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 farthing ['fɑ:ðiŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 法寻(1/4便士), 不值钱的东西

  1. People don't use farthings now.
    人们现在不用法寻了。
  2. The ancestor of the modern bicycle was called a penny farthing.
    现代自行车的原型叫做‘前轮大後轮小的自行车’.
  3. The ancestor of the modern bicycle is called a penny farthing.
    现代自行车的原型叫做‘前轮大後轮小的自行车’。


farthing
[ noun ]
a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny
<noun.possession>


Farthing \Far"thing\, n. [OE. furthing, AS. fe['o]r[eth]ung, fr.
fe['o]r[eth]a fourth, fe['o]r, fe['o]wer, four. See {Four}.]
1. The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great
Britain, being a cent in United States currency.

2. A very small quantity or value. [Obs.]

In her cup was no farthing seen of grease.
--Chaucer.

3. A division of land. [Obs.]

Thirty acres make a farthing land; nine farthings a
Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a knight's fee.
--R. Carew.

  1. Milton, for example, earned about a farthing a line from "Paradise Lost."
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