sixpence
英 ['sɪksp(ə)ns]
美 ['sɪkspəns]
- n. （英）シックスペンス（コイン）
- n. （シックスペンス）人名；（英）Sicklespence
英語の語源
- sixpence (n.)
- late 14c., "sum of six pennies," from six + pence. As a specific British coin, from 1590s. Sixpenny (adj.) had a figurative sense "paltry, cheap, petty, worthless" by 1560s; sixpenny nails (early 15c.) cost so much per hundred.
例文
- 1. I gave him sixpence yesterday and advised him to save it.
- 昨日彼に6ペンスをあげて、それを貯金することを提案しました。
- 2.Wages were sixpence a week within living memory.
- 週給が6ペンスだった時代は記憶に新しい。
- 3.He took sixpence from the palm of her hand and went to the counter to pay.
- 彼は彼女の手の中から6ペンスを持ってカウンターに行ってお金を払った。dd>
- 4.Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye.
- 6ペンスの歌を歌い、ポケットいっぱいのライ麦.
- 5.The organ-player had been ordered to go away and given sixpence .
- 彼らはオルガン奏者に6ペンスを与え、立ち去るよう命じた。
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