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单词 tael
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Definition of tael in English:

tael

noun teɪltāl
  • 1A weight used in China and East Asia, of varying amount but fixed in China at 50 grams (13/4 oz.).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Due to the intercession of Russia, Germany and France, the Manchurian government paid Japan 300 million taels of silver to ‘reclaim’ Liaotung.
    • Once each year, I would travel to Ping's father and pay him an annual remuneration of twenty taels of silver, which amounted to less than thirteen American dollars.
    • The garden's building project lasted 10 years and cost Gu more than 10,000 taels of silver.
    • Though the victim of this armed aggression, China was forced to pay the aggressor 21 million taels of silver in ‘war reparation’ and opened five trading ports.
    • The savvy businessman demanded a high annual rent of 50,000 taels of silver, and after 30 years, he wanted the Kwok family to return both the land and the store to his interests.
    1. 1.1 A former Chinese monetary unit based on the value of a tael of standard silver.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The construction fee plus the cost of equipment reached over 50,000 tael.
      • Because of their ability to provide arbitrage among the complex monies of China, they coexisted with modern banks until the reorganization of the currency in 1933 to a silver dollar rather than the Chinese tael.
      • It invested over 773,000 taels to reconstruct the shipbuilding factory.
      • Nevertheless her indebtedness should not be exaggerated; the ill consequences were more the result of China's inelastic revenue system than of the real burden of foreign debt, which amounted only to one tael per capita.
      • The two businessmen proposed that they lease the market from the Municipal Council of the French Concession for 500 taels in tax a year for 10 years.
      • For example, following the offer of its shares to the public, the capital increased from 476,000 taels in 1874 to two million taels in 1884.
      • The one-and-a-half-million tael facility was donated anonymously to the municipality by a British businessman, believed to be a leading philanthropist of the time.
      • He believes that even craftsmen and laborers above the lowest level, who generally made 1.5 tael or so a month plus payments in kind, could afford books, but this assumes that they could save a tael a month.
      • In 1910, 16 other Britons accumulated 16,000 taels and bought the Dalla Horse Repository, located at the present crossroad of Hongqiao Lu and Hami Lu, to change it into a club.
      • Its total capital expenditure reached 2 million taels in 1882 and 2.3 million taels in 1891.
      • In 1877, it was bought by the Chinese Merchant Steam Navigation Co for 220 million tael.
      • But the price had skyrocketed so much that her entire savings converted into just a few measly taels.

Origin

From Malay tahil 'weight'.

 
 

Definition of tael in US English:

tael

nountāl
  • 1A weight used in China and East Asia, of varying amount but fixed in China at 50 grams (13/4 oz.).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The savvy businessman demanded a high annual rent of 50,000 taels of silver, and after 30 years, he wanted the Kwok family to return both the land and the store to his interests.
    • The garden's building project lasted 10 years and cost Gu more than 10,000 taels of silver.
    • Due to the intercession of Russia, Germany and France, the Manchurian government paid Japan 300 million taels of silver to ‘reclaim’ Liaotung.
    • Though the victim of this armed aggression, China was forced to pay the aggressor 21 million taels of silver in ‘war reparation’ and opened five trading ports.
    • Once each year, I would travel to Ping's father and pay him an annual remuneration of twenty taels of silver, which amounted to less than thirteen American dollars.
    1. 1.1 A former Chinese monetary unit based on the value of a tael of standard silver.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The one-and-a-half-million tael facility was donated anonymously to the municipality by a British businessman, believed to be a leading philanthropist of the time.
      • It invested over 773,000 taels to reconstruct the shipbuilding factory.
      • Its total capital expenditure reached 2 million taels in 1882 and 2.3 million taels in 1891.
      • Nevertheless her indebtedness should not be exaggerated; the ill consequences were more the result of China's inelastic revenue system than of the real burden of foreign debt, which amounted only to one tael per capita.
      • He believes that even craftsmen and laborers above the lowest level, who generally made 1.5 tael or so a month plus payments in kind, could afford books, but this assumes that they could save a tael a month.
      • The construction fee plus the cost of equipment reached over 50,000 tael.
      • In 1910, 16 other Britons accumulated 16,000 taels and bought the Dalla Horse Repository, located at the present crossroad of Hongqiao Lu and Hami Lu, to change it into a club.
      • Because of their ability to provide arbitrage among the complex monies of China, they coexisted with modern banks until the reorganization of the currency in 1933 to a silver dollar rather than the Chinese tael.
      • But the price had skyrocketed so much that her entire savings converted into just a few measly taels.
      • The two businessmen proposed that they lease the market from the Municipal Council of the French Concession for 500 taels in tax a year for 10 years.
      • For example, following the offer of its shares to the public, the capital increased from 476,000 taels in 1874 to two million taels in 1884.
      • In 1877, it was bought by the Chinese Merchant Steam Navigation Co for 220 million tael.

Origin

From Malay tahil ‘weight’.

 
 
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