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Questions & Answers: Abbreviation lb for pound
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[Q] From Andrea: “Why are pounds, when used as a weight, abbreviated lbs?”

[A] The origin is in the Latin word libra, which could mean both balance scales (hence the symbol for the astrological sign Libra, which was named after a constellation that was thought to resemble scales) and also a pound weight, for which the full expression was libra pondo, the second word being the origin of our pound.

这个问题也困扰了我一阵子，为什么重量单位pound被简写成lbs,这三个字母都没有出现在该词当中。 原来lbs是拉丁语libra的简写， libra既可以作天平讲，又可以作为重量单位 libra pondo 的简称。熟悉星座的朋友应该知道天平座英文就叫做libra，星座的名称应该都是拉丁语，它们的来源是罗马的神话故事嘛。 libra和pound是同义词，而pound没有简写，libra通常只在简写时被用到。