核心畫面

Think of the actual unit of money — one dollar, $1, the coin or note you spend — used in the US, Canada, Australia and other places. That physical unit is the base picture.

可以想成:一枚實實在在的錢的單位——一美元、$1,你花出去的那張鈔票或那個數字,用在美國、加拿大、澳洲等地。那個「一更多收起可以想成:一枚實實在在的錢的單位——一美元、$1,你花出去的那張鈔票或那個數字,用在美國、加拿大、澳洲等地。那個「一單位的錢」就是最基本的畫面。

One branch

貨幣單位

先是那一單位的錢本身,再由它延伸到「這種錢值多少」——同一個東西,一個看它是什麼,一個看它值多少。

US dollar (currency) · noun · A1

The money used in the US, Canada, Australia, and some other countries. One dollar is 100 cents, and its symbol is $.

美元/元

原始詞典資料11 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。

Dollarname

  • 1

    A small town in Clackmannanshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9698)

  • 2

    An unincorporated community in Coosa County, Alabama, United States.

  • 3

    A former community in Ontario, Canada, now part of the city of Markham.

  • 4

    A locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

  • 5

    A surname.

dollarnoun/ˈdɒl.ə/

  • 1

    Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.

    • But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
    • Yeah, but why? Lincoln doesn’t need the penny for notoriety. He’s everywhere. We put him on novelty bandages, cup-and-ball games, and creepy Chia Pets. And you know where else we put him? The five-dollar bill! You know, the thing that’s worth 500 times more than the penny!
  • 2

    Money generally.

    • Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent of the advertising dollar, magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent.
  • 3

    A ringgit, a unit of currency in Malaysia.

  • 4

    historicalA quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.

  • 5

    historicalImported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)

    • The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
    • For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others: dollar films and dollar tobacco.
  • 6

    A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。