tin

英 [tɪn] 美 [tɪn]
  • n. 锡;罐头,罐;马口铁
  • adj. 锡制的
  • vt. 涂锡于;给…包马口铁
  • n. (Tin)人名;(缅、柬)丁;(印尼)婷;(越)信;(泰、土)廷

助记提示


音译“听”----量词,指镀锡薄板(马口铁)密封成筒状以贮藏食物、饮料等。如:一听罐头,一听啤酒等。

中文词源


tin 锡,锡盒,金属食品盒

来自古英语 tin,锡,来自 Proto-Germanic*tinom,锡。

英文词源


tin
tin: [OE] Tin is a general Germanic word, with relatives in German zinn, Dutch and Danish tin, and Swedish tenn. These point to a common ancestor *tinam, but where this came from is not known. The word was first used for a ‘tin can’ in the early 19th century. Tinker may be related.
tin (n.)
Old English tin, from Proto-Germanic *tinom (cognates: Middle Dutch and Dutch tin, Old High German zin, German Zinn, Old Norse tin), of unknown origin, not found outside Germanic.

Other Indo-European languages often have separate words for "tin" as a raw metal and "tin plate;" such as French étain, fer-blanc. Pliny refers to tin as plumbum album "white lead," and for centuries it was regarded as a form of silver debased by lead; hence its figurative use for "mean, petty, worthless." The chemical symbol Sn is from Late Latin stannum (see stannic).

Meaning "container made of tin" is from 1795. Tin-can is from 1770; as naval slang for "destroyer," by 1937. Tin-type in photography is from 1864. Tin ear "lack of musical discernment" is from 1909. Tin Lizzie "early Ford, especially a Model T," first recorded 1915.

双语例句


1. The tea was sweetened with a hoarded tin of condensed milk.
用贮藏的一罐炼乳为茶添加了甜味。

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2. She accidentally knocked the tea tin off the shelf.
她不小心把架子上的茶叶罐碰了下来。

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3. Pour the mixture into the cake tin and bake for 45 minutes.
把混合物倒进烤模烤制45分钟。

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4. He had survived by eating a small tin of fruit every day.
他靠每天吃一小罐水果活了下来。

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5. He reached for a tin of tobacco on the shelf behind him.
他伸手去够身后架子上的一罐烟叶。

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