penny怎么读,penny的音标和真人发音
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penny是什么意思,penny的意思是

n.便士;(美国、加拿大的)一分钱;少量的钱
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penny的词源和记忆技巧

penny 便士
来自古英语penig,便士,来自Proto-Germanic*panninggaz,便士,可能借自拉丁语panna,小盘子,词源同pan.即形如小盘子。

penny 的用法和双语例句“点击”或“选中”例句中的单词,就可以看到词义解释

The penny is just the latest in a series of coins to disappear after centuries of use .
便士只是经过几个世纪使用之后消失的一系列硬币中最新消失的一种。
I rub my scars the way other people fret a rabbit 's foot or burnish a lucky penny .
我抚摸自己疤痕的方式,就像其他烦恼之人抚摸兔脚或幸运便士一样。
Recycling is tricky : just half a penny 's worth of neodymium helps a mobile phone vibrate .
回收稀土是个两难的选择:因为使一部手机震动所需的钕元素仅仅值半个便士。
As osbornite austerity bites , local authorities will want to squeeze every penny they can from enforcing parking regulations .
由于osbornite紧缩带来剧痛,地方政府希望将来能从实施停车规定中节省出每一便士。
Each company could capture the entire market by undercutting by a penny , and the process of undercutting would only stop when prices fell to the cost of production .
每家公司都可以以比竞争对手低一便士的价格来占领整个市场,这种抢生意的定价过程只有在价格降至生产成本的时候才会停止。
Aware of petrol 's political potency , in march mr osborne cut duty by a penny per litre and delayed a further 3p of rises .
意识到石油政治的潜力,奥斯本先生在三月份削减了1便士/升的燃油税,并推迟了3p的进一步上涨。
My cross-country flight adds fractions of a penny to everyone else 's cost .
我的越野飞行在每一个人的费用上增加了几分之一的便士。
It 's a penny broadside , a predecessor to the tabloid newspaper , recording the nasty murder of a young woman in the 1840s .
这是张当时价值一便士的单面印刷的纸张,是小报的前身,记录了19世纪40年代一个年轻女人被谋杀的令人恶心事件。
Christmas cards date back to the 1840 advent of the uniform penny post , which standardised the cost of sending mail in the uk .
圣诞卡可追溯到1840年统一便士邮政(uniformpennypost)的出现,此项改革实现了英国境内邮件递送费用的标准化。
You seem to think supermarkets have offered customers a penny discount because they were run by kind people .
你似乎认为过去超市为顾客打折1便士,是因为经营者很好心。