喜樂美語

From the word’s history

Via Dutch daler from German Taler, short for Joachimsthaler, after the town where the coins were first minted.

源自德文 Taler，取自最早鑄這種錢幣的小鎮 Joachimstal。

Wiktionary

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「一單位的錢」就是最基本的畫面。

One branch

貨幣單位

登入就可以看這一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

US dollar (currency) · noun

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

美元／元

dollars

意思相近

buck

原始詞典資料11 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。