an internal-combustion engine in which heat produced by the compression of air in the cylinder is used to ignite the fuel
内燃机,柴油机。[as modifier]
[mass noun]a heavy petroleum fraction used as fuel in diesel engines
柴油
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eleven litres of diesel .11升柴油。
Rudolf (Christian Karl) (1858-1913 ), French-born German engineer, inventor of the diesel engine. In 1892 he patented a design for a new, more efficient internal-combustion engine and developed it, exhibiting the prototype in 1897.
狄塞尔,鲁道夫(·克里斯琴·卡尔)(1858-1913, 法国出生的德国工程师,发明了柴油机;1892年他为一项新的效率更高的内燃机的设计申请了专利,并进行了研制,于1897年展出其原型)。
"late 19th cent.: named after R.