Pence

例句/造句/用法:

• It cost eighteen-pence. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
• Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
• These were about eighteen pence or twenty pence a-day before the tax, and they are not more now. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Two half-pence is all the same, and four farthings is received with joy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
• Yes, he's a havin' two mile o' danger at eight-pence,' responded the son. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
• Mrs. Chadband merely laughs and contemptuously tells him he can offer twenty pence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• This whim suited me the better at this time, from the cheapness of it, not costing us above eighteen pence sterling each per week. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• But I love children, and Four-pence a week is Four-pence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• 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.
• Anybody could have bread for asking, and a loaf cost only three-ha'pence. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• My pence were duly paid, and the rest is familiar to you. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• More than a thousand pair of Shetland stockings are annually imported into Leith, of which the price is from fivepence to seven-pence a pair. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• The lesson which he thus receives, makes him cautious; he leaves politics, represses his pride, and saves pence. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• Eighteen pence a day may be reckoned the common price of labour in London and its neighbourhood. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Adding machines are made that figure in English pence, shillings and pounds; in Japanese yen, and in the monetary system of most civilized countries. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.

編輯:默里