oiler

oiler — 名詞

1. someone whose job is to put oil onto the moving parts of engines, machines, or o

1.名詞C1
釋義

加油工人

負責替機器加潤滑油的工人

someone whose job is to put oil onto the moving parts of engines, machines, or other equipment so that they keep working smoothly.

例句

Marcus worked as an oiler in the ship's engine room for nearly twelve years.

Marcus 在這艘船的機房當加油工人，前後將近十二年。

work as an oiler (job title)

The factory hired two oilers to keep the spinning machines running through the night shift.

工廠請了兩名加油工人，讓紡織機在夜班也能順利運轉。

同義詞
  • lubricator

    more formal; can refer to either a person or a device, so context matters.

  • greaser

    informal; sometimes pejorative outside engineering contexts.

用法筆記

Subject is usually a person treated as a junior or specialist member of an engineering crew, especially on ships, in factories, or on the railways. Distinguish from sense 2: this sense always refers to a person, never to a tool.

常見錯誤

❌I bought an oiler at the hardware store to lubricate my bicycle.' (when meaning the tool)
✅I bought an oilcan at the hardware store to lubricate my bicycle.
💡sense 1 'oiler' is the worker; the small container is usually called an oilcan in everyday English.

2. a small container or hand tool, often with a long thin spout, that holds oil and

2.名詞C1
釋義

油壺；注油器

用來滴油潤滑的小型手動工具

a small container or hand tool, often with a long thin spout, that holds oil and is used to drip oil onto squeaky hinges, locks, bicycle chains, and similar parts.

例句

Grandpa kept a brass oiler on the workbench for the squeaky kitchen door.

爺爺在工作檯上放了一個銅製油壺，用來對付廚房那扇會吱嘎叫的門。

concrete object on a surface

Maya squeezed a few drops from the oiler onto the rusty bicycle chain.

Maya 用注油器在生鏽的腳踏車鏈條上滴了幾滴油。

squeeze [drops] from the oiler

同義詞
  • oilcan

    the most common everyday word for this small container.

  • lubricator

    more technical; covers both small hand tools and larger built-in oiling devices.

用法筆記

Subject or object is always an inanimate hand tool, often described by material (brass, copper, plastic) or by spout shape. Distinguish from sense 1: this sense never refers to a person. In everyday speech, many speakers prefer 'oilcan' for the same object.

常見錯誤

❌The oiler poured a few drops onto the hinges.' (if you mean the tool, not a worker)
✅A few drops from the oiler fell onto the hinges.
💡using 'the oiler' as an active subject usually points readers toward sense 1 (the person).

3. a large ship, often part of a navy's support fleet, whose main job is to carry f

3.名詞C2
釋義

海上加油艦

在海上替其他船艦補給燃油的軍用油輪

a large ship, often part of a navy's support fleet, whose main job is to carry fuel oil and pump it across to other ships while they are still at sea.

例句

The fleet oiler met the destroyer two hundred miles off the coast of Okinawa.

這艘艦隊加油艦在沖繩外海約兩百英里處與驅逐艦會合。

fleet oiler (compound)

Sailors on the oiler worked through the storm to keep the carrier topped up with fuel.

海上加油艦上的水手在風暴中持續作業，好讓航空母艦的油箱保持滿載。

同義詞
  • tanker

    broader; any ship carrying liquid cargo, not always for refueling other ships.

  • fleet tanker

    near-synonym in British naval English for a fleet oiler.

  • replenishment ship

    more formal; covers ships that resupply fuel, food, and ammunition.

用法筆記

Common in military and shipping writing; often appears in the compound 'fleet oiler'. Distinguish from sense 1 (the person) and sense 2 (the small hand tool): only this sense names a vessel and is usually preceded by 'the' plus a navy or fleet reference.

常見錯誤

❌The oiler poured fuel into the small boat.' (sounds like a worker is pouring fuel)
✅The oiler pumped fuel across to the small boat at sea.
💡for the ship sense, prefer verbs like 'pump', 'refuel', 'resupply' to make the vessel reading clear.