查询词典 fourpence

To wash his soiled hands with a partially consumed tablet of Barrington's lemonflavoured soap, to which paper still adhered,(bought thirteen hours previously for fourpence and still unpaid for), in fresh cold neverchanging everchanging water and dry them, face and hands, in a long redbordered holland cloth passed over a wooden revolving roller.

52为了把那块已用掉一部分、还粘着包装纸、散发着柠檬气味的巴灵顿牌肥皂（价值四便士，是十二个钟头以前赊购的）涂在脏手上，在新鲜冰凉、永恒不变而又不断变化的水里洗净，用那条套在旋转式木棍子上的红边长麻布揩拭脸和双手。

To cut a long story short Bloom, grasping the situation, was the first to rise from his seat so as not to outstay their welcome having first and foremost, being as good as his word that he would foot the bill for the occasion, taken the wise precaution to unobtrusively motion to mine host as a parting shot a scarcely perceptible sign when the others were not looking to the effect that the amount due was forthcoming, making a grand total of fourpence (the amount he deposited unobtrusively in four coppers, literally the last of the Mohicans), he having previously spotted on the printed pricelist for all who ran to read opposite him in unmistakable figures, coffee 2d, confectionery do, and honestly well worth twice the money once in a way, as Wetherup used to remark.

272长话短说。布卢姆看明事态之后，生怕呆得太长，招人讨厌，就头一个站了起来。他信守了自己要为这次聚会掏腰包的诺言，趁没人注意就机警地朝我们这位老板作了个几乎觉察不到的告别手势，示意马上就付钞，总计四便士（并且不引人注目地付了四枚铜币，那诚然是"最后的莫希干人"了）。他事先瞧见了对面墙上的价目表上印得清清楚楚的数字，让人一看就读得出来：咖啡二便士，点心同上。正如韦瑟厄普过去常说的，货真价实，供应的东西有时竟值两倍的价钱哩。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷