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1. Twenty shillings were equal to one pound before 1971.
1971年前，二十先令等于一英镑。
2. Twenty shillings used to make one pound.
20先令在过去等于1镑。
3. A deposit of eight pounds clinched the bargain.
8英镑完全办妥了这笔交易。
4. Penny wise, pound foolish.
[谚]小事聪明，大事糊涂; 抓了芝麻，丢了西瓜。
5. Mischiefs come by the pound, and go away by the ounce.
[谚]灾来如山倒，灾去如抽丝。
6. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
[谚]节约便士，金镑自然会积累起来。
7. A week's work sweated 6 pounds off him.
一个星期的劳动使他减轻了六磅体重。
8. In1971 Britain changed over from pounds, shillings, and pence to the new decimal money system.
一九七一年英国把英镑、先令、便士改为新的十进位币制。
9. One lady brought in a biscuit on a wheelbarrow. It weight nearly500 pounds.
一位太太用一辆手推车送来一块饼干，这块饼干几乎有500磅重。
10. An ounce of practice is worth a pound of theory.
一分实践当得十分理论。
11. The hard week's work sweat five pounds off him.
一周的艰苦劳动使他汗流浃背，瘦了5磅。
12. We can only offer you a beggarly two hundred pounds to start with.
一开始我们只能给你区区二百英镑作为酬金。
13. An ounce is one sixteenth of a pound.
一盎斯是十六分之一磅。
14. There are sixteen ounces in one pound.
一磅有十六盎司。
15. A pound of tobacco only lasts him a fortnight.
一磅烟丝只够他吸两个礼拜。
16. Pound notes have been withdrawn from circulation.
一英镑面值的钞票已停止流通。
17. One pound troy contains12 OZ.
一金衡磅有十二盎司。
18. Thirty thousand pounds were given under the gage of the jewels.
三万镑贷款是以那些珠宝作为抵押的。
19. Last week I gained another five pounds.
上周我体重又增加了五磅。
20. Three pounds for two sandwiches? It's daylight robbery!
两个三明治要三镑? 简直是敲竹杠！
21. People were rationed to a pound of meat a week.
人们的定量供应被限制为一星期一磅肉。
22. A pound today buys much less than it did a year ago.
今天一英镑远远买不到一年前能买的那麽多东西。
23. The exchange rate today be250 Japanese yen to the pound.
今天的兑换率是1英镑换250日元。
24. Beginning in1970, she spent more time sweeping Harry off his feet than she did in her real estate career. He divorced his wife of33 years and married Leona in1972 after she promised to lose20 pounds.
从1970年开始，她用在博得哈里欢心上的工夫超过经营房地产。哈里与结缡33年的发妻离异，1972年当利昂娜应许减肥20磅后和她结婚。
25. He pulled in ten pounds a week.
他一星期赚10英磅。
26. He put away a pound of steak at one meal.
他一顿饭贪婪地吃了一磅牛排。
27. He bought a piece of meat scaling in four pounds.
他买了一块重4磅的肉。
28. They tried to rally the pound sterling but in vain.
他们企图恢复英镑币值，但劳而无功。
29. Their expenses reached a total of 1,000 pounds.
他们的花费总计一千英镑。
30. He got four pounds from the sale of his drawing.
他卖画得了四英镑。
31. He wasted away to a mere ninety pounds from cancer.
他因癌症而消瘦到只剩九十磅。
32. He be50 pound out of pocket by the transaction.
他在那次交易中赔了五十英镑。
33. He screwed out half a pound for the taxi fare.
他很舍不得地拿出半个英镑来付出租汽车费。
34. He changed his pounds for the equivalent amount in dollars.
他把英镑兑换成等值的美元。
35. He rushed me 10 pounds for those repairs.
他敲了我10镑的修理费。
36. He's a member of the other team and secretly let us know who his side were going to field against us at the next match, so we gave him ten pounds conscience money.
他是另一个队的队员，他暗中告诉我们下一场比赛中他的队谁将上场同我们对阵，因此我们给了他10英镑追偿金。
37. Must he always pound on the table to make his point?
他每次都必须使劲敲桌子才能证明他的论点正确吗？
38. He outweighed me by forty pounds.
他比我重四十磅。
39. He is two pounds underweight.
他比标准体重轻两磅。
40. He wheedled five pounds out of his father.
他用甜言蜜语从父亲那里讨来五镑。
41. His debts amount to 5,000 pounds.
他的债务共达五千镑。
42. His nominal wage is fifteen pounds a week, but he makes a few pounds more on the side.
他的名义工资是每周15英镑，但是他还有几英镑的额外收入。
43. His business was started from scratch with200 pounds he'd borrowed from a relative.
他的店是他从亲戚那里借的200镑白手起家干起来的。
44. His old aunt came down handsomely; she sent him a cheque for100 pounds.
他的老姑妈慷慨解囊，寄给他一张一百英镑的支票。
45. His fortune dwindled to a few hundred pounds.
他的财产减少到几百英镑了。
46. He weighed out a pound of tomatoes.
他秤了一磅番茄。
47. He has been jogging regularly to trim down the194 pounds on his six-foot-one-inch frame.
他经常慢慢跑以减轻6英尺1寸身躯上的194磅的体重。
48. He offered me fifty pounds for the painting; and the beauty of it was that he never recognized it as the same one that he had sold to me for half that amount a year of two previously.
他给我50镑要了那幅油画，而最令人发噱的是他一点也认不出那是他一两年前以一半的价钱卖给我的那一幅。
49. He would share his last pound with me.
他要是剩下最後一镑也会和我分著用。
50. He said that he had slimmed down to 105 pounds.
他说他已把体重减轻到105磅。
51. He told me that the palm of banana hefted 5 pounds.
他说那把香蕉称重为5磅。
52. He weighed in at several pounds below the limit.
他赛前量体重比规定限度少几磅。
53. He was making ninety pounds a week.
他那时一周挣九十英磅。
54. Diesel is the more economical in fuel on a pound per horse power basis.
以一磅对一马力的比率而言，柴油式在燃料上是比较经济的。
55. Lenny go to a fat farm to lose 50 pounds.
伦妮为了减掉50磅的重量，到了健身中心。
56. Have you redeemed your car from the pound?
你有没有取回被扣的汽车?
57. If you have two pounds to spare, lay it on Brown Willie for the nest race.
你要是匀得了两英镑，下次赛马时城押在棕色威利那匹马上。
58. How many pounds did you put on over Christmas?
你过完圣诞节後体重增加了多少磅？
59. A coin formerly used in Great Britain, worth 1/12 of a shilling or 1/240 of a pound.
便士一种面值同一先令的1／12或一磅的1／240的英国旧硬币
60. Could you oblige me with 10 pounds?
借我10英镑行吗?
61. The farmers pound rice in a mortar.
农民们在臼中舂米。
62. As a rule of thumb, you should cook a chicken for 20 minutes for each pound that it weighs.
凭经验估计，每磅鸡肉应烹调20分钟。
63. The steel refining equipment alone may cost twenty millions pound.
单单钢的精炼设备就可能值两千万英镑。
64. A unit of weight formerly used in Spanish-speaking countries, equal to about 11.3 kilograms (25 pounds).
厄罗伯曾用于西班牙语国家的重量单位，约等于11.3公斤(25磅)
65. Pound for pound, you can get better value at this shop than at the other one.
同样是一英镑，在这个店就比在别的店更值钱。
66. Parliament appropriated two million pounds for flood control.
国会拨款两百万英镑作为防治水灾之用。
67. The Inland Revenue have sent me a tax bill for more than a hundred pounds, but they can't get blood out of a stone because I just haven't got the money.
国内税务署寄给我一张100多英镑的税单，不过他们不可能从石头里榨出油来，因为我并没有那么多钱。
68. Potatoes are 20 pence a pound.
土豆每磅20便士。
69. After a summer of work in the country, I was as hard as nails, hard as nails, without a pound of extra weight.
在乡长下劳动一个暑假之后，我的身体十分强壮而体重并没有增加。
70. The pound stayed firm against dollar in London but fell a little in New York.
在伦敦英镑对美元仍坚挺，但在纽约却跌了一点儿。
71. The pound silvered under the moonlight.
在目光下池塘变成了一片银白色。
72. Gained15 pounds; the market gained30 points.
增加了15镑; 股市增长了30个点
73. She thinks they can get married on his earnings of only fifty pounds a week but she's living in a fool's paradise.
她以为他每周只要挣50英镑，他们就可以结婚，但她是陶醉在虚无缥渺的乐境之中而已。
74. She's got a few thousand pounds put away for her retirement.
她已存了几千镑以备退休之用。
75. She converted her Renminbi into pound sterling.
她把她的人民币兑换成英镑。
76. Her last film grossed (ie earned) a million pounds.
她拍最後一部影片总共赚了一百万英镑。
77. He is able to lay aside fifty pounds each week.
她每周能积蓄五十镑。
78. She has a thousand pounds a month coming in from her investments.
她每月从投资中得到一千英镑收入。
79. If you borrow from the scoundrel, you may be sure he'll demand his pound of flesh.
如果你从那个坏蛋那里借债，可以肯定他会十分苛刻。
80. If you lend me ten pounds I'll square up with you when I get paid.
如果你借我10英镑，等发薪水时我会还你的。
