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halfpenny n. 短語和例子(pl. halfpence , hal...

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On the lower shelf five vertical breakfast plates , six horizontal breakfast saucers on which rested inverted breakfast cups , a moustachecup , uninverted , and saucer of crown derby , four white goldrimmed eggcups , and open shammy purse displaying coins , mostly copper , and a phial of aromatic violet comfits . 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 noggin 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 中層放著一只盛了胡椒粉的有缺口的蛋杯,飯桌上還擺著那種鼓狀食鹽瓶,用油紙包著的四顆粘成一團的黑色橄欖,一聽李樹商標肉罐頭36的空罐兒,墊著纖絲的橢圓形柳條筐里是一只澤西37梨,喝剩下的半瓶威廉吉爾比公司38釀造的藥用白葡萄酒裹在瓶子上的粉珊瑚色薄繪紙已剝掉了一半,一包埃普斯公司制造的速溶可可一只縐錫紙袋里裝著安妮林奇公司39出品的五英兩特級茶葉,每磅二先令一只圓筒形罐子,盛著優質結晶角沙糖兩顆蔥頭,較大的那顆西班牙種的是完整的,較小的那顆愛爾蘭種的已經切成兩瓣兒,面積擴大了,氣味也更沖鼻了一罐愛爾蘭模范奶場的奶酪,一只褐色陶罐,盛著四分之一品脫零四分之一兌了水并變酸了的牛奶由于炎熱,它已化為水酸性乳漿與半固體凝乳,再加上布盧姆先生和弗萊明大媽40作為早餐消費掉的部分,就足夠一英品脫了,相當于原先送來的總量兩朵丁香花蕾,一枚半便士硬幣和盛有一片新鮮排骨肉的一個小碟子。

Contents are likewise clear indicators of who ' s who by what ' s what : fish scales and crayfish parts suggest otter , says halfpenny in his field guide 同樣地,成份也是明顯指標,因為某些動物吃的就是某些食物,哈夫彭尼在他的野外指南寫道:如果內含魚鱗和螯蝦殼,表示是水獺的。

Bangladesh has an army , but it is a twopenny halfpenny affair kept deliberately weak , with the security forces split into three separate groups 孟加拉國擁有一支軍隊,但是由于安全部隊分裂成三個獨立的派別,這支軍隊微不足道,并且有意使之弱小。

Most shopkeepers don ' t like halfpennies and would even prefer to round their prices down if they can ' t round them up to the next penny 大多數店主不喜歡價格上出現半便士,如果不能將價格升到上一整數,他們就寧愿把價格降到下一整數。

Susan felt sure that she knew exactly the price of everything on the list and would count the change to the last halfpenny when she returned 蘇珊有把握自己知道單子上每樣東西的確切價錢,回家后定會把找回的錢一分一厘都清點清楚。

He was sent away and , a few days later , brought back , like the bad halfpenny 他被送走了,可沒過幾天,又像沒用的贗幣一樣被退回來了。

She bought a halfpenny stamp 她買了一枚半便士的郵票。

Only in the halfpenny place 只不過是撮堆兒真的貨色! ”

We managed to run the coveted pennies and halfpennies to earth . 我們東翻西找,好不容易找到幾枚一便士和半便士的硬幣。

Turn up again like a bad halfpenny . 來得不是時候。

Come back again like a bad halfpenny . 來得不是時候。