- 1
A guinea was a British gold coin. People used it for a long time, but you cannot spend one in a shop today. It was worth one pound and one shilling — a little more than one pound, or £1.05 if you write it the modern way.
A guinea幾尼 was曾經是 a British gold coin一種英國金幣。People人們 used it用了它 for a long time很長一段時間，but但 today今天 in a shop在店裡 you你 cannot沒辦法 spend one花掉一個。It它 was worth值 one pound and one shilling一鎊又一先令——than比一鎊 one pound多一點，or也就是 if you write it the modern way用現代寫法寫 £1.051.05英鎊。
Though actually, the word is not dead. At horse , and when people buy and sell , the price is still often given in guineas, not in pounds. It makes the deal sound old and grand, like a club with its own way of talking.
Though actually不過事實上，the word這個字 is not dead並沒有死。At horse races在賽馬場上，and when people buy and sell racehorses還有人們買賣賽馬時，the price價錢 is still often given還是常常 in guineas用幾尼報，not in pounds而不是用鎊。It它 makes讓 the deal這筆交易 sound聽起來 old and grand又老派又氣派，like a club with its own way of talking就像一個有自己一套說話方式的俱樂部。
The name comes from Guinea in West Africa: the first coins were made from gold that came from that coast, mostly from the place we now call Ghana. So this is a money word named after a coast, not a country you visit with a guinea in your pocket, and not a small animal.
The name這個名字 comes from來自 Guinea幾內亞 in West Africa在西非：the first coins最早的錢幣 were made是用黃金做的 from gold，that came from那些黃金來自 that coast那片海岸，mostly from the place we now call Ghana主要來自我們現在叫迦納的地方。So所以 this這 is是 a money word一個貨幣詞 named after以...命名的 a coast一片海岸，not不是 a country一個國家 you visit with a guinea in your pocket你會揣著一枚幾尼去玩的，and也 not不是 a small animal一種小動物。
組成From the place-name Guinea in West Africa. The English name comes from Portuguese Guiné + -ia; where Guiné itself came from is not certain. The coins were made of gold from that region, mostly the Gold Coast (modern Ghana), and used in African trade.
同家族的字
- Guineathe West African place whose gold gave the coin its name
- guinea fowlthe bird was named from the same West African place
原始詞典資料6 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。
Guineaname/ˈɡɪni/
- 1
historicalThe coastal region of West Africa between Morocco and the Congo, particularly the north shore of the Gulf of Guinea.
- 2
A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Guinea.
- Among the frontrunners before the conclave began were Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state; Luis Antonio Tagle, a reformer from the Philippines; Péter Erdő, a traditionalist from Hungary; Robert Sarah, a cardinal from Guinea who criticised Francis’s papacy; and the moderate US cardinal Robert Prevost.
guineanoun/ˈɡɪni/
- 1
historicalA gold coin originally worth twenty shillings; later (from 1717 until the adoption of decimal currency) standardised at a value of twenty-one shillings.
- English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck—nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection...
- However, since there are 488 pages in all for a bargain price of a guinea one must not be too carping.
- 2
Synonym of guinea fowl.
- The guineas peeped complainingly, the goslings waddled into all the puddles and came back to chill my skin.
- 3
derogatoryslurslangA person of Italian descent.
- If I’m to tell the whole truth—and why not? I sure have the time!—I’ll have to start by saying I was born Richard Pinzetti, in New York’s Little Italy. My father was an Old World guinea.
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。