便士

A penny." Aberdonian take out half penny to hand tonsorial:"If you are disrelished little, you can return my mustache I.

一个便士。"苏格兰人拿出半个便士递给理发师："要是你嫌少，你可以把我的胡子还我。

I have one pound seventeen here, and two and six at the office; I can cut off my coffee at the office, say ten shillings, making two nine and six, with your eighteen and three makes three nine seven, with five naught naught in my cheque-book makes eight nine seven -- who is that moving?

他央求说，我这儿有一镑十七先令，在办公室还有两先令六便士；办公室的咖啡我可以取消，就算省下十先令吧，就有两镑九先令六便士。

His wages were now advanced to sixpence a day, and afterwards to eightpence when he was set to drive the Gin-horse.

他的工资上升到每天六便士，后来他被安排去驾驶马拉滑车，工资升到八便士。

"Twelve shillings for the furniture and oilcloth, one pound four and one penny for the General District and Special Rates, and one pound one and fivepence halfpenny for Poor Rate."

"家具和油布十二先令，统税和特税一镑四先令一便士，济贫税一镑一先令五个半便士。"

Each demanded some payment that was overdue: twelve shillings for the furniture and oilcloth; one pound four and one penny for the General District and Special Rates; and one pound one and fivepence halfpenny for Poor Rate.

三封信都是催债的，而且每项款都已经过了期。家具和油布十二先令；统税和特税一镑四先令一便士；济贫税一镑一先令五个半便士。

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。

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。

The caul was won, I recollect, by an old lady with a hand-basket, who, very reluctantly, produced from it the stipulated five shillings, all in halfpence, and twopence halfpenny short—as it took an immense time and a great waste of arithmetic, to endeavour without any effect to prove to her.

我还记得，胎膜让一位手里拎一个篮子的老太太给抽着了。她万个不情愿地从篮子里摸索出预先规定的五个先令，全都是半便士的零碎硬币，而且最后还差两个半便士——因为尽管是给她解释了老半天，一分分算给他听，都无济于事。

Cadbury shares initially rose to 808.95 pence on Wednesday, the highest since its 2008 soft drinks demerger and well above Kraft's cash-and-share offer worth about 730 pence, but have drifted back and were at 795 pence by 1308 GMT on Thursday.

周三，吉百利股价一开始上涨到每股808.95便士，是自2008年软饮料业务拆分以后的最高价，而且也远远高于卡夫现金加股票的收购案的报价730便士。但是，随后其股价回落，截至周四GMT13：08，股价为每股795便士。

The English pound and penny contain at present about a third only; the Scots pound and penny about a thirty-sixth; and the French pound and penny about a sixty-sixth part of their original value.

英格兰的镑和便士现在只含原值的大约三分之一；苏格兰的镑和便士只含原值的大约三十六分之一；而法国的镑和便士只含原值的六十六分之一。

Breath, muscle contraction of the buttocks; arch body, as far as possible to hold his head, right leg straight towards the ceiling (peg-leg knee in order to avoid muscle tension).

呼气，收缩臀部肌肉；拱起身体，尽量抬起头来，右腿伸直朝向天花板（膝微屈，以避免肌肉紧张）。

The cost of moving grain food products was unchanged from May, but year over year are up 8%.

粮食产品的运输费用与5月份相比没有变化，但却比去年同期高8％。