kilo

英 ['kiːləʊ] 美['kilo]

CET4考研低频词常用词汇

复数: kilos;

kilo: kilo: [19] Khílioi was Greek for a ‘thousand’. It was adopted in French in the 1790s as the prefix for ‘thousand’ in expressions of quantity under the new metric system, and various compound forms (kilogram, kilolitre, kilometre, etc) began to find their way into English from the first decade of the 19th century onwards. The first recorded instance of kilo being used in English for kilogram dates from 1870.
kilo (n.): 1870, shortening of kilogram. Slang shortening key (in drug trafficking) is attested from 1968.

1. The price of grapes had shot up to 32 francs a kilo.: 葡萄价格大幅上涨，达到每公斤32法郎。

4. China has bought 12 Russian Kilo - class diesel attack submarines.: 中国购买了12艘俄罗斯基洛级(Kilo-class)柴油攻击潜艇.