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vegetable oil

植物油

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of a large group of oils that are esters of fatty acids and glycerol, obtained from the leaves, fruit, or seeds of plants.

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Examples

  • My father would return late from his job as a cook with the smell of vegetable oil on his shirts—a smell I still associate with the long and strenuous hours he worked.

  • Keep the pan in prime cooking condition with vegetable oil to create a nonstick surface.

  • It’s pre-coated with vegetable oil and cured at high temperatures.

  • A host of companies are working to develop aviation biofuels, but many of these rely on vegetable oil grown especially for the purpose, and its green credentials are a matter of debate.

  • Rub the entire surface of the pan, including the exterior, with vegetable oil, using a soft cloth.

  • The State Department found that with high oil prices, the tar sands would be mined for oil, pipeline or no.

  • Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top.

  • The focus here was on how fast oil would come out of the Canadian fields.

  • Total oil production figures include crude oil, natural gas liquids, and other liquid energy products.

  • On top of oil, the United States produces significantly more natural gas than Saudi Arabia.

  • In pursuing his alchemical researches, he discovered Prussian blue, and the animal oil which bears his name.

  • Movement to know that she was attired in appropriate costume—short frock, biped continuations and a mannish oil-skin hat.

  • A very small amount may be present after ingestion of large quantities of cod-liver oil or other fats.

  • Grain merchants and vegetable dealers jostled each other in the streets themselves.

  • Clodd tells us that one cubic inch of rotten stone contains 41 thousand million vegetable skeletons of diatoms.