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。
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he came to an inn, he halted, ate up all his bread, and gave away his last penny for a glass of beer.
-- Meantime he began to be tired, and hungry too, for he had given away his last penny in his joy at getting the cow.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She would craunch the wing of a lark, bones and all, between her teeth, although it were nine times as large as that of a full-grown turkey; and put a bit of bread into her mouth as big as two twelve- penny loaves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You were coming out of the Italian Opera, ma'am, in white satin and jewels, a blaze of splendour, when I hadn't a penny to buy a link to light you.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle was indignant at the very thought, and declared he wouldn't give a penny for a translation.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lads spend every penny on themselves, clothes, smoking, drink-ing in the Miners' Welfare, jaunting off to Sheffield two or three times a week.
-- A penny more or less on the bacon was worse than a change in the Gospel.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At eighteen he would have dragged on from hand to mouth, from hour to hour, from penny to penny, until eighty.
-- Little Dorrit's lover very soon laid down his penny on the tollplate of the Iron Bridge, and came upon it looking about him for the well-known and well-beloved figure.
-- 'So if the whole thing had broken down, sir,' concluded Pancks, 'at the very last, say the day before the other day when I showed you our papers in the Prison yard, or say that very day, nobody but ourselves would have been cruelly disappointed, or a penny the worse.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One July day she came in with her hands full, and went about the house leaving letters and parcels like the penny post.
-- If you do, not one penny of my money ever goes to you.
-- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVENFortune suddenly smiled upon Jo, and dropped a good luck penny in her path.
-- Anything you say,' replies the shortsighted parent, preparing herself to sing, 'The Three Little Kittens' half a dozen times over, or to take her family to 'Buy a penny bun,' regardless of wind or limb.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of.
-- Fill to this mark, and your charge is but a penny; to this a penny more; and so on to the full glass the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulp down for a shilling.
-- One old Sag-Harbor whaleman's chief reason for questioning the Hebrew story was this: He had one of those quaint old-fashioned Bibles, embellished with curious, unscientific plates; one of which represented Jonah's whale with two spouts in his head a peculiarity only true with respect to a species of the Leviathan (the Right Whale, and the varieties of that order), concerning which the fishermen have this saying, "A penny roll would choke him"; his swallow is so very small.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here's a penny for you.
-- He had a penny too--a gift of Sowerberry's after some funeral in which he had acquitted himself more than ordinarily well--in his pocket.
-- He felt cold and stiff, when he got up next morning, and so hungry that he was obliged to exchange the penny for a small loaf, in the very first village through which he passed.
-- 'It was Bartlemy time when I was shopped; and there warn't a penny trumpet in the fair, as I couldn't hear the squeaking on.
-- 'I suppose, a married man,' replied Mr. Bumble, shading his eyes with his hand, and surveying the stranger, from head to foot, in evident perplexity, 'is not more averse to turning an honest penny when he can, than a single one.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Everything the good man said was full of affection, and I could hardly refrain from tears while he spoke; in short, I took one hundred of the moidores, and called for a pen and ink to give him a receipt for them: then I returned him the rest, and told him if ever I had possession of the plantation I would return the other to him also (as, indeed, I afterwards did); and that as to the bill of sale of his part in his son's ship, I would not take it by any means; but that if I wanted the money, I found he was honest enough to pay me; and if I did not, but came to receive what he gave me reason to expect, I would never have a penny more from him.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Geppetto did not have a penny in his pocket, so he made his son a little suit of flowered paper, a pair of shoes from the bark of a tree, and a tiny cap from a bit of dough.
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