查询词典 centavo

From then on I did not earn a centavo except with the typewriter, and this seems more meritorious to me than one might think, because the first royalties that allowed me to live on my stories and novels were paid to me when I was in my forties, after I had published four books with the most abject earnings.

从那时起，除了写作，我没有挣到过一分钱。这对我的重要意义要比人们想的大，因为我得以依靠写小说谋生的第一笔版税，在我40岁后才到来。在此之前，我出版了四本书，所得少得可怜。

The basic monetary unit of Portugal; equal to 100 centavo.

葡萄牙基本货币单位。

He counted them one by one every day from the beginning of the annual harvest, and he picked them one by one with his own hand at the moment he sold them at the fabulous price of a centavo each.

每年丰收季节一来临，他会亲手把它们一个个摘下来卖走，价格低得不可思议，每个一分。

He made a rough stab at working out the expenses and found out it was costing us 40 centavos to print one 20-centavo bill.

他大致估算了一下费用，发现印一张20分的钞票要花40分钱。

Manilans tell the story of an ex-bootblack who makes a living hanging around Coke machines and selling 10-centavo pieces (the only coins that fit the machines) for 15 centavos to thirsty people who are too eager to go and get the proper change.

马尼拉人中流传着这样一个故事：有一个人，他以前是个擦鞋匠，后来他就在可乐贩卖机附近转悠，用10分钱兑换别人的15分钱来赚取差价为生，因为那些饥渴的人们需要用10分的硬币去买可乐（可乐贩卖机只能使用10分钱的硬币）。

"Bird Man's Diary, Butting on the Love Island", Changsha, China

2008年"鸟人日记，顶在爱情岛"，中国长沙

As long as they were in the service of a family of wizards, their magic would remain dormant.

只要他们一天为家庭服务，他们的法力就潜藏不动。