查询词典 Pence

For only two pence they can go into a telephone coin box and call their parents.

只需两个便士，他们可以进入一个电话亭呼叫他们的父母。

As a result, some environmentalists are now calling for a charge of up to 15 pence for each disposable carrier bag.

结果，一些环保主义者如今正在呼吁对每只一次性购物袋收取高15便士的费用。

The unexpected discovery of an object of great monetary value precious stone, valuable adhesive or impressed postage stamps (7 schilling, mauve, imperforate, Hamburg, 1866: 4 pence, rose, blue paper, perforate, Great Britain, 1855: 1 franc, stone, official, rouletted, diagonal surcharge, Luxemburg, 1878, antique dynastical ring, unique relic in unusual repositories or by unusual means: from the air, by fire (amid the carbonised remains of an incendiated edifice), in the sea (amid flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict), on earth (in the gizzard of a comestible fowl).

古代王朝的戒指，稀世遗宝，在不同寻常的地方或以不同寻常的方式出现：从天而降，借着一场火（在焚毁成焦炭的大厦灰烬当中，大海里（在漂流物、失事船只的丢弃物、系上浮标投下水的货物以及无主物当中），在地面上。

Being a Compleat Method of Physick, whereby a man may preserve his Body in Health; or cure himself, being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, they being most fit for English Bodies.

身为compleatphysick方法，可以让一个人保持他的身体健康；或者治好自己正在患病，3便士主管，这种事情只有在英格兰成长，他们心目中最适合的英文团体。

For the sake of a few pence, almost any coolie will run an imminent risk of death.

仅仅为了几便士，几乎所有苦力阶层的人都会把性命置之度外。

An error by the Royal Mint in Britain has seen the issue of tens of thousands of 'dateless' 20 pence coins -- driving their value up to 50 pounds (60 euros, 80 dollars) each, a collector said Monday.

一名收藏者于本周一称，英国皇家铸币局近日酿成大错，数万枚20便士硬币被漏印铸造时间，这导致错币的身价飙升至每枚50英镑（合60欧元或80美元）。

It would be an easy map if that were all, but there is also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needle-work, murders, hangings, verbs that take the dative, chocolate pudding day, getting into braces, say ninety-nine, three-pence for pulling out your tooth yourself, and so on, and either these are part of the island or they are another map showing through, and it is all rather confusing, especially as nothing will stand still.

若是只有这些，这张地图倒也不难画。但是还有呢，第一天上学校，宗教，父亲，圆水池，针线活，谋杀案，绞刑，与格动词，吃巧克力布丁的日子，穿背带裤，数到九十九，自己拔牙奖给三便士，等等。这些若不是岛上的一部分，那就是画在另一张画上的了；总之，全都是杂乱无章的。尤其是因为，没有一件东西是静止不动的。

It's daylight robbery to charge60 pence for a cup of tea .

一杯茶卖60便士，简直是漫天要价。

It's daylight robbery to charge 50 pence for a cup of water.

一杯水竟要价50便士，简直是白日抢劫。

The basic monetary unit of the United Kingdom, worth 20 shillings or 240 old pence before the decimalization of 1971.Also called pound sterling

英磅：英国的基本货币单位，值20先令或1971年采用十进制以前的240旧便士也作 pound sterling

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。