英语词汇“penny lecture”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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penny lecture

penny lecture n.

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1852 Eliza Cook's Jrnl. 22 May 57/2 The power of the Penny has only been discovered of late years. The Penny Magazine, and the Penny Cyclopædia, fairly inaugurated the discovery. Penny Lectures are the necessary corollary from it.

1935 Times 1 Oct. 11/1 The old idea of popular science—as it was to be found in the penny lectures and the weekly journals—was a miscellaneous assortment of facts.

2003 Frankston (Melbourne) Standard Leader (Nexis) 7 July 29 In 1873, when Frankston was just a fishing village of 30 people, some of their number met to form a mechanics' institute. To raise money, members gave penny lectures in the old St Paul's Hall.

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单词	penny lecture
释义	> as lemmas penny lecture penny lecture n. ΚΠ 1852 Eliza Cook's Jrnl. 22 May 57/2 The power of the Penny has only been discovered of late years. The Penny Magazine, and the Penny Cyclopædia, fairly inaugurated the discovery. Penny Lectures are the necessary corollary from it. 1935 Times 1 Oct. 11/1 The old idea of popular science—as it was to be found in the penny lectures and the weekly journals—was a miscellaneous assortment of facts. 2003 Frankston (Melbourne) Standard Leader (Nexis) 7 July 29 In 1873, when Frankston was just a fishing village of 30 people, some of their number met to form a mechanics' institute. To raise money, members gave penny lectures in the old St Paul's Hall. extracted from pennyn. < as lemmas
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