Ton
[tʌn]
解釋/意思:
(-) pl. of Toe.
(n.) The common tunny, or house mackerel.
(n.) The prevailing fashion or mode; vogue; as, things of ton.
(n.) A measure of weight or quantity.
(n.) The weight of twenty hundredweight.
(n.) Forty cubic feet of space, being the unit of measurement of the burden, or carrying capacity, of a vessel; as a vessel of 300 tons burden.
(n.) A certain weight or quantity of merchandise, with reference to transportation as freight; as, six hundred weight of ship bread in casks, seven hundred weight in bags, eight hundred weight in bulk; ten bushels of potatoes; eight sacks, or ten barrels, of flour; forty cubic feet of rough, or fifty cubic feet of hewn, timber, etc.
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解釋/意思:
n. a measure of capacity varying with the substance measured—timber wheat gravel lime coke &c.—in the carrying capacity of ships 40 cubic feet: a measure of weight equal to 20 cwt. or 2240 lb. avoirdupois.
n. fashion style.—adj. Ton′ish stylish.—adv. Ton′ishly.
錄入:保拉
例句/造句/用法:
- I am sufficiently well off to keep a hundred and fifty ton steam yacht, which is at present lying at Southampton, ready to start when I wish. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The heaviest British gun at that time was of 111-ton weight. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The heating furnace and oil tank are served by a sixty-ton traveling crane and forty-ton jib crane. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- We may say then that this figure represents a 100-ton silo. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The press is served by two 200-ton cranes with hydraulic lift and pneumatic travel. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Eight chambers had been left, requiring a ton of powder each to charge them. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I soon fell into the company of some Dutch sailors belonging to the Amboyna, of Amsterdam, a stout ship of 450 tons. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Capacity freight engine, ten tons net freight; cost of handling a ton of freight per mile per horse-power to be less than ordinary locomotive. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- These engines weigh as much as 31 tons, which is seven times more than the weight of the Rocket. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- To this plunger is attached a weighted case filled with one or many tons of metal or other coarse material. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Light cruisers are vessels of from 1,500 to 7,500 tons, used in scouting, as commerce destroyers, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Many tons of pins are made in the United States weekly, and it is said that 20,000,000 pins a day are required to meet the demand. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The steam-shovel did not discriminate, but picked up handily single pieces weighing five or six tons and loaded them on the skips with quantities of smaller lumps. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- To avoid this it is washed first in water and then immersed in a chloride of gold toning bath and fixed. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The boy drew his chubby face down to a formidable length, and commenced toning a psalm tune through his nose, with imperturbable gravity. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- It might justly be compared with a sketch which is all right as far as it goes, but which requires toning down and elaboration before becoming a finished work of art. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
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