ton

英 [tʌn] 美[tʌn]

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近义词ocean

n. 吨；很多，大量
n. (Ton)人名；(西、俄、捷、荷)托恩；(柬)敦；(东南亚国家华语)通；(朝)敦

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中文词源

ton 吨

来自 tun 拼写变体，词源由酒桶，木桶引申为专有名词吨。

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复数: tons;

助记提示

1. 音译“吨”。

英文词源

ton: ton: [14] Ton originated as a variant of tun ‘barrel’ [OE]. At first it was used for a unit of capacity, equal to the space occupied by a tun of wine, but by the end of the 15th century we find it being applied to a unit of weight. Tun itself was acquired from medieval Latin tunna, which was probably of Gaulish origin. Another of its descendants was Old French tonne, whose diminutive tonel was borrowed into English as tunnel [15]. This was originally used for a ‘tubular net for catching birds’, and then for a ‘chimney flue’ or ‘funnel’. It was not applied to an ‘underground passage’ until as recently as the late 18th century.
=> tun, tunnel
ton (n.1): "measure of weight," late 14c. The quantity necessary to fill a tun or cask of wine, thus identical to tun (q.v.). The spelling difference became firmly established 18c. Ton of bricks in the colloquial figurative sense of what you come down on someone like is from 1884.
ton (n.2): "prevailing mode, style, fashionable ways," 1769, from French ton (see tone (n.)).

双语例句

1. Every year they panned about a ton and a half of gold.: 每年他们淘出大约1.5吨金子。

2. The ship was permitted to tie up in Bos-ton harbour.: 该船获准在波士顿港口停泊。

3. Getting rid of rubbish can cost $100 a ton.: 清除垃圾每吨要花费100美元。

4. A seven-ton lorry slewed across their path.: 一辆7吨的货车侧滑到了一侧。

5. He'sstored away nearly one ton of potatoes.: 他已经储备了近1吨马铃薯。

英英释意

1. a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds

2. a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds

考试真题

As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China's wheat crop, the world's largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997.

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

There are tons of on-campus job opportunities, and as a student, you’ll automatically be given hiring priority.

It produces about two million tons of salt that is shipped to more than 1,500 places in the northeastern United States.

Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk ( ' , 垃圾 ) and should really carry warning labels? It's not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by.

Just make sure you're getting real food without tons of added salt or sugar.

With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.

But a new study finds that there's another group of adolescents who are in nearly as much danger of experiencing the same psychiatric symptoms: teens who use tons of media, don't get enough sleep and have a sedentary ( ' , 不爱活动的 ) lifestyle.

Amazon plants, for instance, hold more than 100 billion metric tons of carbon, equal to 15 years of tailpipe and chimney emissions.

billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year - making forests the leading source of greenhouse gases

Each burning season in the Amazon, fires deliberately set by frontier settlers and developers hurl up almost half a billion metric tons of carbon a year, placing Brazil among the top five contributors to greenhouse gases in the world.

My family has tons of camping gear.

with fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.

Almost half of that winds up in landfills, and up to 12 million tons pollute the oceans.

However, I soon discover that much has changed since the days of disturbing reports of camps among tons of rubbish.

Humans produce more than 300 million tons of plastic every year.

That's 219kg of steel-more tan a fifth of a ton and more than 40 times the cat's weight.

The Chinese ministry of agriculture finds that between 2005—when the government started a soil-testing program that/which gives specific fertilizer recommendations to farmers—and 2011, fertilizer use dropped by 7.7 million tons.

While restaurants throw away tons of food each year, much of it remains inaccessible because of locked garbage containers, health regulations, or business policies.

实用场景例句

(informal)What have you got in this bag? It weighs a ton!: 你这口袋里装的是什么？重死了！

They've got tons of money.: 他们腰缠万贯。

I've still got tons to do.: 我还有许多事要做。

He was caught doing a ton.: 他被发现以每小时100英里的速度行车。

Disappointment hit her like a ton of bricks.: 她大失所望。

They came down on him like a ton of bricks (= criticized him very severely) .: 他们狠狠批评了他一顿。

Hundreds of tons of oil spilled into the sea...: 数百吨石油溢出流入大海。

Getting rid of rubbish can cost $100 a ton.: 清除垃圾每吨要花费 100 美元。

If you do something awful they all come down on you like a ton of bricks.: 如果你做了错事，他们全都会对你大发雷霆。

Wherever you live, are there are a ton of local bands dying for an audience.: 不管你住在哪里, 都会有很多当地的乐队渴望有观众.

The tolal reserves is about 2×10 ^ 6 ton.: 已知储量近2亿吨.

A parcel weighing half a ton has just been delivered.: 一个半吨重的包裹刚刚递送出去.

LME copper traded at $ 7, 439 a ton, up 3.4 % on the previous afternoon kerb.: 伦敦金属交易所铜的交易价格为每吨7439美元, 比前一个下午的场外交易价格上涨了3.4%.

It will save a ton of money.: 这会节省很多钱.

The hundred and twenty ton aircraft was deeply mired.: 这架一百二十吨重的飞机深深地陷了进去.

Don't you think that the Pope come down on them like the proverbial ton of bricks?: 你认为教皇会冲过去对他们进行迫害么 ?

Enl è ve ton manteau que nous causions plus à l'aise.: 脱掉大衣,我们可更自在地聊聊.

If there's a mistake she'll come down on me like a ton of bricks.: 要是有什么差错,她会狠狠地训我一顿.

The ton of concrete be used in the make of the wall.: 砌墙用了10吨混凝土.

Even by modern standards, the 46, 000 ton Titanic was a colossal ship.: 即使按照现代的标准看, 那46, 000吨的泰坦斯尼克号也是一艘巨轮.

The net profit amounts to 20 dollars per ton of ore.: 每吨矿砂的净利达20美元.

The motorcyclist must have been doing a ton as he passed me.: 当摩托车从我身边驶过时,他的时速肯定达到了100英里.

This marble ramp weighs one ton.: 这个大理石台阶重一吨.

The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.: 这条船大约有200吨的货物.

The weight of this steel plate is one ton.: 这块钢板的重量是一吨.

The maximum load for this lorry is one ton.: 这种卡车最大载重量是一吨.

What have you got in this bag? It weighs a ton!: 你这口袋里装的是什么？重死了！

Every year they panned about a ton and a half of gold.: 每年他们淘出大约1.5吨金子。

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