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n.元,美元

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dollar


/'dɒlə(r); `dɑlɚ/ n
1 [C] (symb 符号为$) unit of money in the US, Canada, Australia, etc 元(美国、加拿大、澳大利亚等国的货币单位)
*Oil from these fields is priced in dollars. 这些油田产的油以美元定价.
2 [C] banknote or coin worth one dollar 一元的纸币或硬币
*Have you got any dollars? 你带着钱呢吗? =>App
4 见附录4.
3 the dollar [sing] (finance 财) value of the US dollar on international money markets 国际金融市场的美元价格
*The dollar closed two cents down. 收市时一美元下降了二美分.
4 (idm 习语) bet one's bottom dollar => bet. (feel, look, etc) like a million dollars (infml 口) very fit, healthy, beautiful, etc 身体很好; 非常健康; 十分漂亮. a/the sixty-four thousand dollar `question important question that is very difficult to answer 很难回答的重大问题
*Will we all survive until the year 2000? That's the sixty-four thousand dollar question. 我们大家是否都能活到公元2000年? 这个问题很难回答.

dollar


n[C]
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Dutch;Origin: daler, from German joachimstaler, from Sankt Joachimsthal, name of a Bavarian town where the coins were first made]
the standard unit of money in the US, Canada, Australia, and some other countries, divided into 100 cents : symbol $
 It cost three dollars.
 a ten-dollar bill
the dollar
the value of US money in relation to the money of other countries
 The pound has risen against the dollar (=increased in value in relation to the dollar) .
you can bet your bottom dollaratbet1 (4), feel/look like a million dollarsatmillion
1. The dollar is American currency.
    美元是美国的货币。

2. Controlling this precision machine and its many weapons is like playing a million-dollar video game that has dozens of buttons.
    控制这架精密的机器和它所携带的众多武器,就像玩一个备有几十个按钮、价值百万的电子游戏。

3. One dollar and eighty- seven cents.
    一美元八十七美分.

4. It was a hideous act, but it helped the African to stay put on one plantation, since no calculating planter would care to part with a crippled slave for the current price of one dollar.
    这是一种惨不忍睹的暴行,但却使他在一家种植园呆了下来。因为没有一个精于算计的种植园主,会愿意为了一个美元而卖掉一个瘸腿的奴隶。

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