Farthing
['fɑːðɪŋ] or ['fɑrðɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.
(n.) A very small quantity or value.
(n.) A division of land.
手打:凯勒
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Fourth part of a penny.
校對:雷明顿
解釋/意思:
n. the fourth of a penny: anything very small: (B.) the rendering for two names of coins one the fourth part of the other—assarion used as the Gr. equivalent of the L. as and kodrantes (L. quadrans) a coin equivalent to two lepta.—n. Far′thingful.
整理:弗娜
例句/造句/用法:
- The times are as tight as can be; everybody is being ruined; and I don't believe Lydgate has got a farthing. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Mr. Ablewhite, senior, refused to lend his son a farthing. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- If I didn't support a aged pairint, and a lovely sister,'--here the waiter was greatly agitated--'I wouldn't take a farthing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- And yet they hang about my uncle like vultures, and are afraid of a farthing going away from their side of the family. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Since that imprudent transaction, they have received from it--not one farthing! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Not lost,' said Jingle hastily, 'Pay it all--stick to business--cash up--every farthing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Yet of course, her cynicism knew well enough that, in a world where spurious coin was current, a bad sovereign was better than a bad farthing. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- No, said her father; Wickham's a fool if he takes her with a farthing less than ten thousand pounds. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- There was something quite diabolical in not leaving him a farthing after all. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Not a farthing more,' was the firm reply of Mr. Limbkins. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- I believe Mrs. Bardell specially said, however,' observed Fogg, glancing at Dodson, 'that she would not compromise for a farthing less. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- She shall never leave me, until we are ruined utterly ourselves, which does not seem far off, or until I can pay her the utmost farthing. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She hasn't a farthing. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Not a copper farthing's worth of it! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- That is to say, not one farthing of the twenty thousand pounds was to go to Miss Halcombe, or to any other relative or friend of Lady Glyde's. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Two half-pence is all the same, and four farthings is received with joy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Take care of your farthings, old Tinker, and your guineas will come quite nat'ral. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- You may be sure it's Sir Pitt Crawley, young woman, said Mrs. Tinker, surlily; because he looks to his farthings. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
錄入:特伦特