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The shekel is the standard money of Israel — the unit you pay with there, as Taiwan uses the new Taiwan dollar. The modern currency is often called the new shekel. The name is much older than the modern state: it began as a word for weighing, then a set weight of metal used as money, and now it is the name on the coins and notes. Though actually, in or slightly old-fashioned English you may hear “shekels” for money in general (“I haven’t got the shekels”), a bit like saying cash; that is loose talk, not how you name the Israeli currency in a news story, and not a word for 新台幣. In anything about Israel, shekel means that country’s money.
謝克爾（以色列貨幣；正式全名常是新謝克爾）
組成From Hebrew shékel (שֶׁקֶל), from a verb meaning “to weigh,” and further back from Akkadian šiqlum. The money is named for a weight.
原始詞典資料3 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。
shekelnoun/ˈʃɛkəl/
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A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.
- So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
- "Beauty is naught to him, because there are lips more honey-sweet; and wealth is naught, because others can weigh him down with heavier shekels; and fame is naught, because there have been greater men than he."
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slangMoney.
- Her gownlet cost five hundred beans; / Her furs, four figures in a row; / Her hat removed from papa's jeans / A hundred shekels more or so.
- […] after the 1887-9 campaign was the great refuge of the destitute who, as they could not hope to rake in a breast-full of medals and decorations, expected, at any rate, to amass a good few shekels.
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historicalAn ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina.
- And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
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。