Sterling

(noun.) British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK.

迪莉娅编辑

• Sixteen shillings sterling, we are told by Mr Byron, was the price of a good horse in the capital of Chili. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• He thinks I am perfect: furnished with all sorts of sterling qualities and solid virtues, such as I never had, nor intend to have. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• On the 13th of September General Sterling Price entered Iuka, a town about twenty miles east of Corinth on the Memphis and Charleston railroad. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• This whim suited me the better at this time, from the cheapness of it, not costing us above eighteen pence sterling each per week. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The silver thus deposited, is absolutely pure--finer, in fact, than any articles of sterling silver. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In 1723, the whole importation from Britain to Pennsylvania was but about ?15,000 sterling; it is now near half a million. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The value of the paper thus produced is calculated to exceed two millions sterling. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The whole value of the gold and silver, therefore, which circulated in Scotland before the Union, cannot be estimated at less than a million sterling. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The person who works the lace of a pair of fine ruffles for example, will sometimes raise the value of, perhaps, a pennyworth of flax to ?30 sterling. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It replaced in many households pewter ware which, until the introduction of Sheffield plate, was the best substitute for sterling silver. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Three sestertii equal to about sixpence sterling, was the price which the republic paid for the modius or peck of the tithe wheat of Sicily. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Pope and Edison invented a one-wire printer, and started a system of 'gold printers' devoted to the recording of gold quotations and sterling exchange only. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Blandois' drafts at sight to the extent of, say Fifty Pounds sterling (50_l_. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• You speak of that annuity in pounds sterling, but it is in reality so many pounds of beefsteaks and so many pints of porter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• When their master has occasion for their labour, he gives them, besides, two pecks of oatmeal a-week, worth about sixteen pence sterling. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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