farthing
英 ['fɑːðɪŋ]
美['fɑrðɪŋ]
- n. 一点儿，极少量；法新（1961年以前的英国铜币， 等于1／4便士）
- n. (Farthing)人名；(英)法辛
英英释义
- 1. a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny
实用场景例句
- Farthing Lane's just above the High Street and parallel with it.
- 法辛巷刚好在大街的北面，与大街平行。
柯林斯例句
- He doesn't care a farthing.
- 他毫不在乎.
《简明英汉词典》
- I am ready to pay to the uttermost farthing.
- 我情愿把这笔债全部还清,连零儿都不剩.
辞典例句
- It matters not a farthing whether she be old or young.
- 她年老还是年轻,那都无关紧要.
互联网
- The ancestor of the modern bicycle is called a penny farthing.
- 现代自行车的原型叫做‘前轮大后轮小的自行车’.
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- I don't care a brass farthing where you go.
- 你上哪儿去,我才不管呢!
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- He does not value that a brass farthing.
- 他把那东西评价得一钱不值.
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- I don't care a farthing.
- 我毫不介意;我毫不在.
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- This old clock is not worth a farthing.
- 这个旧钟一文钱不值.
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- Mr John was once in good circumstances, but now he is not worth a farthing.
- 约翰先生的经济情况一度很好, 但是现在却一贫如洗了.
互联网
- Take a farthing from a thousand pounds, it will be a thousand pound no longer.
- 千镑去一厘, 整整凑不齐.
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- I don't give a brass farthing for what you think, I'm going to do it anyway.
- 至于你怎么想我毫不在乎,不管怎样, 我都打算干.
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中文词源
farthing 法寻（英国旧硬币，值1/4旧便士）
farth, 四分之一，词源同fourth.
双语例句
- 1. Farthing Lane's just above the High Street and parallel with it.
- 法辛巷刚好在大街的北面，与大街平行。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. He doesn't care a farthing.
- 他毫不在乎.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. 'I'll have my dues, and not a farthing over.
- 我母亲说, “ 我只拿属于我的钱,一个子儿也不多拿.
来自英汉文学 - 金银岛
- 4. I am ready to pay to the uttermost farthing.
- 我情愿把这笔债全部还清,连零儿都不剩.
来自辞典例句
- 5. He never gave away a farthing in his life.
- 他一辈子也没白给人一个小铜子儿.
来自辞典例句
英文词源
- farthing
- farthing: [OE] Farthing has a long history as an English coin-name, going back to the 10th century, when it was used in translations of the Bible to render Latin quadrans, a quarter of a denarius. It was introduced into English currency (as a silver coin equal to a quarter of a penny) in the reign of Edward I; in Charles Il’s time copper was used for it, and from 1860 until its abolition in 1971 it was a bronze coin.
Appropriately, the term means literally ‘quarter’; it was originally a derivative of Old English fēortha ‘fourth’, formed with the suffix -ing denoting ‘fractional part’ (found also in riding [11], former name of the administrative areas of Yorkshire, which etymologically means ‘third part’).
=> four - farthing (n.)
- Old English feorðing (Old Northumbrian feorðung) "quarter of a penny; a fourth part," a diminutive derivative of feorða "fourth" (from feower "four;" see four) + -ing "fractional part." Cognate with Old Frisian fiardeng, Middle Low German verdink, Old Norse fjorðungr, Old Danish fjerdung "a fourth part of anything."
In late Old English also a division of land, probably originally a quarter of a hide. The modern English coin first was minted under Edward I and abolished 1961. The word was used in biblical translations for Latin quadrans "quarter of a denarius."I shall geat a fart of a dead man as soone As a farthyng of him. [Heywood, "Proverbs," 1562]
词态变化
复数: farthings;