单词	ton
释义	tonton /tʌn/ ●●○ S3 noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINton Origin: 1200-1300 tun ‘container, unit of weight’ (11-21 centuries), from Old English tunne Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS About a million tons of lava are pouring every day from the fissure which opened on the Sicilian volcano in December. Doesn't he care that nuclear energy has so far saved the world from burning five hundred million tons of coal? From the ton of stuff littering the area, this was clearly a campsite. He was welding on top of a 900 ton oil storage tank which exploded, hurling him 120 feet into a wall. She would get some Dublin Bay prawns and tons of garlic, if he could bring some great wine or other? The payload of the military 109 is one ton, the civilian 109 is ¾ ton. The station also supplied the nearby brickworks with its coal, 23,000 tons in 1898, chiefly from Yorkshire. Two vats were in use, with maximum production in the region of three tons per week. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorweighing a lot► heavy · That table's too heavy for you to lift on your own.· Boys are usually slightly heavier than girls at birth.· Heat the oil in a large, heavy saucepan. ► weigh a ton spoken to be very heavy or to be a lot heavier than you expected: · What on earth have you got in this suitcase? It weighs a ton!· That piano weighs a ton. You'll need four men to lift it. ► weight use this to say that something is very heavy: · Victory was easy for a man of his weight and strength.the weight of something: · Several branches had been torn from the trees by the weight of the snow.· Jim was staggering along under the weight of a huge box of encyclopaedias. WORD SETS► Measurement acre, nounacreage, nounavoirdupois, nounbaker's dozen, nounbalance, nounbarometer, nounbaseline, nounbasin, nounbaud rate, nounbearing, nounbecquerel, nounblack box, nounboiling point, nounbottle, nounbox, nouncalculator, nouncalibrate, verbcalibration, nouncc, centi-, prefixcentimetre, nouncircumference, nouncl, clock, verbcm, cu, cubic, adjectivecubit, nouncup, nouncupful, nouncwt, daylight saving time, noundeci-, prefixdecibel, noundecimalization, noundeflection, noundegree, noundensity, noundepth, noundimension, noundipstick, noundisplacement, noundoz., noundozen, numberelevation, nounfactor, nounfathom, nounfl oz, fluid ounce, nounfoot, nounft, g, gage, noungal, gallon, noungauge, noungauge, verbGB, Geiger counter, noungigabyte, noungill, noungirth, noungm, graduated, adjectivegraduation, noungrain, noungram, noungramme, noungrid, noungross, adjectivehandful, nounhectare, nounhertz, nounhigh, adjectivehundredweight, nounimpedance, nounimperial, adjectiveinch, nounindicator, nouninstrument, nounjoule, nounkarat, nounkg, kilo, nounkilo-, prefixkilogram, nounkilometre, nounkm, knot, nounl, latitude, nounlb, league, nounlength, nounlight year, nounliter, nounlitre, nounlow water mark, nounmax, nounmaximum, adjectivemean, adjectivemeasure, verbmeasure, nounmedian, nounmedium, adjectivemegaton, nounmelting point, nounmental age, nounmeter, nounmeter, verb-meter, suffixmetre, noun-metre, suffixmetric, adjectivemetrication, nounmetric ton, nounmg, MHz, microsecond, nounmile, nounmillennium, nounmilli-, prefixmillibar, nounmilligram, nounmillilitre, nounmillimetre, nounminus, adjectiveminute, nounml, mpg, mph, nano-, prefixnanosecond, nounnautical mile, nounounce, nounoverweight, adjectiveoz, pace, verbpart, nounpedometer, nounpint, nounplus, adjectivepoint, nounpound, nounpunnet, nounqt, quantify, verbquart, nounradioactive dating, nounradius, nounrain gauge, nounread, verbreading, nounrecord, verbreset, verbrev, nounrotation, nounrpm, rule, nounruler, nounscale, nounsea level, nounsea mile, nounseismograph, nounsensor, nounset square, nounsextant, nounsnowfall, nounsoundings, nounsq., subsonic, adjectivesundial, nountherm, nountimberline, nountog, nounton, nountonnage, nountonne, nountroy weight, noununit, nounvoltmeter, nounvolume, nounwatch, nounwatt, nounwattage, nounweighbridge, nounweight, nounwidth, nounwt., yard, nounyardage, nounyardstick, nounyd, zero, number Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► came down on ... like a ton of bricks  I made the mistake of answering back, and she came down on me like a ton of bricks (=very severely). ► weighed a ton  The box was full of books and weighed a ton (=was very heavy). COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► metric · Measured on the carbon dioxide scale, it emitted 2.109 metric tons percapita in 1986 from fossil fuels and cement production.· A metric ton is equal to 2, 205 pounds.· Britain in the same year emitted 2.938 metric tons percapita from the same resources; the United States 5.005.· Refiners and users had expected a 200, 000 to 300, 000 metric ton increase, analysts and industry officials said. VERB► carry · But then he wasn't carrying tons of lead on a keel that had to be dragged through the water.· From Nibthwaite to Ulverston it was carried for 4/6 per ton.· The ship was carrying 80,000 tons of oil when it hit a rock off Corunna last Thursday. ► hit · She felt like crying as dejection hit her like a ton of bricks.· As I was doing the project management part of my presentation today it hit me like a ton of bricks.· He had the right club. Hit it a ton.· Miracle recovery, hit me like a ton of bricks and then it was over in nothing flat, blah blah blah. ► produce · Every acre of sunflowers produces about half a ton of oil which will be turned into low fat margarine.· Similarly, in 1979-80, it used to take 13.2 hours for a man to produce a ton of steel.· Burning of the Amazon forest produces nearly 720 million tons of carbon dioxide annually.· The district produces tons of the pâté.· Britain now produces nearly 26 million tons per year of domestic garbage which must be disposed of somewhere, somehow.· When I started it was about two hundred people per ton and now we produce five tons an hour with three people.· An excavation of a Roman villa, for example, can produce several tons of small fragments of pottery, glass and tiles. ► sell · The contract was an agreement to sell 275 tons of barley to be grown by the seller on his farm.· They sold an amazing 43,000 tons of frozen chips last year, a 25 percent increase on the previous year. ► use · This 7,224-ton daughter of the industrial revolution is repainted every seven years, using 40 tons of paint.· We use it in a ton of things.· They use 600,000 tons of potatoes each year a tenth of the total crop and 59,000 tons of white fish.· Did you know that our employees use over a ton of paper a year?· First larger vehicles were used so the tons per load figure was higher. ► weigh · It was an extraordinary 32 metres long, weighing possibly up to 100 tons.· Most of the sculptures there weigh about half a ton.· Each truck has to carry 26 of them, together weighing over a ton.· The thing weighed a black ton.· It looked as though it weighed a ton and seemed to quiver every so often.· Some one mentioned to me that 18 to 24 inches of snow on a driveway 10 by 40 feet weighs a ton.· Each caisson weighed 240 tons with water in it, and could carry one barge or two narrow boats.· It is 10' in diameter and weighs some 40 tons. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► tons of something They must be making tons of money. About 100 tons of contaminated sediments still lie on the ocean floor. By August of 1824 the stamps were pounding away and 50 tons of concentrate were ready for market. During the course of a year, 1.1 million tons of merchandise and 800,000 head of livestock were dealt with. Meanwhile tons of sound equipment seized by police has today been reclaimed by the people who hired it out. On loan from the Mesa Southwest Museum, the exhibit includes skeletons and eggs, along with tons of other dino-type artifacts. That could lead to losses of a significant portion of the 100, 000 tons of city-generated waste handled by county landfills. The landed vehicle then offloads its 400 tons of water, leaving only 100 tons of hydrogen and oxygen in its tanks. The proposed site is reported to contain around 3.5 million tons of talc. ► weigh a ton That piano weighs a ton. You'll need four men to lift it. What on earth have you got in this suitcase? It weighs a ton! Your bag weighs a ton! Each one seemed to weigh a ton at least to four small eight-year-olds. I expect the cab weighs a ton, but the whole kit is still very portable, size-wise. It looked as though it weighed a ton and seemed to quiver every so often. Some one mentioned to me that 18 to 24 inches of snow on a driveway 10 by 40 feet weighs a ton. That thing over there seems to weigh a ton. The shire horses are direct descendants of the great war horses, and each one weighs a ton. They were full of books and weighed a ton. ► come down on somebody like a ton of bricks► hit somebody like a ton of bricks The news of her accident hit me like a ton of bricks. 1 (plural tons or ton) (written abbreviation t) a unit for measuring weight, equal to 2,240 pounds or 1,016 kilograms in Britain, and 2,000 pounds or 907.2 kilograms in the US → tonne2tons of something informal a lot of something:  I’ve got tons of work to do.3weigh a ton informal to be very heavy:  Your bag weighs a ton!4come down on somebody like a ton of bricks informal to get very angry with someone about something they have done5 hit somebody like a ton of bricks American English informal to have a strong emotional effect on someone
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