查询词典 penny-wise

Penny : For god's sake.

看在上帝的份上。

A pound of wheat at a penny is as dear as a pound of butcher s meat at fourpence .

四便士一磅的家畜肉和一便士一磅的小麦一样昂贵。

After some minutes he appeared to have come to a decision , and entering the shop he purchased a baby s rattle for fourpence half penny .

几分钟后，他似乎打定了主意，走进店里花四个半便士买了一个小孩玩的拨浪鼓。

He can play the violin nearly well enough to earn money in the orchestra of a penny gaff, but not quite.

他的小提琴拉得差不多可以在一个三流戏院的乐队里挣钱，不过还不够好。

Yes, you are quite right, that is a lot more pretty penny, as you call it, than is received by Gasworks comprehensive, which I showed you round last week.

是的，你说的很对，如你所讲，他比Gasworks 综合大学收的钱要多很多。

Geppetto did not have a penny in his pocket, so he

杰佩托口袋里连一个子儿也没有，所以他就用

He's really serious about Penny and wants to get engaged.

他对彭尼的确是认真的，他想跟她订婚。

A penny for your thoughts, she said, her eyes glistening.

告诉我你在想什么，她说，她的眼里闪着光。

In April of 1969, driving past the Three Penny Cinema on Lincoln Avenue, I saw a crowd lined up under umbrellas on the sidewalk, waiting in the rain to get into the next screening of Godard's "Weekend."

另一段回忆则要愉悦得多。1969年的4月，我驾车从林肯大道上的"三便士电影院"驶过时，看到观众排成一队长龙在雨中撑伞等候戈达尔的影片《周末》的放映。

You know how that old children's story goes, when an acorn (or an apple--depending on the version you read) falls on her head she thinks the sky is falling. And as she encounters her friends, Henny Penny, Cocky Locky and Goosey Poosy, she is so convincing that they each stop what they are doing and get caught up in the mass hysteria of it all.

你是知道的，那个古老的儿童故事的内容：从前，有一个橡子(或苹果--根据你的读物)掉在了她的头上，当她遇到了自己的朋友Henny Penny，Cocky，Locky还有Goosey Poosy，她显得深信无疑，至于她的朋友们都停下在做的事情，都染上了集体歇斯底里。

You can do some assertiveness training.

你可以进行一些自信训练。

We were well on the path to making a rear-wheel-drive global platform," says Mays."

我们正致力于建立一个后轮驱动的平台，"Mays这样说道。"