Picayune
[,pɪkə'juːn] or [,pɪkə'jʊn]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.
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解釋/意思:
n. a small coin worth 6?cents current in United States before 1857 and known in different states by different names (fourpence fippence fip sixpence &c.).—adj. petty.
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例句/造句/用法:
- There's a picayune for you to buy candy with, Dodo, said Henrique; go get some. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- So he felt a moment; and then he smoked a cigar, and read the Picayune, and forgot his little gospel. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- If we were only _there_, our chances wouldn't be worth a picayune. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I give him a picayune, now and then; and you see he dresses well. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I can learn what does me as much good as that from the Picayune, any time, and smoke a cigar besides; which I can't do, you know, in a church. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
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