1. Each demanded some payment that was overdue: twelve shillings for the furniture and oilcloth; one pound four and one penny for the General District and Special Rates; and one pound one and fivepence halfpenny for Poor Rate.
    三封信都是催债的，而且每项款都已经过了期。家具和油布十二先令；统税和特税一镑四先令一便士；济贫税一镑一先令五个半便士。

2. We did owe nearly a pound, but I´ve been paying it off a little at a time."
    我们确实欠过近一镑的钱，可我一直在一点一点地还。”

3. They offered to pay $10 a pound for the biggest biscuit baked by a listener.
    他们愿意以每磅10美元的价钱买下由听众烘制的最大的饼干。

4. Half a pound of coffee.
    半磅咖啡、

5. An ounce of prevention is a pound of cure.
    （谚）一分预防相当于十分治疗。

6. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
    一分预防胜似十分治疗。

7. Almost any day a young porpoise may be seen trying to turn a 300-pound sea turtle over by sticking his snout under the edge of his shell and pushing up for dear life.
    几乎每天都可以看到一只小海豚把鼻子顶入一只300磅重的海龟的硬壳下面，拼命地把它翻过来。

8. A pound of sugar.
    一磅糖、

9. A quarter of a pound of tea.
    1/4 磅茶叶

10. And a pound of mince, too.
    再来一磅绞肉。