically blended with additives
to improve its performance in internal combustion engines.
Gasoline was also used in the early 1900's in making air gas,
and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See
{Carburetor}.

Syn: petrol[Brit]. [1913 Webster +PJC]

  1. At a local gasoline station visited monthly by a part-time Labor Deprtment worker, the manager is nonchalant about his role in compiling one of the government's most important economic indicators.
  2. "We're going to put on (the witness stand) the girlfriend, the guy that sold him the gasoline, the two guys he talked to _ the neighbors _ at his house," McCarthy said.
  3. A tanker truck that was aboard had been hired to shuttle fuel to holding tanks at a crude-oil processing facility operated by Marathon Oil Co. The crew had pumped 1,000 gallons of gasoline into the truck before the explosion, Marrs said.
  4. While Exxon said it will sell its new gasoline in both premium and midgrade unleaded, it shunned the "cleaner" formulation for the most popular and least costly grade, regular unleaded.
  5. The Kremlin said it was tightening the tap on Lithuania's natural gas supply Tuesday and may cut oil and gasoline to the Baltic republic for refusing to rescind pro-independence laws, Lithuanian leaders said.
  6. A month-long hearing into the proposed takeover ended Wednesday with a warning from the Consumers' Association of Canada that the deal would cost motorists at the gasoline pump.
  7. A stack of tortillas, the mainstay of the Mexican diet, can still be bought for about a nickel a pound, and the prices of milk, gasoline and a host of other products haven't changed much.
  8. The price of a gallon of gasoline jumped from 7 cents to more than $2 and the cost of many food products tripled and quadrupled.
  9. The state-owned fuel monopoly says sales of gasoline dropped more than 20 percent during the first 20 days of 1990, compared with 1989.
  10. In April, the average price of regular unleaded gasoline was 93.3 cents a gallon, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  11. Oil prices fell Tuesday, weakened by trader expectations of more crude and gasoline supplies reaching the market.
  12. For example, a customer with a Pulse card may pay for gasoline at any Mobil station that has an on-line electronic card payment machine.
  13. The April contract for unleaded gasoline rose 0.21 cent to 57.35 cents a gallon.
  14. They closed Friday at 8. "If gasoline goes up 10 cents a gallon, you won't stop using your snowmobile," says Ralph Wanger, president of the $800 million Acorn Fund of Chicago.
  15. The Persian Gulf crisis has given new life to Brazil's program to run its vehicles on pure sugar-cane alcohol instead of gasoline.
  16. A 2- to 3-cent increase in the gasoline tax, now 17 cents a gallon, is proposed to keep the state's highway construction program on schedule.
  17. Heating oil also finished higher in futures trading while gasoline softened.
  18. For about two years, the cooperative station has sold its gasoline to the public at a lower profit margin than most stations.
  19. By most accounts, higher Medicare premiums and taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and gasoline are likely to be included.
  20. "This is a balanced bill," said Domenici. "It is progressive." But House Speaker Thomas Foley said Democrats wanted the Senate to moderate its gasoline tax increase and its steeper increases in out-of-pocket Medicare costs for beneficiaries.
  21. The Justice Department said Monday it would prosecute any anti-trust violations it finds in the oil and gasoline price run-up _ and it's looking for them.
  22. On the 55-mile journey from Baghdad south to Babylon, past oil refineries and anti-aircraft batteries, Saddam's portraits appear on almost every building, at gasoline stations and fruit stands.
  23. The tax on aviation gasoline would increase from 12 cents to 15 cents and on jet fuel from 14 cents to 18 cents.
  24. Wholesale unleaded gasoline soared more than 2 cents a gallon in choppy, nervous trading Thursday on technical factors and anticipation that OPEC members may soon reach a formal agreement for slashing oil production.
  25. Companies and some anlaysts attributed the soaring gasoline price increases over the weekend to higher costs, fluctuations on the frenetic oil markets and added demand during the summer driving season.
  26. Oil companies say this gasoline redesign will raise prices from 15 to 25 cents a gallon, even if the new formula works. Supporters say the cost is only a penny a gallon.
  27. Rothschild added that many companies chose to emphasize production of their highest octane and most profitable gasoline, which also had the effect of increasing prices.
  28. Polish drivers are being forced off the roads not only by the doubling of gasoline prices but also by steep increases in car registration fees, highway taxes and insurance premiums.
  29. The price of gasoline increased from 14,600 to 15,400 cordobas per gallon on Tuesday, the government said.
  30. The American Petroleum Institute's weekly inventory data, released after the close of trading, showed a continued expansion in U.S. supplies of gasoline and petroleum distillates but a drop in crude oil stocks.
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