Penny

(noun.) a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit.

(noun.) a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound.

录入:梅利特

• My own family drains me to the last penny. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He had a penny too--a gift of Sowerberry's after some funeral in which he had acquitted himself more than ordinarily well--in his pocket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• It has fetched a penny. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• My opinion is she won't stand anything, so here's a penny for you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• How to turn a penny. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• There wasn't a penny to choose between 'em. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• With all these virtues, one penny a square! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• It was Bartlemy time when I was shopped; and there warn't a penny trumpet in the fair, as I couldn't hear the squeaking on. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• As things go over there, Olenski's acted generously: he might have turned her out without a penny. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The organ-grinder piteously put in his claim to a penny from the benevolent stranger. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Every pocket stuffed with pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The Portuguese pennies, or reis (pronounced rays), are prodigious. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It cost eighteen-pence. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• These were about eighteen pence or twenty pence a-day before the tax, and they are not more now. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Two half-pence is all the same, and four farthings is received with joy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Yes, he's a havin' two mile o' danger at eight-pence,' responded the son. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Mrs. Chadband merely laughs and contemptuously tells him he can offer twenty pence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• This whim suited me the better at this time, from the cheapness of it, not costing us above eighteen pence sterling each per week. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• But I love children, and Four-pence a week is Four-pence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The highest class pay a hundred florins a year, which, at two-and-twenty pence half penny a-florin, amounts to ?9:7:6. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Anybody could have bread for asking, and a loaf cost only three-ha'pence. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

校对:斯坦顿