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."
实用例句
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.
