penny是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 the smallest unit of money in the UK, of which there are 100 in a pound, or a small coin worth this much. You use "pence" or, more informally, "p" when you are talking about the units of money and pennies when you are talking about the coins themselves. -- （英國）便士（最小的貨幣單位，100便士為1英鎊，表示幣值時用 pence 或在非正式場合也可用 p，而表示硬幣本身時用 pennies）

  • Could you lend me 50 pence/50p please? 你能借50便士給我嗎？

  • I found a ten/twenty/fifty pence piece (= a coin of this value) on the floor. 我在地上撿到了一枚面值10／20／50便士的硬幣。

  • I keep pennies and other small coins in a jar. 我把便士和其他小硬幣放在一個罐子裡。

  • Buy a TV now and it won't cost you a penny (= will cost nothing) for three months. 現在買一台電視，三個月不用付一分錢。

  • It was an expensive meal but worth every penny. 這頓飯很貴，但每分錢都很值得。

• 1 used in the past with numbers to show how many pence something cost -- （舊時的用法）值…便士的

  • a fourpenny ice-cream 一份四便士的霜淇淋