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Gas Air Breathe Kind   [Informal 非正式 Cooking Heating

英语单词 gas
英美音标 英 [ɡæs] 美 [ɡæs]
中文释义 n.煤气;气体;汽油;空话
vt.使吸入毒气;毒(死);给 ... 加汽油
vi.空谈;加汽油
英语例句 (1) Gas is now widely used for cooking and heating.
(2) She lit the gas and gave the coffee another warm.
(3) Hydrogen and oxygen are gases.
(4) Air is a mixture of gases.
(5) I'll refill my cigarette lighter with gas.
(6) He ran out of gas a mile from home.
(7) His long speech was nothing but gas and hot air.
(8) She couldn't face the future, and gassed herself.
(9) You'd better gas up the car.
(10) The girls were still gassing when I left.
中文例句 (1) 现在普遍用煤气烧饭和取暖。
(2) 她点燃煤气,把咖啡重新热了一下。
(3) 氢和氧是气体。
(4) 空气是气体的混合物。
(5) 我将给打火机再灌满汽油。
(6) 他在离家还有一英里的地方把汽油用完了。
(7) 他的长篇大论只是吹牛和空话。
(8) 她对未来感到绝望,用煤气自杀了。
(9) 你最好给车加油。
(10) 我走的时候,那些女孩子们还在胡扯。
vocabulary简明 Matter can be found in solid, liquid, or gas form. The air you breathe in and the carbon dioxide you breathe out, are both examples of gas.
vocabulary扩展 Gasoline is a kind of a gas that you use as car fuel, and when people say they need gas, usually this is the kind they're talking about. They're probably not talking about the digestive kind of gas that causes you to fart. There are poisons that can be released as gas, and you might hear about riot police somewhere gassing people: spraying them with harmful gas. Gas has no fixed shape and changes density easily.
柯林斯解释
The form gases is the plural of the noun. The form gasses is the third person singular of the verb. gases为名词的复数形式,gasses为动词的第三人称单数形式。
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]气体燃料;天然气;煤气 Gas is a substance like air that is neither liquid nor solid and burns easily. It is used as a fuel for cooking and heating.
  • Coal is actually cheaper than gas...

    煤实际上比煤气便宜。

  • Shell signed a contract to develop oil and gas reserves near Archangel.

    壳牌石油公司签订了一份开采阿尔汉格尔附近的石油和天然气资源的合同。

2
[N-VAR 可变名词]气体 A gas is any substance that is neither liquid nor solid, for example oxygen or hydrogen.
  • Helium is a very light gas.

    氦是一种非常轻的气体。

  • ...a huge cloud of gas and dust from the volcanic eruption.

    火山喷发形成的混杂着气体和尘埃的巨大云团

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[N-MASS 物质名词]毒气,瓦斯(可用作武器) Gas is a poisonous gas that can be used as a weapon.
  • ...mustard gas...

    芥子气

  • The problem was that the exhaust gases contain many toxins.

    问题在于废气中含有很多毒素。

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[N-MASS 物质名词](医用)麻醉气 Gas is a gas used for medical purposes, for example to make patients feel less pain or go to sleep during an operation.
  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • ...an anaesthetic gas used by many dentists.

    为许多牙医使用的一种麻醉气

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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](车辆用的)汽油 Gas is the fuel which is used to drive motor vehicles.
  [AM 美]
  • ...a tank of gas.

    一桶汽油

  • ...gas stations.

    加油站

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 petrol
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[VERB 动词]用毒气杀死 To gas a person or animal means to kill them by making them breathe poisonous gas.
  [V n]
  • Her husband ran a pipe from her car exhaust to the bedroom in an attempt to gas her.

    她的丈夫将一根与她的汽车排气管相通的管子导入卧室,企图用毒气将她杀死。

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[N-SING 单数名词]活泼有趣的事;令人愉快的场面 You can describe a situation or event as a gas when it is very lively, amusing, and enjoyable.
  [a N]
  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  [OLD-FASHIONED 过时]
  • It was really a gas to find someone I could talk with.

    找到一个能和我谈得来的人真是一件让人高兴的事。

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See also:
gas chamber
gas mask
greenhouse gas
laughing gas
natural gas
tear gas
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    [PHRASE 短语]加大油门;加速 If you step on the gas when you are driving a vehicle, you go faster.
      [V inflects]
      [mainly AM 主美]
      [INFORMAL 非正式]
      in BRIT, use 英国英语用 step on it

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