英语单词

gallon是什么意思

gallon

英 ['gælən] 美 ['ɡælən]
  • n. 加仑(容量单位)
  • n. (Gallon)人名;(法、意、瑞典)加隆

助记提示


1. 音译“加仑”。

中文词源


gallon 加仑(液量单位)

词源不详。可能来自PIE*gel, 膨胀,鼓起,词源同dolphin, calf. 即鼓起来的一个容器。-on, 大词后缀。

英文词源


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."

双语例句


1. The price of petrol is coming down by four pence a gallon.
汽油的价格每加仑降了4便士。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Unleaded gasoline rose more than a penny a gallon.
无铅汽油每加仑涨了1分多。

来自柯林斯例句

3. a five-gallon jug of beer
五加仑装的啤酒罐

来自《权威词典》

4. The imperial gallon is not the same size as the US one.
英制的加仑与美制的容量不同.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. This car runs 5 miles on a gallon of gasoline.
这部汽车一加仑汽油可以行驶五英里.

来自《简明英汉词典》

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