gallon

• n. 加侖（容量單位）
• n. (Gallon)人名；(法、意、瑞典)加隆

詞源不詳。可能來自PIE*gel, 膨脹，鼓起，詞源同dolphin, calf. 即鼓起來的一個容器。-on, 大詞後綴。

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.

汽油的價格每加侖降了4便士。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Unleaded gasoline rose more than a penny a gallon.

無鉛汽油每加侖漲了1分多。

來自柯林斯例句

3. a five-gallon jug of beer

五加侖裝的啤酒罐

來自《權威詞典》

4. The imperial gallon is not the same size as the US one.

英製的加侖與美製的容量不同.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. This car runs 5 miles on a gallon of gasoline.

這部汽車一加侖汽油可以行駛五英裏.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》