litre: [19] Litre goes back to Greek lītrā, a term which denoted a Sicilian monetary unit. This found its way via medieval Latin litrā into French as litron, where it was used for a unit of capacity. By the 18th century it had rather fallen out of use, but in 1793 it was revived, in the form litre, as the name for the basic unit of capacity in the new metric system.
It is first recorded in English in 1810. The Greek word was descended from an earlier, unrecorded *līthrā, which was borrowed into Latin as lībra ‘pound’. This is the source of various modern terms for units of weight, and hence of currency, including Italian lira and the now disused French livre, and it also lies behind the English symbol ￡ for ‘pound’. => level, lira
雙語例句
1. New Japanese cars averaged 13 km to the litre in 1981.
1981年，新型的日產(chǎn)汽車平均每升汽油能跑13千米。
來自柯林斯例句
2. In that 2.7-litre form it really was a terrific racing car.
其2.7升的車型確實是非常棒的賽車。
來自柯林斯例句
3. This tax would raise petrol prices by about 3.5p per litre.
這項稅收會使每升汽油價格提高約3.5便士。
來自柯林斯例句
4. One tablet will purify a litre of water.
一丸即可凈化一升水。
來自《權威詞典》
5. Litre is a unit of capacity in the metric system.