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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He profited by his own former experience, and laid by every penny he could till he had saved enough to purchase new lots.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He told me that it would hurt his self-respect that any other man should find the money for such an object, and that though he was a poor man himself he would devote his last penny to removing the obstacles which divided us.'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes on Sundays, if they were drunk enough, they used to throw her a penny or two, into the mud, and Marie would silently pick up the money.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The world went on, and no one was a penny the worse for all that wretchedness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But on they all went, one after another, and there was not a penny stirring.
-- 'Let them go, once and for ever, and I would never shed another tear if every penny had been a thousand pounds.'
-- What could the child do with the knowledge she had, but give him every penny that came into her hands, lest he should be tempted on to rob their benefactress?
-- Many's the hard day's walking in rain and mud, and with never a penny earned, we've had down in the West.'
-- But, before they had reached the corner of the lane, the man came running after them, and, pressing her hand, left something in it two old, battered, smoke-encrusted penny pieces.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The roof has been kept whole hitherto; but as the clergyman's stipend is only twenty pounds per annum, and a house with two rooms, threatening speedily to determine into one, no clergyman will undertake the duties of pastor: especially as it is currently reported that his flock would rather let him starve than increase the living by one penny from their own pockets.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "He earns so much that he never has a penny in his pockets.
-- On account of the gold pieces in his mouth, Pinocchio could not say a word, so he tried with head and hands and body to show, as best he could, that he was only a poor Marionette without a penny in his pocket.
-- Every penny was gone.
-- "Good man, will you be kind enough to give a penny to a poor boy who is yawning from hunger?"
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