查询词典 penny-wise

To be offered a gift ' of one penny is like being invited to dinner and offered one single pea tastily cooked , and nothing else .

赠送1便士的礼物就像是被邀请参加晚宴，饭后得到了一粒碗豆的馈赠，别无它物。

An' then he slipped on Bestwood Hill, on a slide as the lads 'ad made last winter, an' broke his thigh, and that finished him, poor old man, it did seem a shame. Well, he left all his money to Tattie: didn't leave the boys a penny.

这便是听了闲话使人觉得耻辱的缘故，这也是多数的小说，尤其是风行的小说，使人读了觉得耻辱的缘故，现在的民众只喜欢迎合他们的腐败心理的东西了。

I'm hanging on to his taw now for the past fortnight and I can't get a penny out of him.

两个星期来我一直跟他泡，可是他一个便士也不肯掏。

A one-cent coin is a penny, a five-cent coin is a nickel, a ten-cent coin is a dime, and a 25-cent coin is a quarter.

也有1美元和50美分的硬币，但很少见。

Tessa said,"According to Penny, she's big as a house ."

特莎说，"听彭尼讲，她胖得连房子也进不去了。"

Right:(1) One penny, green, 1945, used or unused;(2) Threepence, red

邮票，绿色，1945年发行，用过或未用过均可；(2)一张三便士邮票，红色

A Golden Boot award for top scorer in the Premier League, and a similar award for scoring the winning goal in the FA Cup final alongside a host of good press coverage for changes in attitude show him to be worth every penny of the ￡24m we paid three years ago.

在英超成为神射手获得金靴奖殊荣，和在足总杯决赛打进致胜球的一个相同荣誉（我以为他们仍然会颁发一个这样的奖项），旁边还有非常多的关于他态度上的改变的正面媒体报导，这一切都显示出我们三年前所花费的2400万镑的每一分一毫都是物有所值的。

Penny: We have chicken, tortilla and potato leek.

我们只有鸡汤，玉米汤和罗宋汤。

In the nature of single blessedness he would one day take unto himself a wife when Miss Right came on the scene but in the interim ladies' society was a conditio sine qua non though he had the gravest possible doubts, not that he wanted in the smallest to pump Stephen about Miss Ferguson (who was very possibly the particular lodestar who brought him down to Irishtown so early in the morning), as to whether he would find much satisfaction basking in the boy and girl courtship idea and the company of smirking misses without a penny to their names bi or triweekly with the orthodox preliminary canter of complimentplaying and walking out leading up to fond lovers' ways and flowers and chocs.

这位幸运的单身汉有朝一日遇上相般配的小姐，就会娶她作妻子。到那时为止，与女人交往倒也是个不可或缺的条件。他丝毫不想为弗格森小姐（促使他凌晨来到爱尔兰区的，极可能就是这位特定的"北极星"哩）的事盘问斯蒂芬什么。尽管他十分怀疑斯蒂芬能够从诸如此类的事中得到由衷的满足：沉湎于少男少女式的谈情说爱啦，同只会嘻嘻嘻地傻笑、身上一文不名的小姐每周幽会上两三次啦，照老一套的程序相互恭维，外出散步，又是鲜花又是巧克力地走上亲密的情侣之路。

There are the curled numbers that would go well with tweed and a penny-farthing: turn-of-the-century 'taches.

有数字的卷曲的是不要一分钱花呢和良好的戈比：之交跨世纪'活颜。

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