penny是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 便士， 美分，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And they would not take a penny for anything.
-- He--with his temperament as I know it--he has become careful and businesslike, a first-rate manager, he positively reckons every penny in his management of the land.
-- And he'll not wring the last penny out.
-- said Sergey Ivanovitch, with as much irritation as if he were defending the last penny of his fortune.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father, Andrew Jackson Tozer, sometimes known as Jackass Tozer; owner of the bank, of the creamery, and an elevator, therefore the chief person in town; pious at Wednesday evening prayer-meeting, fussing over every penny he gave to Leora or her mother.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You gave your last penny to the widow for the funeral.
-- 'Why, I know, you gave your last penny yourself, though you'd seen nothing of it, and if you'd seen everything, oh dear!And how often, how often I've brought her to tears!Only last week!Yes, I!Only a week before his death.
-- It was false econ-omy!I meant to keep them without a penny so that they should turn to me as their providence, and look at them!
-- Razumihin somehow discovered and proved that while Raskolnikov was at the university he had helped a poor consumptive fellow student and had spent his last penny on supporting him for six months, and when this student died, leaving a decrepit old father whom he had maintained almost from his thirteenth year, Raskolnikov had got the old man into a hospital and paid for his funeral when he died.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Myown exclusive breakfast of a penny loaf, and a pennyworth of milk,I provided myself, I kept another small loaf, and a modicum ofcheese, on a particular shelf of a particular cupboard, to make mysupper on when I came back at night.
-- When I dined 156regularly and handsomely, I had a saveloy and a penny loaf, or afourpenny plate of red beef from a cook's shop; or a plate of breadand cheese and a glass of beer, from a miserable old public-houseopposite our place of business, called the Lion, or the Lion andsomething else that I have forgotten.
-- Myopinion is, she won't stand anything, so here's a penny for you.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The press and the public were kind enough to welcome the fanciful plan, and willingly joined me in the anachronism of imagining a Wessex population living under Queen Victoria; a modern Wessex of railways, the penny post, mowing and reaping machines, union workhouses, lucifer matches, labourers who could read and write, and National school children.
-- "Mr. Oak," she said, with luminous distinctness and common sense, "you are better off than I. I have hardly a penny in the world I am staying with my aunt for my bare sustenance.
-- The door was hurriedly burst open again, and in came running Cainy Ball out of breath, his mouth red and open, like the bell of a penny trumpet, from which he coughed with noisy vigour and great distension of face.
-- Troy stood at the entrance to the booth, where a gipsy-woman was frying pancakes over a little fire of sticks and selling them at a penny a-piece, and looked over the heads of the people within.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We show no more mercy to the affection that reveals its utmost extent than we do to another kind of prodigal who has not a penny left.
-- As a matter of fact, I go to see the Vicomtesse de Beauseant; she is using her influence for me; I am obliged to go into society, and I have not a penny to lay out on clean gloves.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When the dish was empty and Gerald only midway in his remarks on the thievishness of Yankees who wanted tofree darkies and yet offered no penny to pay for their freedom, Ellen rose.
-- "Oh, I knew Yankees were vile but I didn't know " "Why quibble about the Yankees earning an honest penny selling out the Union?
-- Correspondence withCharleston friends elicited the further information that his father, a charming old gentleman with an iron will and aramrod for a backbone, had cast him out without a penny when he was twenty and even stricken his name from thefamily Bible.
-- She only saw that the bonnet was the most becoming one she ever had, that it had not cost her a penny and thatRhett must be in love with her, whether he admitted it or not.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Then," said I, "after all, stopping short here, never taking another penny from him, think what I owe him already!Then again: I am heavily in debt,--very heavily for me, who have now no expectations,--and I have been bred to no calling, and I am fit for nothing."
-- A deserting soldier in a Traveller's Rest, what lay hid up to the chin under a lot of taturs, learnt me to read; and a travelling Giant what signed his name at a penny a time learnt me to write.
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