Sterling
['stɜːlɪŋ] or ['stɝlɪŋ]
解释:
(noun.) British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK.
迪莉娅编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Same as Starling, 3.
(n.) Any English coin of standard value; coined money.
(n.) A certain standard of quality or value for money.
(a.) Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used.
(a.) Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling merit; a man of sterling good sense.
伊莎贝拉录入
同义词及近义词:
a. Genuine, pure, true, real, substantial, positive.
彻姬塔编辑
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Sound, substantial, unalloyed, pure, unadulterated, standard, genuine,essential, solid
ANT:Fictitious, ungenuine, ascititious, specious, pretentious, ostensible,plausible
汉弗莱手打
解释:
adj. a designation of British money—pure genuine of good quality—also generally of value or excellence authoritative.
安东尼编辑
例句:
- Sixteen shillings sterling, we are told by Mr Byron, was the price of a good horse in the capital of Chili. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- He thinks I am perfect: furnished with all sorts of sterling qualities and solid virtues, such as I never had, nor intend to have. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- On the 13th of September General Sterling Price entered Iuka, a town about twenty miles east of Corinth on the Memphis and Charleston railroad. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- 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.
- The silver thus deposited, is absolutely pure--finer, in fact, than any articles of sterling silver. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- In 1723, the whole importation from Britain to Pennsylvania was but about ?15,000 sterling; it is now near half a million. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- The value of the paper thus produced is calculated to exceed two millions sterling. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- The whole value of the gold and silver, therefore, which circulated in Scotland before the Union, cannot be estimated at less than a million sterling. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The person who works the lace of a pair of fine ruffles for example, will sometimes raise the value of, perhaps, a pennyworth of flax to ?30 sterling. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It replaced in many households pewter ware which, until the introduction of Sheffield plate, was the best substitute for sterling silver. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Three sestertii equal to about sixpence sterling, was the price which the republic paid for the modius or peck of the tithe wheat of Sicily. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Pope and Edison invented a one-wire printer, and started a system of 'gold printers' devoted to the recording of gold quotations and sterling exchange only. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Blandois' drafts at sight to the extent of, say Fifty Pounds sterling (50_l_. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- You speak of that annuity in pounds sterling, but it is in reality so many pounds of beefsteaks and so many pints of porter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- When their master has occasion for their labour, he gives them, besides, two pecks of oatmeal a-week, worth about sixteen pence sterling. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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