Sir Richmond Hardy? In the papers. What is it?" "Fuel." "Of course! The Fuel Commission. Stupid of me! We certainly can't afford to have you ill." "I AM ill. But you can't afford to have me absent from that Commission." "Your technical knowledge--" "Technical knowledge be damned! Those men mean to corner the national fuel supply.英文原著 · 《The Secret Places of the Heart》
[5] The quantity of fuel here mentioned, though it certainly is almost incredibly small, was nevertheless determined from the results of actual experiments. A particular account of these experiments will be given in my Essay on the Management of Heat and the Economy of Fuel.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
In regard to the first of these subjects of inquiry, it is quite certain that the heat which is generated in the combustion of the fuel exists under TWO perfectly distinct and very different forms. One part of it is COMBINED with the smoke, vapour, and heated air which rise from the burning fuel, and goes off with them into the upper regions of the atmosphere; while the other part, which appears to be UNCOMBINED, or, as some ingenious philosophers have supposed, combined only with light, is sent off from the fire in rays in all possible directions.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
We whose Names are underwritten certify, that we have been present frequently when experiments have been made to determine the expence of Fuel in cooking for the Poor in the Public Kitchen of the Military Workhouse at Munich; and that when the ordinary dinner has been prepared for ONE THOUSAND persons, the expense for Fuel has not amounted to quite twelve creutzers (less than 4 1/2d. sterling).英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
The results of these experiments show, in a striking manner, how important it is to the saving of fuel in baking bread, to keep the oven continually going, without ever letting it cool: for in the first experiment when the oven was cold, when it was begun to be heated, the quantity of wood required to heat it was 366 1/2 lbs.; but in the sixth experiment, after the oven had been well warmed in the preceding experiments, the quantity of fuel required was only 74 1/2 lbs.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
If now, to this quantity of fuel,-- -- 0.09023 lb. we add that necessary for heating the loaf to the temperature of boiling water, as above determined, -- -- -- 0.07335 lb. -------- this gives the total quantity of fuel necessary for baking one of these loaves of bread,-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 0.16353 lb.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
And the pure money grab, while intoxicating in theory, never seems to leave anyone any better off than they were the moment they had the big idea in the first place. because they are still stuck here, bound to this place and its limitations of fuel, space, and class struggle.美剧 · 《Billions》
The fines, the bonuses, the jet fuel to Nova Scotia, you owe me 1.195 million dollars.美剧 · 《Billions》
Well, then take it in, man. Let it fuel you. Then fight on.美剧 · 《Billions》
I think we might not run on the same kind of fuel.美剧 · 《Billions》