Celsius: [19] The notion of a temperature scale based on 100 was developed by the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–44) (he originally had water boiling at zero and freezing at 100o, but this was later reversed). His name began to be used to designate the scale in English around the middle of the 19th century. In popular parlance it has usually taken a back seat to centigrade (a French invention, first recorded in English in 1812), but it remains the preferred term in scientific usage.
Celsius
1850, for Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-1744) inventor of the centigrade scale in 1742.
雙語例句
1. The star's surface temperature is reckoned to be minus 75 degrees Celsius.
這顆恒星的表面溫度估計在零下75攝氏度左右。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The thermometer shows the temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit.