"smoot" 怎么发音

word

US

ˈsmut

SMOOT

UK

smuːt

SMOOT

释义

A 'smoot' is a humorous and unofficial unit of length, about 1.7 meters (5 feet 7 inches), originally created as a joke when a student named Oliver Smoot was measured to span the Harvard Bridge.

IPA 音标

美式英语

ˈsmut

英式英语

smuːt

简化发音

美式

SMOOT

英式

SMOOT

语境中听

One smoot is about 1.7 meters long.

The Harvard Bridge is 364.4 smoots long.

A smoot is not a standard unit of measurement.

Engineers at MIT love to joke about smoots.