英语词汇gigaton的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	gigaton
词源	gigaton. A word born with the hydrogen bomb, a gigaton is a measure of energy equal to 1 billion tons of T.N.T. Giga means “1 billion times,” deriving from the Greek gigas, “giant.” A kilo- ton, from the Greek for “1,000,” is a measure of energy equal to 1,000 tons of T.N.T.
随便看	on the house on the lam on the level on the make on the nail on the nose on the pad on the pig-s back on the qui vive on the rocks on the ropes on the same sheet of music with on the shady side of 40 on the side of the angels on the spot on the spree on the square on the tip of my tongue on the town on the wagon on the warpath on the whole i’d rather be in philadelphia on the wrong side of the door when brains were handed out on tick on velvet

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