picul

picul

1. In 1868, the market value of raw silk was 517 tael of silver per picul, by 1875, the price had fallen to 285 tael per picul.

1868年，生丝每担市值白银517两，到1875年，每担价格已下跌至285两。

2. One hundred jin equals one dan [picul]

一百市斤为一担。

3. Second,since the rise of the peasant movement the price of grain has dropped -- it was six yuan a picul last spring but only two yuan last winter -- and the problem of food has become less serious for the people.

二是农民运动起后，谷子价廉，去春每担六元的，去冬只二元，民食问题不如从前那样严重。

4. Just look at the way rice has gone up to twenty dollars a picul and the way prices in general are shooting up

你想，米价飞涨到二十多块钱一担，百物昂贵

5. They made the same demand once before when the price of rice went up to twenty dollars per picul and now they're bringing it up again."

前次米价涨到二十元一石时曾经要求过，这次又是。”

6. Last year they bought unhusked rice from the peasants in Wanan and Taiho Counties at fifty cents a picul and sold it in Kanchow for four yuan, making a sevenfold profit.

去年万安、泰和两县的农民五角钱一担谷卖给商人，而商人运到赣州卖四块钱一担，赚去了七倍。

7. In South China, nearly a thousand miles from the civil war areas, rice rose from eighteen million dollars to thirty-six million dollars a picul within a few days.

在离内战战场将近一千英里的华南地区，米价在几天内从每担一千八百万元涨到三千六百万元。

8. Not even a picul of stone in the house

家无担石

9. One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store.

德伐日先生把食品和带来的灯放到鞋匠长凳上（阁楼里除了一张草荐床之外别无他物），他跟罗瑞先生弄醒了囚徒，扶他站起身来。

10. picul (unit of weight)

担