Penny
['penɪ] or ['pɛni]
解释:
(noun.) a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit.
(noun.) a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound.
录入:梅利特--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.
(n.) An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius).
(n.) Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver.
(n.) Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny.
(n.) See Denarius.
(a.) Worth or costing one penny.
欧文整理
解释:
n. a copper coin (bronze since 1860) originally silver=1⁄12 of a shilling or four farthings: a small sum: money in general: (N.T.) a silver coin=7çµ?: pound in fourpenny sixpenny tenpenny nails=four six ten pound weight to the thousand:—pl. Pennies (pen′iz) denoting the number of coins; Pence (pens) the amount of pennies in value.—adjs. Penn′ied possessed of a penny; Penn′iless without a penny: without money: poor.—ns. Penn′ilessness; Penn′y-a-lin′er one who writes for a public journal at so much a line: a writer for pay; Penn′y-a-lin′erism hack-writing; Penn′y-dog the tope or miller's dog a kind of shark; Penn′y-post a means of carrying a letter for a penny; Penn′y-rent income; Penn′yweight twenty-four grains of troy weight (the weight of a silver penny); Penn′y-wis′dom prudence in petty matters.—adj. Penn′y-wise saving small sums at the risk of larger: niggardly on improper occasions.—ns. Penn′y-worth a penny's worth of anything: the amount that can be given for a penny: a good bargain—also Penn′'orth (coll.); Pē′ter's-pence the name given to an old tribute offered to the Roman Pontiff now a voluntary contribution.—Penny fee (Scot.) a small wage; Penny gaff (slang) a low-class theatre; Penny mail (Scot.) rent in money not in kind: a small sum paid to the superior of land; Penny wedding a wedding ceremonial in Scotland at which the invited guests made contributions in money to pay the general expenses.—A pretty penny a considerable sum of money; Turn an honest penny to earn money honestly.
整理:希欧多尔
娱乐性解释：
To dream of pennies, denotes unsatisfactory pursuits. Business will suffer, and lovers and friends will complain of the smallness of affection. To lose them, signifies small deference and failures. To find them, denotes that prospects will advance to your improvement. To count pennies, foretells that you will be business-like and economical.
手打:雷克斯
例句:
- My own family drains me to the last penny. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- He had a penny too--a gift of Sowerberry's after some funeral in which he had acquitted himself more than ordinarily well--in his pocket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- It has fetched a penny. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- My opinion is she won't stand anything, so here's a penny for you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- How to turn a penny. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- There wasn't a penny to choose between 'em. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- With all these virtues, one penny a square! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- It was Bartlemy time when I was shopped; and there warn't a penny trumpet in the fair, as I couldn't hear the squeaking on. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- As things go over there, Olenski's acted generously: he might have turned her out without a penny. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- The organ-grinder piteously put in his claim to a penny from the benevolent stranger. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Every pocket stuffed with pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- The Portuguese pennies, or reis (pronounced rays), are prodigious. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- It cost eighteen-pence. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- These were about eighteen pence or twenty pence a-day before the tax, and they are not more now. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Two half-pence is all the same, and four farthings is received with joy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Yes, he's a havin' two mile o' danger at eight-pence,' responded the son. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Mrs. Chadband merely laughs and contemptuously tells him he can offer twenty pence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- This whim suited me the better at this time, from the cheapness of it, not costing us above eighteen pence sterling each per week. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- But I love children, and Four-pence a week is Four-pence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The highest class pay a hundred florins a year, which, at two-and-twenty pence half penny a-florin, amounts to ?9:7:6. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Anybody could have bread for asking, and a loaf cost only three-ha'pence. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
校对:斯坦顿