半便士硬币

On the middle shelf a chipped eggcup containing pepper, a drum of table salt, four conglomerated black olives in oleaginous paper, an empty pot of Plumtree's potted meat, an oval wicker basket bedded with fibre and containing one Jersey pear, a halfempty bottle of William Gilbey and Co's white invalid port, half disrobed of its swathe of coralpink tissue paper, a packet of Epps's soluble cocoa, five ounces of Anne Lynch's choice tea at 2/- per lb in a crinkled leadpaper bag, a cylindrical canister containing the best crystallised lump sugar, two onions, one, the larger, Spanish, entire, the other, smaller, Irish, bisected with augmented surface and more redolent, a jar of Irish Model Dairy's cream, a jug of brown crockery containing a naggin and a quarter of soured adulterated milk, converted by heat into water, acidulous serum and semisolidified curds, which added to the quantity subtracted for Mr Bloom's and Mrs Fleming's breakfasts, made one imperial pint, the total quantity originally delivered, two cloves, a halfpenny and a small dish containing a slice of fresh ribsteak.

还有一个小玻璃瓶，里面装着加了芳香剂的糖果。中层放着一只盛了胡椒粉的有缺口的蛋杯，饭桌上还摆着那种鼓状食盐瓶，用油纸包着的四颗粘成一团的黑色橄榄，一听李树商标肉罐头的空罐儿，垫着纤丝的椭圆形柳条筐里是一只泽西梨，喝剩下的半瓶威廉。吉尔比公司釀造的药用白葡萄酒（裹在瓶子上的粉珊瑚色薄绘纸已剥掉了一半），一包埃普斯公司制造的速溶可可；一只绉锡纸袋里装着安妮。林奇公司出品的五英两特级茶叶，每磅二先令；一只圆筒形罐子，盛着优质结晶角沙糖；两颗葱头，较大的那颗西班牙种的是完整的，较小的那颗爱尔兰种的已经切成两瓣儿，面积扩大了，气味也更冲鼻了；一罐爱尔兰模范奶场的奶酪，一只褐色陶罐，盛着四分之一品脱零四分之一兑了水并变酸了的牛奶（由于炎热，它已化为水、酸性乳浆与半固体凝乳，再加上布卢姆先生和弗莱明大妈作为早餐消费掉的部分，就足够一英品脱了，相当于原先送来的总量）；两朵丁香花蕾，一枚半便士硬币和盛有一片新鲜排骨肉的一个小碟子。

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。

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％。