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pennies

/pen-ee/US // ˈpɛn i //

便士,一分钱,分币,一分钱硬币

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a female given name, form of Penelope.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • One customer retooled a Nintendo Wii with its innards switched out for glued pennies.

  • His inheritance, which ran to millions of Deutschmarks, was worth only pennies after the raging post-war inflation.

  • Private companies want to pay their workers pennies an hour?

  • I remember her showing me how to turn a bleach bottle into a piggy bank for saving pennies.

  • But it makes money by taking a few pennies out of every dollar transaction.

  • And he didn't forget about old Black-eyed Susan's great jump, nor the gold pennies, either.

  • And from his sack he drew forth another great handful of gold pennies.

  • And he reached his hand inside the sack on his back, and pulled out a fistful of bright gold pennies—oh, such a lot of them!

  • Of course I knew what he was after; he wanted my pennies; so I just ambled off, and very soon outdistanced him.

  • Do not keep unfortunate little children's feet dangling all through their school years to save a few pennies on school furniture.