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Fuel Latin Material Focus Medieval Legal Term Demand

正面 5234.fuel
英 [fjʊəl]美 ['fjuəl]

背面
释义:
vi. 得到燃料vt. 供以燃料,加燃料n. 燃料;刺激因素
例句:
1. His comments are bound to add fuel to the debate.他的话必将为争论推波助澜。

1. 谐音“费油哦”-----汽车要不断地补充燃料,确实很费油哦。
fuel 燃料来自法语,来自拉丁语focal, 火炉的,焦点的,来自PIE*bha, 照耀,发光,词源同beacon.引申词义燃煤,燃料。
fuelfuel: [14] The notions of ‘fuel’ and ‘fire’ are closely connected etymologically. Fuel comes via Anglo-Norman fuaille from medieval Latin focālia, which was used in legal documents as a term for the ‘right to demand material for making a fire’. It was a derivative of Latin focus ‘fireplace, fire’, which also gave English focus, foyer, and fusillade.=> focus, foyer, fusilladefuel (n.)c. 1200, feuel, feul "fuel, material for burning," also figurative, from Old French foaille "fuel for heating," from Medieval Latin legal term focalia "right to demand material for making fire, right of cutting fuel," from classical Latin focalia "brushwood for fuel," from neuter plural of Latin focalis "pertaining to a hearth," from focus "hearth, fireplace" (see focus (n.)). Figurative use from 1570s. Of food, as fuel for the body, 1876. As "combustible liquid for an internal combustion engine" from 1886. A French derivative is fouailler "woodyard." Fuel-oil is from 1882.fuel (v.)1590s, "feed or furnish with fuel," literal and figurative, from fuel (n.). Intransitive sense "to get fuel" (originally firewood) is from 1880. Related: Fueled; fueling."

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