| 释义 |
Examples:tung oil, from the Japanese wood-oil tree Aleurites cordata, used in making lacquer—light petroleum product (i.e. gasoline and diesel oil)—burn the midnight oil (idiom); to work continuously night and day—lit. make night as day (idiom); fig. to burn the midnight oil—pour oil on the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation—lit. firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar, and tea—the spongy, white pulp inside the stem of rush plants, used as a wick for oil lamps—add oil to the fire (idiom); fig. to aggravate a situation—fired power plant (i.e. fired by coal, oil or gas)—Chuandong Oil Drilling & Exploration Company (CODEC)—sandalwood (Santalum album), a Nepalese tree producing valuable fragrant oil—Sichuan poached sliced fish in hot chili oil—good Chinese wood-oil tree (Aleurites cordata)—cooking oil that has been used and discarded (and, in China, sometimes illegally recovered from gutters and sewers, reprocessed and sold back restaurants)—Li Siguang (1889-1971), Mongol-born, Japanese trained geologist, prominent in early PRC oil exploration—use the same oil repeatedly for deep frying (a possible health hazard)—essential balm containing menthol, eucalyptus oil etc, used as a mosquirepellant— |