ounce

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ounce /aʊns/ S3 W3 noun [countableC] (written abbreviation oz)

1. TMa unit for measuring weight, equal to 28.35 grams. There are 16 ounces in a pound. 盎司〔等于28.35克，一磅为16盎司〕 → fluid ounce

2 an ounce of sense/truth/decency etc NONE/NOTHINGany sense, truth etc at all 一点头脑/真实性/体面等

If you had an ounce of sense you wouldn’t believe him!

你要是有一点头脑就不会相信他！

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an ounce of sense/truth/decency etc• Anyone with an ounce of sense knows that results depend on factors other than staff efficiency. - T. Baines, Oxford.

3 every (last) ounce of courage/energy/strength etc ALL/EVERYTHINGall the courage, energy etc that you have (最后剩下的)全部勇气/精力/力量等

Every ounce of attention was focused on our common goal.

我们把全部的精力集中于共同的目标上。

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every (last) ounce of courage/energy/strength etc• It had taken every ounce of courage she possessed to board the aircraft after her last experience.

4. an ounce of prevention (is worth a pound of cure) used to say that it is better to prevent a problem before it happens than to try to solve it after it has happened 重在预防，防患于未然

5. not an ounce of fat (on somebody) if there is not an ounce of fat on someone, they are thin and usually look healthy (某人身上)没有多余的肉，(某人)瘦得很健康

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not an ounce of fat (on somebody)• Under their chestnut coats there was not an ounce of fat and their muscles moved without effort.• He was surprised, there was not an ounce of fat on him, but he had shed five pounds.

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ounce• February gold fell 90 cents to $ 399. 30 an ounce on Commodity Exchange.• Where a cereal is very light, like cornflakes, an ounce will comfortably fill the usual breakfast bowl.• Hardly an ounce of flesh anywhere.• This was the real Janir, I thought, the one without an ounce of shyness or indecision.• It was the centrifuge that yielded the last cull, a final ounce of bits of metal.• The Warriors needed every lean ounce of effort Smith provided in the fourth quarter.• It weighs seven pounds twelve ounces, is ten and a half inches long and nine inches wide.

From Longman Business Dictionary

ounceounce /aʊns/ written abbreviation oz. noun [countableC]

a measurement of weight equal to 28.35 grams

Origin ounce

(1300-1400) Old French unce, from Latin uncia “twelfth part, ounce”

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