先令

• Here's a generous spirit to scorn scraped-up shillings !
  这儿有一位慷慨豪爽人物，居然看不起收集先令来了！
• The governor will not give you a shilling to start you in london .
  老板不会给你一先令让你上伦敦去开业的。
• I can't help you any more. every shilling of my money is tied up .
  我不能再帮忙了，我的每一个先令都派了用处。
• So samson, who earned a pound a month, was docked two shillings .
  于是萨姆逊一个月一镑的薪金给扣除了两个先令。
• He had been a witness to our bargain and to my payment of the five shillings .
  他是亲眼看见我们的约定，也看见我付了五个先令的。
• My godmother never gives me anything but a mingy ten shillings at christmas .
  我的教母除了在圣诞节很吝啬地给我十个先令外，什么也不给我。
• If she had only a shilling in the world, she would be very likely to give away sixpence of it .
  假设在世界上她有一个先令的话，她会捐出六个便士的。
• He would not hazard a shilling of mine till he had made the experiment with a little .
  他不愿拿我的一个先令去冒险，必定要等他先拿一小笔款子试验一下。
• In england he had seized a great mining corporation without investing a shilling .
  在英国，他没有投资一个先令，居然把一家规模宏大的采矿公司弄到了手。
• As she came to those who had not obeyed her summons that first day, she deducted half a crown .
  对那些在第一天不服从她命令的人，她扣除了他们每人两个半先令。