一英镑

A tape recorder , and an Alsatian—or perhaps a Great Dane, and a hundred thousand pounds

一架录音机，一条阿尔萨斯种狼狗——或者也许要一条丹麦大狗——还有十万英镑…

Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and preferred cork jackets, I don't know; all I know is, that there was but one solitary bidding, and that was from an attorney connected with the bill-broking business, who offered two pounds in cash, and the balance in sherry, but declined to be guaranteed from drowning on any higher bargain.

至于到底是因为那时节水里来海里去的人们囊中羞涩，还是对那玩意儿信心不足，而更信赖软木救生衣，我不得而知；我唯一知道的是，参与竞购的仅有一人，是一位证券经纪行律师。他只肯出两英镑现金，其余以雪利酒冲抵。任如何向他保证穿上这种救生衣绝不会溺水，他都再不肯多出一个子儿。

The 16,000-a-year Royal Hospital School at Holbrook, Suffolk, was in damage control last night after the member of staff was caught in bed with the female student.

这所地处萨克福马的霍布鲁克，一年学费达一万六千英镑的皇家医学院在这名职员被逮住和一名女学生在床上后就完全失控了。

And most recently, in 2002, a Londoner named Margaret Layne left a trust worth tens of thousands of pounds and a house in Harrow to a stray cat she rescued.

距今较近的2002年，一个叫玛格丽特·莱恩的伦敦人把一只价值数万英镑的遗产信托和哈罗镇的一所房子留给了她收养的一只流浪猫。

The Orangery tea, including a cream cheese and cucumber sandwich, scone, and tea is 11.95, while a champagne tea includes Belgian chocolate cake (wickedly untraditional!) as well as champagne.

Orangery 的下午茶包括一份奶油干酪，一份小黄瓜三明治，烤饼，和茶，花费11.95英镑，而一份香槟下午茶则包括香槟和比利时巧克力蛋糕。

I was in some Degree settled in my Measures for carrying on the Plantation, before my kind Friend the Captain of the Ship that tool: me up at Sea, went back; for the Ship remained there in providing his Loading, and preparing for his Voyage, near three Months, when telling him what little Stock I had left behind me in London, he gave me this friendly and sincere Advice, Seignior Inglese says he, for so he always called me, if you will give me Letters, band a Procuration here in Form to me, with Orders to the Person who has your Money in London, to send your Effects to Lisbon, to such Persons as I shall direct and in such Goods as are proper for this Country, I will bring you the Produce of them, God willing, at my Return; but since human Affairs are all subject to Changes and Disasters, I would have you give Orders but for One Hundred Pounds Sterl.

当我经营种植园的计划稍有眉目时，我的朋友，就是在海上救我的船长，又回来了。这次他的船是停在这儿装货的，货装完后再出航，航程将持续三个月左右。我告诉他，我在伦敦还有一笔小小的资本；他给了我一个友好而又诚恳的建议。"英国先生，"他说，他一直这么叫我的，你写封信，再给我一份正式委托书请那位在伦敦替你保管存款的人把钱汇到里斯本，交给我所指定的人，再用那笔钱办一些这儿有用的货物。我回来时，如果上帝保佑，就可替你一起运来。可是，天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福，我建议你动用你一半的资本，也就是一百英镑，冒一下险。

A Belgian teenager is suing a tattooist for 10,000 after claiming she woke up with 56 stars on her face.

一名比利时少女向一名刺青师傅求偿一万英镑，理由是她醒来时，脸上有56颗星星。

"I have examined a file of each of the newspapers published in Chelmsford and Colchester," continued Robert, without replying to my lady's last observation, and I find in one of the Colchester papers, dated July the 2nd, 1857, a brief paragraph among numerous miscellaneous scraps of information copied from other newspapers, to the effect that a Mr. George Talboys, an English gentleman, had arrived at Sydney from the gold-fields, carrying with him nuggets and gold-dust to the amount of twenty thousand pounds, and that he had realised his property and sailed for Liverpool in the fast-sailing clipper Arqus.

&我曾查阅了分别在切尔姆斯福特和科尔切斯特出版的报纸的两份合订本，&罗伯特没理睬爵士夫人的最后那句话，迳自继续说下去，我在一八五七年七月二日出版的科尔切斯特报纸上看到：在许多从别的报上抄来的各式各样的短讯之中，有那么短短的一段新闻，大意说：有一位乔治·托尔博伊斯先生，一位英国绅士，从金矿地带到达悉尼，身边带着金块和金砂，价值达两万英镑，他已将金块等兑换成现款，乘坐快速班船'百眼巨神号'前往利物浦。

I got the prize of One Kerosine Lamp, One Blanket, Bottle of Cinzano and 20 shillings or one English Pound.

第二年的比赛，我在108人中得了第一名，为此我得到的奖品是：一盏煤油灯，一条毛毯，一瓶沁扎诺酒和20先令（1英镑）的奖金。

Next to a cook for a price of 80 pounds of lobster裹上gold, the other four chefs skillfully hollowed out shell of quail eggs only, fill in caviar.

旁边一名厨师为一只售价八十英镑的龙虾裹上金箔，另一名厨师熟练地挖空四只有壳的鹌鹑蛋，填入鱼子酱。

Neither the killing of Mr Zarqawi nor any breakthrough on the political front will stop the insurgency and the fratricidal murders in their tracks.

在对危险的南部地区访问时，他斥责什叶派民兵领导人对中央集权的挑衅行为。

In fact,I've got him on the satellite mobile right now.

实际上 我们已接通卫星可视电话了