查询词典 school pence

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。

She was slammed for increasing the price of school meals to sixty pence a week.

她因决定把学校的伙食费提高到每周六十便士而受到了猛烈抨击。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。