四分之一便士

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。

A contract with an inconsiderate contractee for the delivery of 32 consignments of some given commodity in consideration of cash payment on delivery per delivery at the initial rate of 1/4d to be increased constantly in the geometrical progression of 2 (1/4d, 1/2d, 1d, 2d, 4d, 8d, 1s 4d, 2s 8d to 32 terms).

与一个粗心的订约者签订一份商业合同：作为三十二件商品的运送费，第一件只收四分之一便士，自第二件起，以二的几何级数递增（四分之一便士，二分之一便士，一便士，二便士，四便士，八便士，一先令四便士，二先令八便士，一直递增到第三十二件）。

I didn't watch TV last night, because it .

昨晚我没有看电视，因为电视机坏了。

Since this year, in a lot of villages of Beijing, TV of elevator liquid crystal was removed.

今年以来，在北京的很多小区里，电梯液晶电视被撤了下来。