sixpenny

英

美

网络  不值钱的; 廉价的; 六便士

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英英释义

adj

• of trifling worth
  Synonym:threepennytwopennytuppenytwo-a-pennytwopenny-halfpenny

双语例句

• It's a book he bought second-hand, years ago, off a sixpenny stall.
  那是他几年前从一个廉价书摊上买来的一本旧书。
• ` penny 'is a combining form in such expressions as` sixpenny cakes'.
  在诸如‘六便士的蛋糕’的表达中，‘penny’是一个构词成分。
• Who could have ever expected that a dragoon would drink sixpenny ale, smoke horrid bird's-eye tobacco, and let his wife wear a shabby bonnet?
  谁能料到一个龙骑兵会喝六便士一瓶的啤酒，抽蹩脚得可怕的鸟眼牌烟草，会让他的妻子戴一顶破破烂烂的帽子啊？