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    A gas-guzzler is a car — sometimes another vehicle — that uses a huge amount of petrol. The phrase is informal and mostly American: gas there means gasoline, and to guzzle is to drink in greedy gulps, so the car is pictured as gulping fuel. People say it with a mix of joke and complaint, about old thirsty engines, big SUVs, or anything whose fuel bill hurts. Though actually, school English in Taiwan often teaches petrol, not gas, for 汽油; the set phrase still says gas because it was born in the United States. It names the vehicle, not the driver.

    油老虎(很耗油的車子;這裡的 gas 是汽油,不是瓦斯)

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組成gas (American informal for petrol/gasoline) + guzzler (someone or something that drinks in greedy gulps, from the verb guzzle).

同家族的字

  • guzzleto drink greedily; the car is pictured as drinking fuel
  • gas-guzzlingthe adjective for such a car or engine

原始詞典資料1 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。

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 WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。