gas
n
(pl gases; US also gasses)
1 [C, U] air-like substance (ie not a solid or liquid) 氣體
Hydrogen and oxygen are gases. 氫和氧都是氣體.
Air is a mixture of gases. 空氣是混合氣體.
[attrib 作定語]
agas balloon, ie filled with gas 氣球.
2 [U]
(a) inflammable gas or mixture of gases used as fuel for heating, lighting or cooking 易燃氣體, 混合氣體(作取暖、 照明或烹調用的燃料)
Is your central heating gas or electricity? 你們的集中供熱設備是煤氣的還是用電的?
Light the gas/Turn the gas on and we'll have a cup of tea. 點上煤氣, 咱們沏杯茶吧.
butane/calor/coal/natural gas 丁烷氣[罐裝石油氣/煤氣/天然氣]
cook on a low/medium/high gas, ie on a gas cooker 在微火[中火/大火]上烹調(在煤氣爐上)
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a gas cooker, lighter (ie cigarette lighter), oven, ring, stove, ie using gas as fuel 煤氣爐、 氣體打火機、 煤氣烤箱、 煤氣爐環形噴火頭、 煤氣爐.
(b) gas (eg nitrous oxide) or mixture of gases used as an anaesthetic in surgery and dentistry 外科和牙科用作麻醉劑的氣體(如一氧化二氮)或氣體混合物
I was given gas when they pulled my tooth out. 給我拔牙時用了一氧化二氮.
Did you have gas or an injection? 你是用的麻醉氣還是打的麻醉針?
(c) poisonous gas (eg mustard gas) used in warfare (戰爭用的)毒氣(如芥子氣)
[attrib 作定語]
a gas attack 毒氣攻擊.
3 [U] (US infml 口) = petrol.
4 [U] (fig derog 比喻, 貶) empty talk; boasting 空談; 吹牛
His long speech was nothing but gas and hot air. 他的長篇大論只是吹牛和空話.
5 (idm 習語) step on the gas => step1. gas, v (-ss-)
1 [Tn] cause (sb) to breathe poisonous gas 使(某人)吸入毒氣
He was badly gassed in the war. 他在戰爭中深受毒氣傷害.
She couldn't face the future, and gassed herself, ie killed herself with gas. 她對未來感到絕望, 用煤氣自殺了.
2 [I, Ipr] ~ (about sth) (infml derog 口, 貶) talk for a long time without saying much that is useful 空談; 瞎扯.
It's not like her to have missed two days of classes.
缺課兩天不太象她的作風。
They had to work inside the ship, cutting away old metal, fixing new metal plates, drilling holes, laying electrical and phone wires and fixing new pipes for water and steam.