picul
美['pɪkʌl] 英['pɪkʌl]
n. 担
英英释义
Noun- a unit of weight used in some parts of Asia; approximately equal to 133 pounds (the load a grown man can carry)
例句
- Last year they bought unhusked rice from the peasants in Wanan and Taiho Counties at fifty cents a picul and sold it in Kanchow for four yuan, making a sevenfold profit. 去年万安、泰和两县的农民五角钱一担谷卖给商人，而商人运到赣州卖四块钱一担，赚去了七倍。
- In 1868, the market value of raw silk was 517 tael of silver per picul, by 1875, the price had fallen to 285 tael per picul. 1868年，生丝每担市值白银517两，到1875年，每担价格已下跌至285两。
- Last year they bought unhusked rice from the peasants in Wanan and Taiho Counties at fifty cents a picul and sold it in Kanchow for four yuan,making a sevenfold profit. 去年万安、泰和两县的农民五角钱一担谷卖给商人，而商人运到赣州卖四块钱一担，赚去了七倍。
- In 1875, the market price of raw silk was just 285 liang silver per picul, which was down from 517 liang in 1868. 8 years later, it even slumped to 200 liang. 1868年，生丝每担市值白银517两，到1875年，每担价格已下跌至285两。
- One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store. 德伐日先生把食品和带来的灯放到鞋匠长凳上（阁楼里除了一张草荐床之外别无他物），他跟罗瑞先生弄醒了囚徒，扶他站起身来。
- In South China, nearly a thousand miles from the civil war areas, rice rose from eighteen million dollars to thirty-six million dollars a picul within a few days. 在离内战战场将近一千英里的华南地区，米价在几天内从每担一千八百万元涨到三千六百万元。
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