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farthing n.1.法新〔1961年以前的英國銅幣,等于四分之一便士...

Although bicycle races had been held on the old “ penny farthings “ , the new bikes stimulated the growth of bicycle racing as a sport . cycling at the olympics features three exciting disciplines : road , track and mountain biking 雖然在此以前已經有使用老式4 : 1式自行車的前輪尺寸是后輪的4倍自行車賽,但現代自行車的出現刺激了自行車賽向競技體育方面發展。

“ these factors suggest that , sooner or later , the penny will join the farthing ( 11 ) ( one - quarter of a penny ) and the hapenny ( 12 ) ( one - half of a penny ) in coin museums , “ he said 他說: “這些事實都說明,一分硬幣早晚會加入四分之一美分和半美分的行列?被送入硬幣博物館。 ”

“ nothing else was talked of ; only some said he was worth millions , and others that he did not possess a farthing . “老是聽人談到那方面的事,只是有些人說他有幾百萬,而有些人則說,他連一個大子兒都不趁。 ”

“ no , “ said her father , “ wickham s a fool , if he takes her with a farthing less than ten thousand pounds 父親說: “韋翰要是拿不到一萬鎊就答應娶麗迪雅,那他才是個大傻瓜呢。

Answered heathcliff ; “ but his life is not worth a farthing , and i won t spend a farthing on him . 希刺克厲夫回答,可是他的生命一文不值,我也不要在他身上再花一個銅子兒啦!

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Her laughter made a love of a little dimple appear in her chin . she stood there waiting , not bored in the least , familiar with her audience , falling into step with them at once , as though she herself were admitting with a wink that she had not two farthings worth of talent but that it did not matter at all , that , in fact , she had other good points 這個漂亮的姑娘,仍然有吸引人之處,她一笑,下巴上就出現一個逗人的小酒窩,她等待著,毫無拘束,隨隨便便,很快就與觀眾融洽起來她眨眨眼睛,似乎自己在說,演戲的本領連一個子兒都不值,然而,這倒沒關系,她還具備別的長處。

It was the same feeling that impels the volunteer - recruit to drink up his last farthing , the drunken man to smash looking - glasses and window - panes for no apparent cause , though he knows it will cost him his little all ; the feeling through which a man in doing things , vulgarly speaking , senseless , as it were , proves his personal force and power , by manifesting the presence of a higher standard of judging life , outside mere human limitations 使一個志愿兵喝光最后一個戈比,使一個喝醉酒的人毫無道理地砸碎鏡子和玻璃,而他不是不知道這將賠光他所有的金錢的,就是那種感情使一個人在做在壞的意義上的瘋狂的事時,仿佛在嘗試他個人的權力和力量。同時聲稱有一種超于人世之外的作為生活的最高主宰意識,就是那種感情。

A course that lay between undue clemency and excessive rigour : the dispensation in a heterogeneous society of arbitrary classes , incessantly rearranged in terms of greater and lesser social inequality of unbiassed homogeneous indisputable justice , tempered with mitigants of the widest possible latitude but exactable to the uttermost farthing with confiscation of estate , real and personal , to the crown 方針要介乎過分的寬大與過于苛刻之間。在這個有著不自然的等級制度社會上的不平等不斷地或增或減變動不已參差不的社會里,要實行公平一視同仁無可爭辯的正義,也就是說,一方面盡可能廣泛地采取寬大政策,另一方面又為王國政府錙銖必較地橫征暴斂,包括沒收動產及不動產。

Why not bring in henry grattan and flood and demosthenes and edmund burke ? ignatius gallaher we all know and his chapelizod boss , harmsworth of the farthing press , and his american cousin of the bowery gutter sheet not to mention paddy kelly s budget , pue s occurrences and our watchful friend the skibereen eagle 我們全都曉得伊格內修斯加拉赫,還有他那個老板,在查佩利佐德出版小報的哈姆斯沃思178再有就是他那個出版鮑厄里通俗報紙的美國堂弟179 。

The limno2 synthesized by sol - gel method was orthorhombic phase and pmnm space group , with farthing impurity of mn2o3 。 the result of sem showed that the size of flake was about 1 ~ 2 m , the thickness of flake was about 50 ~ 100nm . the highest discharge capacity is 170 . 7mah / g 溶膠凝膠法所得limno2材料的xrd結果顯示,該材料為斜方晶系, pmnm空間群,有極少量mn2o3雜質; sem結果顯示其片層尺寸大約在1 ~ 2 m ,厚度大約為50 ~ 100nm 。

The train was about to start from allahabad , and mr fogg proceeded to pay the guide the price agreed for his service , and not a farthing more ; which astonished passepartout , who remembered all that this master owed to the guide s devotion 福克先生按照他應得的錢如數支付,連一分錢也沒多給。這使路路通感到有點奇怪,因為他估計他的主人對向導的忠誠幫助總該表示一點謝意的。

Although bicycle races had been held on the old “ penny farthings “ , the new bikes stimulated the growth of bicycle racing as a sport . cycling at the olympics features three exciting disciplines : road , track and mountain biking 雖然在此以前已經有使用老式4 : 1式自行車的前輪尺寸是后輪的4倍自行車賽,但現代自行車的出現刺激了自行車賽向競技體育方面發展。

Hunger rattled its dry bones among the roasting chestnuts in the turned cylinder ; hunger was shred into atomies in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato , fried with some reluctant drops of oil 饑餓在旋轉的鐵筒里的烤板栗中搖著它焦干的骨頭嗒嗒作響。饑餓被切成了一個銅板一小碗的極薄的干洋芋片,用極不情愿花掉的幾滴油炒著。

They lives rough and they risk swinging , but they eat and drink like fighting cocks , and when a cruise is done , why , it s hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets 他們艱難地生活著,冒著被絞死的危險,但是他們卻像斗雞般地吃喝著,而一旦一次航行結束了,他們口袋里成百的鋼蹦兒就會換成成百上千的金鑄。

So do you see he looked with a merry and good - humoured smile at his cloak and boots i am in rags , and havent a farthing ; so i had meant to ask the count mavra kuzminishna did not let him finish 現在,您瞧見沒有他友好地愉快地微笑著看了自己的大衣和皮靴,都穿破了,可錢又沒有,我想請求伯爵”

Doctor , when a man s steering as near the wind as me - playing chuck - farthing with the last breath in his body , like - you wouldn t think it too much , mayhap , to give him one good word 你盡可以相信我,大夫,當一個人像我這樣豁出命來孤注一擲的時候,想聽幾句貼心話,還不至于讓你多想吧。

Nor trivial loss , nor trivial gain despise . molehills , if often heap ' d , to moutains rise . weigh every small expence , and nothing waste . farthings long sav ' d , amount to pounds at last 別忽視細微的損失或收益。鼴鼠丘日積月累,終成大山。小小開支細加掂量,毫不浪費。分幣久攢,終成大鈔。

“ these factors suggest that , sooner or later , the penny will join the farthing ( 11 ) ( one - quarter of a penny ) and the hapenny ( 12 ) ( one - half of a penny ) in coin museums , “ he said 他說: “這些事實都說明,一分硬幣早晚會加入四分之一美分和半美分的行列?被送入硬幣博物館。 ”

He had spent every farthing that had been allowed for his journey as a reward for the majestic and solemn manner in which he had maintained his assumed character of father 他這次出門旅行,把用威嚴的態度扮演一個父親所得的報酬花得一干二凈。