- 1六便士（英國舊幣，一枚小銀幣；不是現在的六個 1p）
A sixpence was a small British coin, silver-coloured, worth six old . Before 1971 Britain did not use pounds and pence the way it does now: twelve pence made a shilling, and twenty shillings made a pound, so a sixpence was half a shilling. People nicknamed it a tanner. You could hold it in your palm; it was everyday small change, not a fortune, but it turns up in songs, in Christmas puddings (a lucky sixpence stirred in for the ), and in the rhyme “Sing a song of sixpence”. The coin itself went out of daily use after decimal money arrived, though collectors still keep them, and some wedding shoes still hide a sixpence for luck. In English today the word is historical. Do not picture six of today’s 1p coins stacked together — old were a different system, and a sixpence was one coin.
組成From six + pence. Pence is the old plural of penny when you are talking about an amount.
原始詞典資料2 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。
sixpencenoun/ˈsɪks.pəns/
- 1
obsoleteThe value of six old pence; half of a shilling; or one-fortieth of a pound sterling.
- Finest apples, sixpence each.
- When the ferry-boat with her wild freight pushed into the stream, nobody cared sixpence for the wasted time but the captain of the craft.
- 2
historicalA former British or Irish coin worth six pennies, first minted in 1551.
- Have you got two sixpences for a shilling?
- "One penny, sir!" He was roused at once from his abstraction; for it was a question to himself whether he had even that in his pocket. Sixpence was, however, discovered; he paid the toll, and passed on.
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