gallon
英['g?l?n]
美['ɡ?l?n]
- n. 加侖（容量單位）
- n. (Gallon)人名；(法、意、瑞典)加隆
詞態變化
復數:?gallons;
助記提示
1. 音譯“加侖”。
中文詞源
gallon 加侖（液量單位）
詞源不詳。可能來自PIE*gel, 膨脹，鼓起，詞源同dolphin, calf. 即鼓起來的一個容器。-on, 大詞后綴。
英文詞源
- gallon
- gallon: [13] English acquired gallon from Old Northern French galon. This was a descendant of medieval Latin gallēta, a word for a ‘jug’ which was also used as a unit of measurement for wine. It may have been of Celtic origin. An early modern English dialect form of gallon was gawn, which added to tree produced gantry [16], originally a ‘wooden stand for barrels’.
=> gantry - gallon (n.)
- English measure of capacity (containing four quarts), usually for liquids, late 13c., from Old North French galon, corresponding to Old French jalon, name of a liquid measure roughly equivalent to a modern gallon," which is related to (perhaps augmentative of) jale "bowl," from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin diminutive form galleta "bucket, pail," also "a measure of wine," a word of unknown origin, perhaps from Gaulish galla "vessel."
雙語例句
- 1. The price of petrol is coming down by four pence a gallon.
- 汽油的價格每加侖降了4便士。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Unleaded gasoline rose more than a penny a gallon.
- 無鉛汽油每加侖漲了1分多。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. a five-gallon jug of beer
- 五加侖裝的啤酒罐
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. The imperial gallon is not the same size as the US one.
- 英制的加侖與美制的容量不同.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. This car runs 5 miles on a gallon of gasoline.
- 這部汽車一加侖汽油可以行駛五英里.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》