For instance, Venetians used coins such as silver grossos and gold ducats (DUK-ets).
例如,威尼斯人使用银币和金币 (DUK-ets)。
格林童话(下)
He wanted to run out, but she held him by the arm, and gave him a handful of ducats.
他想跑出去, 但她拉着他的胳膊, 递给他一把金币。
少年维特之烦恼
The crown prince has sent me a present of five and twenty ducats; and, indeed, such goodness has affected me to tears.
太子送了我五二十金币的礼物;而且,事实上,这样的善良让我感动得流泪。
云游手册
After being cared for by the people of Dubrovnik, the grateful king gifted the city 100,000 ducats to build a church, and the greatest cathedral in the Adriatic was born.
She again gave him a handful of ducats, but he would not keep them, and gave them to the gardener for playthings for his children.
她又给了他一把金币,但他不肯留着, 送给园丁当他孩子们的玩物。
格林童话(下)
In his flight he had forgotten the most valuable things he had, the blue light and the gold, and had only one ducat in his pocket.
在逃亡中,他忘记了他拥有的最值钱的东西,蓝光和黄金, 口袋里只有一个金币。
国富论(三)
The receipts which are given for deposits of gold ducats fall to it yet more frequently, because a higher warehouse rent, or one half per cent.
金达克特存款的收据更频繁地落入它手中, 因为仓库租金更高, 即百分之一。
欧也妮·葛朗台
Item (that which her father valued most of all, the gold of these coins being twenty-three carats and a fraction), a hundred Dutch ducats, made in the year 1756, and worth thirteen francs apiece.
The ducat/ˈdʌkət/ was a gold or silver coin used as a trade coin in Europe from the later medieval centuries until as late as the 20th century. Many types of ducats had various metallic content and purchasing power throughout the period. The gold ducat of Venice gained wide international acceptance, like the medieval Byzantine hyperpyron and the Florentine florin, or the modern British pound sterling and the United States dollar.
近义、反义、联想词
近义词
n.
coin
联想词
coinage造币;coin硬币;pence便士;
英英词典
ducat n.
formerly a gold coin of various European countries