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petroleum

noun
/pəˈtrəʊliəm/
/pəˈtrəʊliəm/
[uncountable]
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  1. mineral oil that is found under the ground or the sea and is used to produce petrol, paraffin, diesel oil, etc.石油;原油
    • The government suspended its supplies of petroleum to the country as a result of the crisis.受危机的影响,政府暂停了对那个国家的石油供应。
    • There were still 30 million barrels of refined petroleum in storage.仍有3000万桶精炼石油存储。
    Topics Physics and chemistryc1
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryPetroleum is used before these nouns:
    • exploration
    • geology
    • reserve
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    Word Originlate Middle English: from medieval Latin, from Latin petra ‘rock’ (from Greek) + Latin oleum ‘oil’.

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