石油

Meanings

Etymology

First attested in 1086–1093, in Shen Kuo's Dream Pool Essays, where the oil was used as ink by the author: : Compare petroleum with a nearly identical word-formation.

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Example sentences

• 我们国家不缺石油。

  We are not short of oil in this country.

• 日本的石油依靠进口。

  Japan depends on other countries for oil.

• 日本依賴外國的石油。

  Japan depends on foreign countries for oil.

• 我為一家石油公司工作。

  I work for an oil company.

• 世界上的石油快用完了。

  The world is running out of oil.

• 日本靠阿拉伯国家提供石油。

  Japan relies on Arab countries for oil.

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