Twopenny
[tʌpәni]
解释:
(a.) Of the value of twopence.
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例句:
- Soon after the departure of my protégée, my servant brought me a letter, by the twopenny post; the handwriting was Lord Ponsonby's. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Having put my letter into the post, I passed a restless night: and the next morning, heard the knock of the twopenny postman in extreme agitation. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Mr. Snodgrass was affected, but he undertook the delivery of the note as readily as if he had been a twopenny postman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Jos liked to hear it, but the Major used to go off growling at the appearance of this woman, with her twopenny gentility. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- And pray, Sam, what is the twopenny rope? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- He thinks with me, said Dorothea to herself, or rather, he thinks a whole world of which my thought is but a poor twopenny mirror. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- To think of Jack Dawkins--lummy Jack--the Dodger--the Artful Dodger--going abroad for a common twopenny-halfpenny sneeze-box! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- The twopenny rope, sir,' replied Mr. Weller, 'is just a cheap lodgin' house, where the beds is twopence a night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
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