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The drachma was the money of Greece for a very long time, until Greece joined the euro in 2002. People paid in drachmas the way we pay in dollars or in 元: coins, notes, prices in shops. You will mostly meet the word in history, old travel stories, or talk about the years before the euro. Though actually, the same old name also meant a small weight of silver, which is how a unit of money often begins — a coin that weighed about that much. Ancient Greek cities struck silver drachmas; modern Greece used the name again in later centuries. Do not use it for money in Greece today. That is the euro. One drachma; two or more drachmas (you may also see the older plural drachmae in very formal writing).
德拉克馬(希臘改用歐元前的貨幣)
原始詞典資料4 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。
drachmanoun/ˈdɹæk.mə/
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The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro.
- 'Who is he, and where does he come from?' said I, 'and what does he charge?' 'Evenus of Paros, Socrates,' said he, 'and his fee is 500 drachmae.' I felt that Evenus was to be congratulated if he really was a master of this art and taught it at such a moderate fee.
- 2008, Philip Matyszak, Ancient Athens on Five Drachmas a Day (title of the book)
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A coin worth one drachma.
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An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams.
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A later Greek weight equal to a gram.
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。