sixpence

1 Next week, boys and girls, and don’t forget the sixpence for the little black boy.

2 A dead fish, which turns out to have swallowed a Victorian sixpence, leads to an encounter with something alien, powerful, dangerous, though not entirely malign.

3 An old woman was sweeping her house, and she found a little crooked sixpence.

一个老奶奶在打扫她的房子，她发现了一枚弯曲的六便士硬币。

4 They offer him sixpence for his trouble but he waves it away and they hand it to Mam because he’s too grand to be taking sixpence.

5 De Hales left Basilia, gave up his shop, and sold all of his possessions, including two feather beds, and some pots and utensils worth two shillings and sixpence.

6 But size, like sentiment, can turn a sixpence.

但就像人气一样, 规模也会有起有落.

7 He took sixpence from the palm of her hand and went to the counter to pay.

他从她手心里拿了六便士到柜台付了钱。

8 After a fierce bidding war, a book that was priced on publication at just seven shillings and sixpence eventually sold for £40,630 to book dealer Christian Jonkers from Jonkers Rare Books.

9 I don’t want to stay in this place where Mrs. O’Connor can’t take the sixpence herself instead of letting me nearly lose my hand in the black boy’s mouth.

10 Photograph: Sam Frost for the Guardian When the first Penguin paperbacks appeared they cost just sixpence – the price of a packet of cigarettes – and were hardly intended to be enduring items.

11 I’ll be back next week and if you don’t have the money, one pound eight shillings and sixpence total, ’tis out on the pavement you’ll be with the skies dripping on your furniture.

12 Additionally, in advance of Radiohead release on Tuesday, certain British fans were sent fliers that read, “Sing the song of sixpence that goes burn the witch,” and “We know where you live.”

13 It doesn't matter sixpence.

这不要紧.

14 I began to visit their collection of Crown records and with the thought of the princely sum being spent on me, it meant I could have four records costing sixpence each.

15 Wages were sixpence a week within living memory.

周工资为六便士的年代，人们记忆犹新。

16 And Julian Groves, 59, who served with the Royal Army Medical Corps for 11 years, discovered a lucky sixpence coin put inside one of the puddings during the royal mixing session.

17 He turns on a sixpence and it is quite mesmerising to watch.

18 They accepted it and paid me seven shillings and sixpence.

19 It looked like a love story. But love, as she said, could turn on a sixpence.

看起来这是个爱情故事，但是如罗斯说，爱情会风云突变。

20 Inside, there's a surprise – not a sixpence, but a collection of sharp little barbs and nails.

1 六便士

sixpenny six sprat sixer

2 六便士硬币

tanner

3 六辨士

tanner sow's baby

4 便士

P sixpenny tanner fourpence l.s.d. D

5 六便士铜币

sprat

6 微不足道的东西

fingerling