- [countable]
a round glass container, with a lid (= cover), used for storing food, especially jam, honey, etc. (玻璃)罐子;广口瓶 a storage jar 广口贮藏瓶
Extra ExamplesTopics Cooking and eatingb2She filled the jars with the tomato sauce. 她把那些罐子都装满了番茄酱。 an empty jam jar 空果酱瓶
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- storage
- airtight
- sealed
- …
- fill
- seal
- open
- …
- be filled with something
- be full of something
- contain something
- …
- in a/the jar
- into a/the jar
- jar of
- …
- [countable]
a jar and what it contains 一罐,一瓶(的量) a jar of coffee 一罐咖啡
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- storage
- airtight
- sealed
- …
- fill
- seal
- open
- …
- be filled with something
- be full of something
- contain something
- …
- in a/the jar
- into a/the jar
- jar of
- …
- [countable]
a tall container with a wide mouth, with or without handles, used in the past for carrying water, etc. 缸;坛子 a water jar 水缸 These enormous stone jars are thought to be more than 2 000 years old. 这些巨大的石罐被认为有2 000多年的历史了。
- [countable] (British English, informal)
a glass of beer 一杯啤酒 - [singular]
an unpleasant shock, especially from things being suddenly shaken or hit 猛然震动;撞击
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 4 late 16th cent.: from French jarre, from Arabic jarra. noun sense 5 late 15th cent. (as a noun in the sense ‘disagreement, dispute’): probably imitative.