| 词汇 | galon |
| 词源 | galon. According to Edna Ferber in her book Giant (1952): “The Mexicans call a big horse [used for hauling] a galon . . . The [American] teamsters would yell to their big horses, ‘G’long! G’long!’ Get along, get along, see? So the Mexicans thought a heavy horse was a galon.” |
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