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Gas-guzzling describes a car, engine or vehicle that uses a lot of petrol — the adjective twin of . You put it in front of a noun: a gas-guzzling SUV, gas-guzzling engines. The tone is the same informal American scolding-joke: the machine gulps gasoline. News and everyday talk use it when fuel prices sting, or when someone wants to contrast a thirsty old car with a smaller or hybrid one. It is not a kind of cooking-gas machine; the gas is petrol.
很耗油的（形容車子或引擎；這裡的 gas 是汽油）
組成gas (American informal for petrol/gasoline) + guzzling, the -ing form of guzzle, “to drink greedily.”
同家族的字
- gas-guzzlerthe noun for a car that uses this much fuel
- guzzleto drink greedily
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 Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。