halfpence中文什么意思

半便士之值

• get more kicks than halfpence:    得不偿失

例句与用法

1. Receive more kicks than halfpence
   没有受奖反而更加倒霉。
2. So i think university managing enterprise is not worth the candle get more kicks than halfpence
   从长远来看，大学应不应继续办高科技企业不言自明。
3. He admitted , also , how important it was even to pretend not to care about the halfpence and the small things of life . but among the common people there was no pretence . a penny more or less on the bacon was worse than a change in the gospel
   他现在终于承认仪态是多么重要的了，而且他承认，假装对于一两个铜板和其它生命中的琐事满不在乎的样子是多么重要的了，但是在平民之中是没有什么假装的，猪油的价钱多一枚或少一枚铜板，是比删改圣经更重要的。
4. Fontan had caused the seven thousand francs to vanish away . without doubt they were quite safe ; indeed , she would never have dared ask him questions about them , for she was wont to be blushingly diffident with that bird , as mme lerat called him . she trembled lest he should think her capable of quarreling with him about halfpence
   丰唐把那七千法郎藏起来了，藏到别人找不到的地方，而她又从来不敢问他，因为在这个被勒拉太太称为家伙的人面前，她是羞于启的，生怕他以为她看中他几个钱才缠住他不放。