Groat
[grәut]
解释:
(n.) An old English silver coin, equal to four pence.
(n.) Any small sum of money.
迭戈手打
同义词及近义词：
n. Fourpence.
手打:撒迪厄斯
解释:
n. an English silver coin worth fourpence—only coined after 1662 as Maundy money—the silver fourpenny-piece coined from 1836-56 was not called a groat: a very small sum proverbially.
整理:肯尼思
例句:
- Remember that six pounds a year is but a groat a day. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- He that wastes idly a groat's worth of his time per day, one day with another, wastes the privilege of using one hundred pounds each day. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- A penny saved is twopence clear, A pin a day's a groat a year. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- He that spends a groat a day idly, spends idly above six pounds a year, which is the price for the use of one hundred pounds. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
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