记忆方法
将“kerosene”与“ker-（燃烧的火）+ os-（光）+ ene（化合物后缀）”结合起来记忆。想象燃烧的火焰发出光芒，象征这种燃料（煤油）曾用于灯油，发出光亮。
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词族 · kerosene
词形变化
中文词源
kerosene 煤油，火油
由19世纪加拿大地质学家Abraham Gesner根据希腊语创造出来的一个词，来自希腊语keros,蜡，蜂蜡，词源同cere,ceraceous,cerumen.-ene,化学名词后缀。
英语词源
- kerosene (n.)
- 1852, coined irregularly by Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner (1797-1864), who discovered how to distill it c. 1846, from Greek keros "wax" (see cere) + chemical suffix -ene. So called because it contains paraffin (hence the British English name, paraffin oil).
权威例句
- 1. The air reeked of kerosene and huge aircraft rumbled overhead.
- 空气中散发着煤油味，巨型飞机在头顶隆隆地响着。
- 2. A leakage of kerosene has polluted water supplies.
- 泄漏的煤油污染了水源。
- 3. It is like putting out a fire with kerosene.
- 这就像用煤油灭火.
- 4. Instead of electricity, there were kerosene lanterns.
- 没有电, 有煤油灯.
- 5. With a flash, the kerosene lamp went out.
- 煤油灯闪了闪就灭了.