gasoline
['gæsə`lin]
n. 汽油

[] 汽油

[] 汽油

1. Our gasoline has been used up.
   汽油完。
2. The car is short of gasoline.
   汽汽油够。
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.
   般情形，每仑汽油税征10元。，布什乡德萨斯州油愿看见口油征税。

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
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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]