carat
carat 英 [ˈkærət] 美 [ˈkærət]
n. 克拉（等于karat）
名词复数:carats
- Precious jewels are measured in carats instead of ounces or grams. If your sister gets a three-carat diamond ring, she's getting a ring that weighs 600mg, which is big enough to be called "a rock."
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- n. 克拉（等于karat）
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1. Then he saw, at the bottom of the beaker, so clear it was almost invisible, a perfect quarter-carat crystal of pure carbon.
接着他看到在烧怀底有一块完美的四分之一克拉的纯碳钻石，如此透明，几乎让人看不到它。
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2. Allegedly (but unlikely) plucked from the eye of an Indian idol, this 45.52 carat gray-blue diamond seriously seems to mess with its owners.
这颗45.52克拉的灰蓝钻石传说是一位印第安人偶像的眼睛，它不断的为它的主人带来麻烦。
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3. Willard Wigan, a British sculptor, has spent 3 months painstakingly carving US President Obama and his family into the eye of a 24-carat gold needle, according to the UK's Daily Mail.
据英国《每日邮报》报道，英国一位名叫威勒·维根的雕刻家最近花了3个月的时间，在一枚24克拉黄金针的针眼里刻出了美国总统奥巴马一家四口人的雕像。
- carat (n.) also karat, late 15c., "a measure of the fineness of gold," from Middle French carat "measure of the fineness of gold" (14c.), from Italian carato or Medieval Latin carratus, both from Arabic qirat "fruit of the carob tree," also "weight of 4 grains," from Greek keration "carob seed," also the name of a small weight of measure, literally "little horn" diminutive of keras "horn of an animal" (from PIE root *ker- (1) "horn; head").
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