| 单词 | oil trade |
| 释义 | > as lemmasoil trade oil trade n. trade in oil or oils (also figurative); esp. the international trade in petroleum and petroleum products. ΚΠ 1755 C. Charke Narr. Life 73 Links and Flambeaux are a Commodity belonging to the Oil-Trade, at least generally sold in Shops of that Kind. 1786 N.-Y. Packet 2 Feb. What a deep scheme of the inhabitants of Nantucket, by a feigned separation from the United States, to recover their oil trade with this country. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xvix. 190 During the progress of this keen encounter, the vessel Chadband, being merely engaged in the oil trade, gets aground, and waits to be floated off. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly II. xv. 231 A face which..conveyed the impression of a Particular Baptist who was also in the oil trade. 1909 Daily Chron. 19 May 3/3 An industrious hard-working young man..drifts into the oil trade with three or four other men. 1969 N.Y. Times 9 Feb. iii. 14/3 Liquified natural gas..will come into its own in the remaining months of this year as an important aspect of the world oil trade. < as lemmas |
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