Dollar
['dɒlə] or ['dɑlɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a symbol of commercialism or greed; 'he worships the almighty dollar'; 'the dollar sign means little to him'.
(noun.) a United States coin worth one dollar; 'the dollar coin has never been popular in the United States'.
(noun.) a piece of paper money worth one dollar.
(noun.) the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents.
編輯:齐克--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains.
(n.) A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined.
(n.) A coin of the same general weight and value, though differing slightly in different countries, current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries.
(n.) The value of a dollar; the unit commonly employed in the United States in reckoning money values.
編輯:露西尔
解釋/意思:
n. a silver coin (= 100 cents) of U.S.A. Mexico Singapore &c. The U.S.A. dollar = about 4s. 2d. sterling.—adjs. Doll′ared; Doll′arless.—ns. Dollaroc′racy; Doll′arship.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The Moors have some small silver coins and also some silver slugs worth a dollar each. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He found that after paying his hotel bill he would have less than half a dollar in the world. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- At that day fifty dollar gold pieces, not the issue of the government, were common on the Pacific coaSt. They were called slugs. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- When they parted, the senator put into his hand a ten-dollar bill. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- In the end, however, the complainant had nothing to show for all his struggle, as the master who made the accounting set the damages at one dollar! 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I'd like to have a dollar for every time I've slept in that thing in the snow. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- That it was a deep-sea fish was indicated by the small eye, which was about the size of a silver dollar. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The lack of such a place never prevented experimentation, however, as long as he had a dollar in his pocket and some available hole in the wall. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- And once there was a young man in America who gambled till he had lost his last dollar. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- There's many of 'em who can't spend a dollar to your guinea, my boy. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I'd never grudge a dollar that was spent on that. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It rises to the surface in slogans like human rights above property rights, the man above the dollar. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- You can buy enough velvet in Genoa for twenty-five dollars to make a five hundred dollar cloak in New York--so the ladies tell me. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I will risk another dollar on him. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- To this question a strict regard for truth compels the answer that they have not been benefited at all, not to the extent of a single dollar, so far as cash damages are concerned. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I've saved you some thousands of dollars, at different times, by taking care of your hands,--that's all the thanks I get. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Hundreds of cities and millions of dollars have been thus saved from destruction. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Clear waste, sir, of a thousand dollars, just for want of management,--there's where 't is. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- That was a slander; they were broken to the saddle when I got them and cost nearly twenty dollars. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Forty thousand dollars was named and accepted. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The result has been the saving of vast amounts of maritime property, estimated at many millions of dollars yearly. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- At the end of the interview the owner had offered Edison the position of manager at a salary of three hundred dollars a month, and Edison had accepted. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It was exploited under the powerful patronage of a syndicate of newspaper men, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent in perfecting it before any practical results were obtained. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In 1847 the subject was again taken up for serious consideration, the work begun in 1860, and finished in 1869, at a cost of £20,500,000, or more than a hundred million dollars. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Twelve dollars--twelve dollars a day for flowers? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It is a lucrative source of emolument, and sometimes brings into the national treasury as much as thirty-five or forty dollars a year. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They have also a small gold coin worth two dollars. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Yes, it will be worth at least as much as a thousand dollars--when you get it done. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Yes; I heard Grant lost five or six dollars' worth of horses the other day, he replied. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
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