In these distant seas, coal is worth three or four pounds sterling a ton.

必须在好几个港口设立储煤栈，但是要把煤炭运到这样遥远的海上，每吨煤价格就高达八十法郎。

A hundred pennies make one pound sterling.

一百便士等于一英镑。

Yes, ma'am. How much would you like to remit? You need to send pounds sterling, ma'am. Do you have them?

可以，太太。您想汇多少钱？您得汇英镑，太太。您带来了吗？

And finally, a quid, which is a slang term for one pound sterling.

最后是quid这个词，它是一英镑的俚语形式。

Government bonds sold off, and the pound sterling sank to a near 40-year low.

政府债券遭到抛售，英镑跌至近 40 年来的最低点。

We started with 'a penny'. A penny is an English coin. A hundred pennies makes one pound sterling.

我们从" 一便士" 开始。一便士是一种英国硬币。100便士是1英镑。

Does this show that international investors are losing confidence in the pound sterling and the UK economy as a whole?

这是否表明国际投资者正在对英镑和整个英国经济失去信心呢？

The currency in the UK is pound sterling.

英国的货币是英镑。

In Great Britain they use the pound. It is written GBP, but it's often called the pound sterling.

在英国，他们使用英镑。它写成 GBP，但它通常被称为英镑。

The English pound sterling, in the time of Edward I. contained a pound, Tower weight, of silver of a known fineness.

在爱德华一世时代， 英镑包含一磅塔重的已知纯度的银。

The quantity of silver contained in six shillings and eightpence of our present money, would thus be raised very nearly to the denomination of a pound sterling.

因此，我们目前货币的六先令和八便士中所含的白银数量将非常接近一英镑的面额。

I dozed off, myself, in considering the question whether I ought to restore a couple of pounds sterling to this creature before losing sight of him, and how it could best be done.

我自己也打起了瞌睡，在考虑这个问题时，我是否应该在失去他的视线之前恢复几英镑，以及如何最好地做到这一点。

The Scots money pound contained, from the time of Alexander the First to that of Robert Bruce, a pound of silver of the same weight and fineness with the English pound sterling.

从亚历山大一世到罗伯特布鲁斯时代，苏格兰货币英镑包含与英镑相同重量和成色的一磅白银。

In Massachusetts, the voter for member of the assembly under the charter of 1691 had to be a freeholder of an estate worth forty shillings a year at least or of other property to the value of forty pounds sterling.

在马萨诸塞州，根据 1691 年的宪章， 选举议员的选民必须是每年至少价值四十先令的不动产或其他价值不超过四十英镑的财产的自由持有人。