英语词汇gas的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

gas; gasoline. Though it is also the abbreviation of gasoline, gas is the older of the two words. Gasoline made its debut in the late 19th century when scientists coined it (from gas plus the Latin oleum, “oil,” and ine) to describe the colorless liquid ob- tained by the fractional distillation of petroleum. Gas itself was coined nearly three centuries earlier by Dutch physician and chemist Jean Baptiste van Helmont (1577–1644). Van Helmont thought that he had discovered an occult principle contained in all bodies and named his discovery gas from the German chaos, “chaos.” He had little understanding of the nature of gas- es, and no one knows exactly what sense of the word chaos he had in mind when he coined gas from it. But despite all this chaos, he was cooking with gas, for his invention has become part of almost every language.

词汇	gas
词源	gas; gasoline. Though it is also the abbreviation of gasoline, gas is the older of the two words. Gasoline made its debut in the late 19th century when scientists coined it (from gas plus the Latin oleum, “oil,” and ine) to describe the colorless liquid ob- tained by the fractional distillation of petroleum. Gas itself was coined nearly three centuries earlier by Dutch physician and chemist Jean Baptiste van Helmont (1577–1644). Van Helmont thought that he had discovered an occult principle contained in all bodies and named his discovery gas from the German chaos, “chaos.” He had little understanding of the nature of gas- es, and no one knows exactly what sense of the word chaos he had in mind when he coined gas from it. But despite all this chaos, he was cooking with gas, for his invention has become part of almost every language.
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