oil 1 S2 W1 / ɔɪl / 名词

1 natural substance under the ground [不可数名词] the thick dark liquid from under the ground from which petrol is produced → crude :

a rise in the price of oil

the importance of protecting our oil supplies

an oil refinery (= factory where oil is made purer )

2 fuel [不可数名词] a smooth thick liquid that is used to make machines run easily or is burned to produce heat :

Check the oil level in your car every week.

The heating system runs on oil.

3

liquid from plants [可数和不可数名词] a smooth thick liquid made from plants or some animals, used especially in cooking or for making beauty products :

cooking oil

olive/vegetable/sunflower etc oil

coconut oil shampoo

Fish oils are supposed to help relieve arthritis. → castor oil , cod-liver oil , linseed oil

4 paint oils [复数形式] paints that contain oil 同义词 oil paints

in oils

I usually paint in oils (= using oils ) .

→ burn the midnight oil at burn 1 ( 20 ) , → pour oil on troubled waters at pour ( 8 )

COLLOCATIONS

动词

discover/find oil Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938. | How does a company go about finding oil and getting it from the ground?

hit/strike oil (= to find oil when you are digging for it ) The engineers drilled down a few hundred metres until they hit oil. | The Ohio Oil Company struck oil on May 3rd.

drill for oil Plans to drill for oil off the New South Wales coast have recently been revived.

produce oil (= to have natural areas of oil, and take it out of the ground ) The US does not produce enough oil to meet its own needs.

extract oil formal (= to take oil out of an area ) the difficult process of extracting the oil

形容词

crude oil (= oil in its natural state ) the price of crude oil

refined oil (= oil that has been treated by an industrial process ) They had exported refined oil.

offshore oil (= found under the sea, not far from the coast ) The company has the technical capabilities to produce offshore oil.

heavy/light oil 2,000 barrels of heavy oil are produced a day. | The oil corporation an 名词 ced the discovery of another field of light oil.

oil + NOUN

oil prices The increase in oil prices has prompted warnings of a global recession.

the oil industry He works in in the oil industry.

an oil company YPF was the state oil company in Argentina.

an oil producer (= a country which produces oil ) The Soviet Union is the world’s largest oil producer.

an oil refinery (= a place where oil is treated by an industrial process ) an oil refinery in Perth

oil production a fall in US oil production

an oil spill (= situation in which oil comes out of a ship or other container into the sea ) a terrible oil spill near the Shetland Islands

an oil crisis (= situation in which there is not enough oil, and the price of oil is very high ) The world is facing an oil crisis.

an oil rig (= structure on land or in the sea with equipment for getting oil out of the ground ) an oil rig in the North Sea