释义 |
sixpencesix‧pence /ˈsɪkspəns/ noun [countable, uncountable] - Anyway I was given sixpence, fourpence for the papers and tuppence for myself.
- It costs five shillings and sixpence to go round, and you need an awful lot of those to mend two acres of roof.
- Sam Fong had contributed three shillings sixpence to the cause.
- This one had cost him sixpence, a lot out of his ten shillings a week wages, but it was worth it.
- We will make them work hard for sixpence a day, Though a shilling they deserve if they had their just pay.
- You're fined sixpence for lip.
- You bet him sixpence he could not eat a maggot and he promptly swallowed a live one and grabbed your tanner.
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