gallon

英 ['g?l?n] 美['ɡ?l?n]

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復(fù)數(shù):?gallons;

1. 音譯“加侖”。

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(gè)容器。-on, 大詞后綴。

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."

1. The price of petrol is coming down by four pence a gallon.: 汽油的價(jià)格每加侖降了4便士。