| 单词 | petrol station |
| 释义 | petrol station noun[C] UKuk/ˈpet.rəl ˌsteɪ.ʃən/us/ˈpet.rəl ˌsteɪ.ʃən/(also mainlyUKfilling station);(USgas station)A2 aplacewherefuelissoldforroadvehicles, often with asmallshop 加油站 Patrick Strattner/GettyImages On the road: petrol stations, garages & repair shops
Examplesofpetrol stationpetrol station Thepetrolstationis the branded building par ex cellence, though it is hard to see quite why. From theCambridge English Corpus The comparison between thepetrolstationand the parish church is perhaps far-fetched. From theCambridge English Corpus Of course, apetrolstation, a fast-food outlet and a budget hotel do not make a community. From theCambridge English Corpus The modernpetrolstationis not a single building but a non-hierarchical collection of separate objects. From theCambridge English Corpus The main occupations are : drivers, tractor drivers,petrolstationworkers, irrigation workers (men and women), weeders (men and women), gardeners and loaders. From theCambridge English Corpus At the heart of the cluster, like a parish church in a country village, stands thepetrolstation. From theCambridge English Corpus From an architectural point of view, it isn't the branding itself that makes thepetrolstationinteresting, but the standardization of form and building technology that branding encourages. From theCambridge English Corpus Thepetrolstationhas become a settled vernacular building type and it has achieved this not through invention or original design but through a gradual process of evolution. From theCambridge English Corpus Thepetrolstationthat gets your custom is the next one after the needle touches empty, no matter which company owns it or supplies it with petrol. From theCambridge English Corpus There has even been an explosion - we have seen pictures of it - in apetrolstation. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English All those facilities can be provided only if the owner of thepetrolstationknows that he will get a fixed price for petrol. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Thepetrolstationopened 24 hours a day to try to make a living. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They have two businesses, apetrolstationand an engineering business. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I said that, unlike thepetrolstation, the engineering business did not need prominent premises, and it does not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Thatpetrolstationis just 400 m from the police station. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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