Florin
['flɒrɪn]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A silver coin of Florence, first struck in the twelfth century, and noted for its beauty. The name is given to different coins in different countries. The florin of England, first minted in 1849, is worth two shillings, or about 48 cents; the florin of the Netherlands, about 40 cents; of Austria, about 36 cents.
亨廷顿編輯
解釋/意思:
n. an English silver coin worth 2s. first minted in 1849: in Austria the unit of account otherwise called gulden with a value about 2s.: in Holland sometimes called guilder and worth about 1s. 8d.: (orig.) a Florentine gold coin with a lily stamped on one side first struck in the 11th century.
塞西莉亚校對
例句/造句/用法:
- The highest class pay a hundred florins a year, which, at two-and-twenty pence half penny a-florin, amounts to ?9:7:6. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He was all right, as far as money went, but in his deposit he had given her what looked like a bad florin. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- So Galileo did, and as a result the senate elected him to the Professorship at Padua for life, with a salary of one thousand florins yearly. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Gutenberg spent 4,000 florins before the Bible was half done, and I do not see how he can ever repay me the sums I have advanced. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Faust advanced Gutenberg the sum of 2,020 florins, taking a mortgage on his printing materials as security. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The highest class pay a hundred florins a year, which, at two-and-twenty pence half penny a-florin, amounts to ?9:7:6. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Gutenberg said he should need two or three thousand florins. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The firm was ordered to pay Dritzhn’s brothers the fifteen florins, and nothing more. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- As a result of this interview a contract was drawn up between Gutenberg and his apprentices, according to the terms of which each apprentice was to pay the inventor two hundred and fifty florins. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Then a bill was sent in of one hundred florins for press-work. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
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