tin

英 [tɪn] 美[tɪn]

复数: tins;

音译“听”----量词，指镀锡薄板（马口铁）密封成筒状以贮藏食物、饮料等。如：一听罐头，一听啤酒等。

tin 锡，锡盒，金属食品盒

来自古英语 tin,锡，来自 Proto-Germanic*tinom,锡。

tin: tin: [OE] Tin is a general Germanic word, with relatives in German zinn, Dutch and Danish tin, and Swedish tenn. These point to a common ancestor *tinam, but where this came from is not known. The word was first used for a ‘tin can’ in the early 19th century. Tinker may be related.
tin (n.): Old English tin, from Proto-Germanic *tinom (cognates: Middle Dutch and Dutch tin, Old High German zin, German Zinn, Old Norse tin), of unknown origin, not found outside Germanic.

Other Indo-European languages often have separate words for "tin" as a raw metal and "tin plate;" such as French étain, fer-blanc. Pliny refers to tin as plumbum album "white lead," and for centuries it was regarded as a form of silver debased by lead; hence its figurative use for "mean, petty, worthless." The chemical symbol Sn is from Late Latin stannum (see stannic).

Meaning "container made of tin" is from 1795. Tin-can is from 1770; as naval slang for "destroyer," by 1937. Tin-type in photography is from 1864. Tin ear "lack of musical discernment" is from 1909. Tin Lizzie "early Ford, especially a Model T," first recorded 1915.

1. The tea was sweetened with a hoarded tin of condensed milk.: 用贮藏的一罐炼乳为茶添加了甜味。

3. Pour the mixture into the cake tin and bake for 45 minutes.: 把混合物倒进烤模烤制45分钟。

4. He had survived by eating a small tin of fruit every day.: 他靠每天吃一小罐水果活了下来。

5. He reached for a tin of tobacco on the shelf behind him.: 他伸手去够身后架子上的一罐烟叶。