tons

英 [tʌnz]

美 [tʌnz]

n.  吨(英国为2 240磅，即长吨; 美国为2 000磅，即短吨); 注册吨，吨位(船舶大小的计量单位，1吨等于100立方英尺); 大量; 许多
ton的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 吨(在英国等于2,240 磅;在美国等于 2,000 磅)
  Atonis a unit of weight that is equal to 2240 pounds in Britain and to 2000 pounds in the United States.
  1. Hundreds of tons of oil spilled into the sea...
     数百吨石油溢出流入大海。
  2. Getting rid of rubbish can cost $100 a ton.
     清除垃圾每吨要花费 100 美元。
• 同 tonne
  Atonis the same as atonne.
• PHRASE 对…大发雷霆;怒斥
  If someonecomes down onyoulike a ton of bricks, they are extremely angry with you and tell you off because of something wrong that you have done.
  1. If you do something awful they all come down on you like a ton of bricks.
     如果你做了错事，他们全都会对你大发雷霆。
• 非常重;沉得要命
  If you say that somethingweighs a ton, you mean that it is extremely heavy.

英英释义

noun

• a large number or amount
  1. made lots of new friends
  2. she amassed stacks of newspapers
  Synonym:dozensheapslotspilesscoresstacksloadsraftsslewswadsoodlesgobsscadslashings

双语例句

• Around 180,000 metric tons of food aid is required
  需要大约18万公吨的食品援助。
• It could be a tremendous tool for scientists who have to wade through tons of data.
  对于那些需要费力处理海量数据的科学家而言，这个工具实在太棒了。
• For the mass, we have milligrams, we have pounds we have metric tons.
  在质量的测算上，则有毫克、磅，和公吨。
• A thousand tons of crude oil has spilled into the sea from an oil tanker.
  1,000吨原油从一艘油轮中泄漏，流入了海洋。
• Hundreds of tons of oil spilled into the sea
  数百吨石油溢出流入大海。
• There were about 300 million tons of grain in the fields at the start of the harvest.
  收获伊始地里大概有3亿吨粮食。
• Ten thousand tons of coal were produced last year.
  去年生产了一万吨的煤。
• A UN spokesman said that the mission will carry 20 tons of relief supplies.
  联合国的一名男发言人说，该代表团将携带20吨救济物资。
• On the eve of the Revolution, the colonies produced thirty thousand tons of crude iron a year.
  独立战争前夕，北美十三州每年生产3万吨生铁。
• The Wall Street Journal uses 220,000 metric tons of newsprint each year
  《华尔街日报》每年用去22万公吨新闻纸。