| 词汇 | petrol-station |
| 释义 | petrol station noun[ C ] UKuk /ˈpet.rəl ˌsteɪ.ʃən/ us /ˈpet.rəl ˌsteɪ.ʃən/(also mainly UKfilling station); (USgas station) A2 a place where fuel is sold for road vehicles, often with a small shop 加油站 Patrick Strattner/GettyImages On the road: petrol stations, garages & repair shops body shop bowser breaker's yard bunk car wash detail shop filling station garage gas gas (something) up gas station inspection pit lube job MOT petrol bunk service service station servo truck stop Examples of petrol stationpetrol station The petrolstation is the branded building par ex cellence, though it is hard to see quite why. The comparison between the petrolstation and the parish church is perhaps far-fetched. Of course, a petrolstation, a fast-food outlet and a budget hotel do not make a community. The modern petrolstation is not a single building but a non-hierarchical collection of separate objects. The main occupations are : drivers, tractor drivers, petrolstation workers, irrigation workers (men and women), weeders (men and women), gardeners and loaders. At the heart of the cluster, like a parish church in a country village, stands the petrolstation. From an architectural point of view, it isn't the branding itself that makes the petrolstation interesting, but the standardization of form and building technology that branding encourages. The petrolstation has become a settled vernacular building type and it has achieved this not through invention or original design but through a gradual process of evolution. The petrolstation that gets your custom is the next one after the needle touches empty, no matter which company owns it or supplies it with petrol. There has even been an explosion - we have seen pictures of it - in a petrolstation. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English All those facilities can be provided only if the owner of the petrolstation knows that he will get a fixed price for petrol. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The petrolstation opened 24 hours a day to try to make a living. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have two businesses, a petrolstation and an engineering business. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I said that, unlike the petrolstation, 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 the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That petrolstation is just 400 m from the police station. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of petrol station 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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