sixpence
英 [ˈsɪkspəns] 美 [ˈsɪkspəns]

n.

六便士银币，六便士；

变形

复数：sixpences

英英释义

sixpence[ 'sikspəns ]

• n.a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970

  同义词：tanner

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. The book costs sixpence.
   这本书价值六便士。
2. Wages were sixpence a week within living memory.
   周工资为六便士的年代，人们记忆犹新。
3. On him way to the sweet shop, he dropped his sixpence and it rolled along the pavement and then disappeared down a drain.
   他在去糖果店的路上，把钱掉到地上了，硬币沿着人行道滚动，掉进阴沟里去了。

权威例句

Sixpence
Sixpence
The Moon and sixpence
Lousy Little Sixpence
The moon and sixpence : a defense of mereological universalism
A Book for a Sixpence: The Circulating Library in America by David Kaser
‘The last acre and sixpence’: views on bank liability regimes in nineteenth-century Britain
Fiction as Fantasy: The Unreliable Narrator in The Moon and Sixpence
FANTASY AS NECESSITY: THE ROLE OF THE BIOGRAPHER IN "THE MOON AND SIXPENCE"
Conflicts Between Ideality And Reality——Review on The Theme of Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence