名詞 petroleum:

1. a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons
   同義詞：crude oil, crude, rock oil, fossil oil

1. Any new source of energy will be welcome, as there is a shortage of petroleum.
   由于石油短缺，任何一種新能源都會(huì)受歡迎。
2. Indonesia is abundant in petroleum deposits.
   印尼的石油蘊(yùn)藏量豐富。
3. Taiwan seems to contain no petroleum.
   臺(tái)灣恐怕沒(méi)有蘊(yùn)藏石油吧！
4. Petroleum can be used to produce various chemical products.
   石油可用于生產(chǎn)多種化學(xué)產(chǎn)品。

pe.tro.le.um

n.Abbr. pet.（名詞）縮寫(xiě) pet.
A thick, flammable, yellow-to-black mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath the earth`s surface, can be separated into fractions including natural gas, gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, fuel and lubricating oils, paraffin wax, and asphalt and is used as raw material for a wide variety of derivative products.
石油：一種粘稠易燃的、顏色從黃到黑的汽體、液體和固態(tài)碳?xì)浠衔锏幕旌衔铮烊淮嬖谟诘乇碇?，可以分離成多種成份，包括天然氣、汽油、揮發(fā)油、煤油、燃料和潤(rùn)滑油、石蠟和瀝青，作為原材料廣泛地用于各種各樣衍生產(chǎn)品中

來(lái)源：
Middle English
中古英語(yǔ)
from Medieval Latin petrôleum
源自 中世紀(jì)拉丁語(yǔ) petrôleum
Latin petra [rock] from Greek
拉丁語(yǔ) petra [巖石] 源自 希臘語(yǔ)
Latin ôleum [oil] * see oil
拉丁語(yǔ) ôleum [石油] *參見(jiàn) oil