大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 centime


释义：

centime n. 生丁（法国货币单位）
[ 复数 centimes ]

例句：



But for a quarter century I have worked and rebuilt and beautified the church without asking a centime from the diocese.

但过去的四分之一个世纪里我工作着，重建并美化教堂而没有跟主教区要一文钱。



As I haven't a centime in my pocket I don't quite see the point of this, until he bursts out: "For Christ's sake, remember that we're broke."

我衣袋里的确连一个生丁也没有，所以我不大明白他这样说目的何在。后来他嚷开了，这时我才明白。



This is not because he is ruining a woman's reputation, but because the speaker might produce statistics, including times and centime - tres, that the other men would have difficulty in meeting.

这并非因为他败坏了一个女人的名誉，而是因为说话者可能提到一些统计数字，其中包括其他男人也许会遇到麻烦的次数和长度。