A ton can be pictured as the weight you cannot argue with — about a thousand , roughly a small car. No person lifts it, no one carries it upstairs; it has to be moved by machine. Because it sits at the edge of what a body can even imagine handling, English keeps reaching for it whenever something feels too much: too heavy to lift, too many to count, too sudden to absorb.

ton 可以想成「你完全沒得討價還價的重量」——大約一千公斤,差不多一台小車。沒有人抬得動,也沒有人搬得上樓,只能靠機器。正因為它剛好落在「身體想都想不到能處理」的那條線上,英文一遇到「太超過」的感覺就常常抓它來用:重到抬不動、多到數不完、突然到反應不過來。

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原始詞典資料15 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

tonnoun詞源 1/tʌn/

  • 1

    Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun

  • 2

    Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun

  • 3

    Any of various units of mass, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun

  • 4

    Any of various units of volume, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun

  • 5

    Any of various units of volume, originally notionally equal to the contents of a tun

  • 6

    Any large, excessive, or overwhelming amount of anything.

    • I’ve got a ton of work to do.
    • I've got tons of work to do.
  • 7

    A unit of thermal power equal to 12,000 BTU/h (about 3.5 kW), approximating the idealized rate of cooling provided by uniform isothermal melting of 1 short ton of ice per day at 0°C.

    • Their main problem is that they somehow believe that a 12-ton unit can handle this entire building.
  • 8

    Synonym of hundred

另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    ball-gamesdartsgamesSynonym of hundred

  • 10

    ball-gamescricketgamesSynonym of hundred

  • 11

    Synonym of hundred

    • Speed along the lane / Do a ton or a ton and twenty-five
    • So the old Rocker gets out his bike To make a ton before he takes his leave.

tonnoun詞源 2/tɔ̃/

  • 1

    Fashion, the current style, the vogue.

    • A clergyman cannot be high in state or fashion. He must not head mobs, or set the ton in dress.
    • If our people of ton are selfish, at any rate they show they are selfish.
  • 2

    Fashionable society; those in style.

    • [S]he thought herself incapable of being flattered by the attentions of a man she despised, because he was the reigning idol of the ton […].
    • The party might consist of thirty three Of highest caste—the Brahmins of the ton.

tonnoun詞源 3

  • 1

    Synonym of tunny, particularly the common tunny or horse mackerel.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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