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单词 pennyworth
释义
pennyworth
noun[S]
uk
/ˈpen.i.wəθ//ˈpen.əθ/us
/ˈpen.i.wɚθ/
old-fashioned
(UKpenn'orth)
as much of something as could beboughtfor apenny
价值一便士的东西
asmallamountof something:
少量，些许
It won't makeapennyworthofdifferenceto me.这对我来说没有丝毫区别。
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(Definition ofpennyworthfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpennyworth

pennyworth
They have bought their food in half-pennyworths and pennyworths.
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Figuratively speaking, we only grow wheat in halfpennyworths and pennyworths in this country, and an industry cannot be made to pay on that basis to-day.
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There is no doubt that women are being treated as pennyworths in the country.
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When you get down to the very poor they have to balance their weekly budget by pennyworths, and they have to buy tea by pennyworths or twopennyworths.
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Everypennyworthof capacity which is not used is an on-cost on the production of the capacity which is being used.
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My ration was 10-pennyworthof scrag end of neck of mutton.
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I am therefore encouraged to put in mypennyworth.
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Today, owing to rationing, all that is available is two-thirds of onepennyworthof meat for each person served with a meal.
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We never bought apennyworthand that is all there is to the whole matter.
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They could not attract apennyworthof income without using the property of creative artists and other copyright owners.
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Would it not be much more advisable to give an additionalpennyworthof rationed food to the miner's household?
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He is ruining the ship for the sake of apennyworthof tar.
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In many cases they are not asking for apennyworthof compensation.
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In some instances not apennyworthof work was being done to the house.
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He receives not apennyworthof compensation at all.
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