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Asphalt is the black, sticky stuff used to make the top of a road. Hot, it is soft; when it cools, it goes hard. In American English people also call the road surface itself asphalt. You can use it as a verb: to asphalt a drive. Though actually, the black and the mix with small stones are not always kept apart in everyday talk; a scientist may say for the pure black stuff. In British English, many people say tarmac for the road surface instead. It smells strong in hot weather. It is an ordinary, practical word — not fancy.
柏油（台灣口語；中國大陸較常說瀝青）
組成From Greek asphaltos, “asphalt, bitumen,” through Late Latin asphaltum. It pushed out Old English eorþteoru (“earth-tar”).
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
asphaltnoun/ˈæʃfɑlt/
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A sticky, black to brown and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid, composed almost entirely of bitumen with small mineral particles, that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits.
- The mining of asphalt was big business in this area in the early twentieth century.
- Felltham wrote in the beginning of the 17th century of the “Bitumated walls of Babylon;” the source of its supply, the fountains of Is, on a tributary of the Euphrates, still yields asphalt.
asphaltverb/ˈæʃfɑlt/
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To pave with asphalt.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。