核心畫面
You can picture a cent as the smallest everyday coin: one hundredth of a dollar, almost nothing on its own. That tininess — a unit so small it barely counts — is what the figurative 'two cents' leans on too.
可以把 cent 想成日常裡最小的那枚硬幣：一塊錢的一百分之一，單獨一枚幾乎不值什麼。核心畫面比較像『小到幾乎不算數…更多收起
可以把 cent 想成日常裡最小的那枚硬幣：一塊錢的一百分之一，單獨一枚幾乎不值什麼。核心畫面比較像『小到幾乎不算數的一小份錢』——後面那個 two cents 的講法，靠的也正是這份『微不足道』。原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
centnoun/sɛnt/
- 1
businessfinancemoneyA subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
- It's true. 1.7 cents to make 1 cent. That really makes the phrase “you have to spend money to make money” ring painfully true.
- 2
informalA small sum of money.
- He blew every last cent.
- Every cent aside from his own expenses for the barest kind of living went to his down-and-out buddies.
- 3
businessfinancemoneyA subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
- 4
businessfinancemoneyA coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
- 5
entertainmentlifestylemusicA hundredth of a semitone or half step.
- 6
A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。