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水桶， 盛水用的容器。一般是长圆形，多有提梁。
Bucket, container for holding water. Generally it is a long circle with many beams.
古代木制水桶的应用比较广泛普及，春秋战国铁器冶炼科技的进步，之后有了铁制水桶。19世纪塑料科技的兴起，使得塑料水桶更轻更方便更廉价的进入人们的生活.
Ancient wooden buckets were widely used. The progress of iron smelting technology in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was followed by iron buckets. The rise of plastic technology in nineteenth Century has made plastic buckets lighter, more convenient and cheaper to enter people's lives.
中国古代对桶进行描述的文字记载有
In ancient China, there were written records of barrels.
桶,木方,受六升。——《说文》。段玉裁注:“疑当作方斛,受六升。”
Barrel, wooden side, six litres. - Shuo Wen. Duan Yucai notes: "doubt is regarded as a prescription, and it is subject to six litres."
方斛谓之桶。——《广雅》
Fang Hu called the bucket. Guangya
角斗桶。——《吕氏春秋·仲春》
A bucket. Lu Shi Chun Qiu Zhong Chun
平斗桶。——《史记·商君书》
Flat bucket. Shiji Shangjun book