核心畫面
Think of the big plastic milk you carry home from the shop in one hand — eight pints, heavy enough that you feel it. That is a gallon: a fixed measure of liquid, but a large one. The size is what makes the word useful twice over.
gallon 可以想成超市裡那種一大壺牛奶:八品脫,單手提起來會有點沉的份量。它是個確定的單位(英國一加侖約 4.5…更多收起
gallon 可以想成超市裡那種一大壺牛奶:八品脫,單手提起來會有點沉的份量。它是個確定的單位(英國一加侖約 4.55 公升,美國約 3.79 公升,同一個字兩種大小),但一種想法是,這個字給人的感覺重點不在刻度精不精準,而在「一大壺、拿得動但很有份量」——正是這個「大壺」的感覺,讓它後來也能拿來講「多到誇張」。原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Gallonname
- 1
A surname.
gallonnoun/ˈɡælən/
- 1
A unit of volume, equivalent to eight pints
- 2
exactly 4.54609 liters; an imperial gallon
- 3
231 cubic inches or approximately 3.785 liters for liquids (a "U.S. liquid gallon")
- 4
one-eighth of a U.S. bushel or approximately 4.405 liters for dry goods (a "U.S. dry gallon").
- 5
informalA large quantity (of any liquid).
- The pipe burst and gallons of water flooded into the kitchen.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。