有关加油站、加油机的英语

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Filling station

A petrol station, filling station, gas station, fueling station, service station, garage, gasbar, petrol pump or petrol bunk (India) is a facility which sells fuel and lubricants for motor vehicles. The most common fuels sold are petrol (known as gasoline in the United States and Canada, although the term petrol is also understood in Canada) or diesel fuel.

Fuel dispensers are used to pump petrol/gasoline, diesel, CNG, CGH2, HCNG, LPG, LH2, ethanol fuel, biofuels like biodiesel, kerosene, or other types of fuel into vehicles. Fuel dispensers are also known as bowsers (in some parts of Australia).[1], petrol pumps (in Commonwealth countries), or gas pumps (in North America).

Many filling stations also have small convenience stores, and some also sell propane or butane and have added shops to their primary business. Conversely, some chain stores—supermarkets, discount superstores, warehouse clubs, and traditional convenience stores—offer filling stations on premises.

The term "gas station" is mostly used in the US and in Canada, where the fuel is known as "gasoline" or "gas". In some regions of Canada, the term "gas bar" is used. Elsewhere in the English-speaking world, mainly in the Commonwealth, the fuel is known as "petrol", and the term "petrol station" or "petrol pump" is used. In the United Kingdom and South Africa "garage" is still commonly used, even though the petrol station may have no service/maintenance facilities which would justify this description. Similarly, in Australia, the term service station ("servo") describes any petrol station. In Japanese English, it is called a "gasoline stand". In Indian English, it is called a petrol pump or a petrol bunk. In some regions of America and Australia, filling stations have a mechanic on duty, but this is uncommon in other parts of the world.

Most filling stations are built in a similar manner, with most of the fueling installation underground, pump machines in the forecourt and a point of service inside a building. Single or multiple fuel tanks are usually deployed underground. Local regulations and environmental concerns may require a different method, with some stations storing their fuel in container tanks, entrenched surface tanks or unprotected fuel tanks deployed on the surface. Fuel is usually offloaded from a tanker truck into the tanks through a separate valve, located on the filling station's perimeter. Fuel from the tanks travels to the dispenser pumps through underground pipes. For every fuel tank, direct access must be available at all times. Most tanks can be accessed through a service canal directly from the forecourt.

Older stations tend to use a separate pipe for every kind of available fuel and for every dispenser. Newer stations may employ a single pipe for every dispenser. This pipe houses a number of smaller pipes for the individual fuel types. Fuel tanks, dispenser and nozzles used to fill car tanks employ vapor recovery systems, which prevents releases of vapor into the atmosphere with a system of pipes. The exhausts are placed as high as possible. A vapor recovery system may be employed at the exhaust pipe. This system collects the vapors, liquifies them and releases them back into the lowest grade fuel tank available.

The forecourt is the part of a filling station where vehicles are refueled. Fuel dispensers are placed on concrete plinths, as a precautionary measure. Additional elements may be employed, including metal barriers. The area around the fuel dispensers must have a drainage system. Since fuel sometimes spills on the ground, as little of it as possible should penetrate the soil. Drainage canals in the vicinity of the fuel pumps drain all fluids into a waste container.

If a filling station allows customers to pay at the register, the data from the dispensers may be transmitted via RS232 or ethernet to the point of sale, usually inside the filling station's building, and fed into the station's cash register operating system. The cash register system gives a limited control over the fuel dispenser, and is usually limited to allowing the clerks to turn the pumps on and off, though the process is usually automatic. A separate system is used to monitor the fuel tank's status and quantities of fuel. With sensors directly in the fuel tank, the data is fed to a terminal in the back room, where it can be downloaded or printed out. Sometimes this method is bypassed, with the fuel tank data transmitted directly into an external database.

Some filling stations include tire air pump and automatic car wash facilities with vacuum cleaners.

2008年北京奥运会的举行让全中国老老少少都兴起了学英语的热潮，而时隔两年之后，正在举行的上海世博会让全国人名学英语的热情再一次被点燃。事实上我们国家的教育一直在重视英语的普及，因为英语是目前世界上通用的官方语言。在公司迅速发展的今天，大家不妨一起来学习一些有关公司主打产品“税控燃油加油机”的英语知识。

说起“加油机”，那肯定要从“加油站”说起，大家在网上词典能查到的“加油站”的英语解释最多的应该是“gas station”，其实它还有“petrol station”、“filling station”、“fueling station”、“service station”、“garage”、“gasbar”、“petrol pump”甚至“petrol bunk”等等表述方式，只不过在不同的国家和地区大家使用的习惯不同，我们最熟悉的“gas station”这个词主要用于美国和加拿大的大部分地区，在加拿大的一些地方，“gas bar”也用于指加油站，这是因为在美国和加拿大，汽油的英语表述是“gas”或者“gasoline”；在其他的大部分英联邦国家，汽油被叫做“petrol”, 而加油站自然也多被称为“petrol station”或者“petrol pump”,而在英国和南非，“garage”这个词依然被广泛使用代指加油站，尽管现在的加油站有的并不提供维修服务；类似的，在澳大利亚，“service station” 泛指所有类型的加油站，不管提不提供其他服务；日本人在英语中则更喜欢把加油站表述为“gasoline stand”