fuel英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction. countable,uncountable

— More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food. countable,uncountable

— A little fuel to get down the mountain.
Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action. countable,figuratively,uncountable

— His books were fuel for the revolution.

动词 v.

To provide with fuel. transitive

— […] Lieutenant Hirsch appeared with a sheaf of signals in his hand. He took these from the young man and read them through. Mostly they dealt with routine matters of the fuelling and victualling, but one from the Third Naval Member’s office was unexpected.
To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater. transitive

— There were times, during the first two years of the Biden presidency, when I came close to forgetting about it all: the taunts and the provocations; the incitements and the resentments; the disorchestrated reasoning; the verbal incontinence; the press conferences fueled by megalomania, vengeance, and a soupçon of hydroxychloroquine.

词形变化

fuels plural fuels present,singular,third-person fueling US,participle,present fuelling UK,participle,present fueled US,participle,past fueled US,past fuelled UK,participle,past fuelled UK,past

词汇关系

衍生词

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词源

词源 1

From Middle English fuayle, from Old French fouaille, feuaille (“firewood, kindling”), from feu (“fire”), from Late Latin focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”), whence English focus. Cognate with Spanish fuego (“fire”), and Portuguese fogo (“fire”).

词源 2

From Middle English fuayle, from Old French fouaille, feuaille (“firewood, kindling”), from feu (“fire”), from Late Latin focus (“fire”), from Latin focus (“hearth”), whence English focus. Cognate with Spanish fuego (“fire”), and Portuguese fogo (“fire”).