加油（動作）
把那塊「會燒的燃料」變成動作：把它加進機器裡。這是名詞最直接的動詞化——名詞是那東西，動詞就是把那東西灌進去。
refuel a vehicle · verb · B1
To put fuel into a vehicle, or to fill a vehicle with fuel.
加油 / 加燃料
核心畫面
You can picture fuel as the stuff you feed to a fire or an engine to keep it going — coal, gas, oil, wood: burn it and out comes heat, light, or power. Everything else is that same picture in motion: putting that stuff in (fuelling a car), or, as a metaphor, pouring something onto a feeling so it flares up the way a fire does when you throw on more wood.
可以把 fuel 想成你餵給火或引擎、好讓它一直燒下去的東西——煤、瓦斯、油、木柴：燒了就生出熱、光或動力。其他意思…更多收起
可以把 fuel 想成你餵給火或引擎、好讓它一直燒下去的東西——煤、瓦斯、油、木柴：燒了就生出熱、光或動力。其他意思都是同一個畫面在動：把這東西加進去（替車子加油），或者當比喻用，把某樣東西澆到一股情緒上，讓它像往火裡多丟柴一樣猛地竄起來。From the picture
助長·加劇（比喻）
把「往火裡添柴」整個搬成比喻：情緒或壞局面被當成一團火，你再加東西進去，它就燒得更旺。和加油是同一個動作，只是這次餵的不是引擎，而是一股氣氛或衝突。
intensify a feeling · verb · B1
To make a feeling or a bad situation grow stronger or worse.
加劇 / 助長
Also in this word
combustible material · noun · B1
Something like coal, gas, oil, or wood that you burn to make heat, light, or power.
燃料
原始詞典資料5 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。
fuelnoun/ˈfjuːəl/
- 1
Substance consumed to provide energy through combustion, or through chemical or nuclear reaction.
- More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
- In a press release, CARB expanded on their decision. "The LCFS reduces air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by setting a declining carbon intensity target for transportation fuels used in California; producers that don't meet established benchmarks buy credits from those that do. This system has generated $4 billion in annual private sector investment toward a cleaner transportation sector."
- 2
Substance that provides nourishment for a living organism; food.
- A little fuel to get down the mountain.
- 3
Something that stimulates, encourages or maintains an action.
- His books were fuel for the revolution.
- Money is the fuel for economy.
fuelverb/ˈfjuːəl/
- 1
To provide with fuel.
- […] Lieutenant Hirsch appeared with a sheaf of signals in his hand. He took these from the young man and read them through. Mostly they dealt with routine matters of the fuelling and victualling, but one from the Third Naval Member’s office was unexpected.
- The workings now employ ten twin-units, which are fuelled at Hornsey but return to Cambridge diesel depot for their weekly maintenance; [...].
- 2
To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater.
- There were times, during the first two years of the Biden presidency, when I came close to forgetting about it all: the taunts and the provocations; the incitements and the resentments; the disorchestrated reasoning; the verbal incontinence; the press conferences fueled by megalomania, vengeance, and a soupçon of hydroxychloroquine.
- One detail that has fueled speculation for over a decade is the tyre tracks, which show the Highlander accelerated as it went down the embankment rather than braking.
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。