fuel

vi. 得到燃料

vt. 供以燃料，加燃料

n. 燃料；刺激因素

中文词源

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。

fuel: fuel: [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, fusillade
fuel (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.

1. 谐音“费油哦”-----汽车要不断地补充燃料，确实很费油哦。

2. Investigators say that a fuel explosion may have caused the crash.: 调查员说燃料爆炸有可能是失事的根源。

3. The rationale of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel is inevitably being questioned.: 对核废料进行再加工的理由不可避免地受到了质疑。