petroleum
noun /pəˈtrəʊliəm/
/pəˈtrəʊliəm/
[uncountable]- 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3000万桶精炼石油在储存。
Collocations DictionaryPetroleum is used before these nouns:- exploration
- geology
- reserve
- …
词源late Middle English: from medieval Latin, from Latin petra ‘rock’ (from Greek) + Latin oleum ‘oil’. - The government suspended its supplies of petroleum to the country as a result of the crisis.