'Oh, take summut better; that only cost fourpence! '
‘哦,把 summut 拿去更好;只花了四便士!
小公主(原版)
" If you please, " said Sara, " have you lost fourpence—a silver fourpence" ?
“请问,”萨拉说,“你丢了四便士吗——一个四便士银币”?
国富论(五)
The different taxes upon small beer amount to one shilling and fourpence a-barrel.
对小啤酒征收的不同税金为一先令四便士一桶。
彼得兔和他的朋友们(上)
And oh, Simpkin, with the last penny of our fourpence buy me one penn'orth of cherry-coloured silk.
哦,辛普金,用我们四便士的最后一便士给我买一便士的樱桃色丝绸。
国富论(一)
Four minae were equal to thirteen pounds six shillings and eightpence; five minae to sixteen pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence.
四米纳等于十三英镑六先令八便士; 五米内兑十六镑十三先令四便士。
国富论(五)
It is in England taxed at three shillings and fourpence a bushel; about three times the original price of the commodity.
在英国,它按每蒲式耳三先令四便士征税; 商品原价的三倍左右。
彼得兔和他的朋友们(上)
Was I wise to entrust my last fourpence to Simpkin?
我把最后的四便士托付给辛普金是明智的吗?
米德尔马契(四)
" You shall have the Bill, Mr. Brooke, per electioneering contest, and a seat outside Parliament as delivered, five thousand pounds, seven shillings, and fourpence" .
“布鲁克先生,每一次竞选活动,你都会得到法案,以及议会外的一个席位,五千英镑,七先令,四便士。”
彼得兔和他的朋友们(上)
Take this groat (which is our last fourpence) and Simpkin, take a china pipkin; buy a penn'orth of bread, a penn'orth of milk and a penn'orth of sausages.
The groat is the traditional name of a long-defunct English silver coin worth four English pennies, and also a Scottish coin originally worth fourpence, with later issues being valued at eightpence and one shilling.