tun

IPA/tʌn/
IPA/tʌn/

tun — 名詞

  • tunsingular
  • tunsplural

1. a very large barrel-shaped container made of wood, traditionally used to store b

1.名詞C2
釋義

大酒桶

貯存酒類的大型木桶

a very large barrel-shaped container made of wood, traditionally used to store beer or wine as they age

例句

The cellar master rolled the empty tun into the stone storage room.

酒窖師傅把空的大酒桶滾進石造儲藏室。

collocation: empty tun / rolled the tun

Each oak tun in the brewery holds enough ale for two hundred people.

釀酒廠裡每個橡木大酒桶都足夠裝兩百人份的麥芽酒。

collocation: oak tun / holds [quantity]

常見搭配
  • oak tun
  • wooden tun
  • empty tun
  • wine tun
  • fermentation tun
  • roll the tun
  • age in a tun
同義詞
  • cask

    a general term for a wooden barrel; 'cask' can refer to many sizes, while 'tun' implies a very large one

  • barrel

    a broad, everyday term for a cylindrical container; 'barrel' lacks the specific large-scale connotation of 'tun'

  • keg

    a small barrel, typically for beer; 'keg' is much smaller than a tun

文法句型

a tun

the tun

tuns

用法筆記

Primarily found in historical, brewing, and winemaking contexts. In modern usage, stainless steel tanks have largely replaced wooden tuns for fermentation.

常見錯誤

The brewery ordered a new tun of 500 litres.
The brewery ordered a new tun that holds 500 litres.
'tun' refers to the container itself, not a unit of volume (use 'tunful' or rephrase for the capacity).
She poured the wine from a small tun.
She poured the wine from a small bottle.
'tun' describes a very large container (often hundreds of litres), not a table-serving vessel.

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常見搭配

名詞搭配

  • oak tun
  • wine tun
  • beer tun
  • fermentation tun
  • wooden tun

常用片語

  • roll a tun
  • fill a tun
  • age in a tun
  • store in tuns

介系詞搭配

  • in a tun
  • into a tun
  • from a tun