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Ten pounds, or the ten-pound note itself, in casual British speech. "Can you lend me a tenner?" is exactly how a British friend asks for £10.
Ten pounds十英鎊 or the ten-pound note itself或那張十鎊紙鈔本身 in casual British speech是英式口語的說法 "Can you lend me a tenner?"「Can you lend me a tenner?(可以借我十鎊嗎)」 is exactly how a British friend asks for £10就是英國朋友跟你借十英鎊的說法
You can hear it as the money — "it cost me a tenner" — or as the physical piece of paper — "he pulled a tenner out of his wallet." It is informal and spoken: friends, shops, pubs, market stalls. You would not write it in a business email.
You can hear it as the money你會聽到它指的是「錢」 "it cost me a tenner"像「it cost me a tenner(這花了我十鎊)」 or as the physical piece of paper也會指那張實體紙鈔 "he pulled a tenner out of his wallet."像「he pulled a tenner out of his wallet(他從錢包裡拿出一張十鎊)」 It is informal and spoken這個字很口語 friends, shops, pubs, market stalls用在朋友、店家、酒吧、市集攤位之間 You would not write it in a business email你不會在商業郵件裡這樣寫
It belongs to a small family of money words British people use every day: a fiver is £5, a tenner £10, a score sometimes £20, a grand £1,000.
It belongs to a small family of money words British people use every day這個字屬於英國人日常用的一小群金錢用字 a fiver is £5, a tenner £10, a score sometimes £20, a grand £1,000像fiver是5鎊、tenner是10鎊、score有時候是20鎊、grand是1000鎊
Two things to know for the real world. It is British, and mostly means pounds — an American would say "ten bucks," and although "tenner" is understood in Australia and Ireland for their own ten-dollar or ten-euro notes, an American speaker is much less likely to use it.
Two things to know for the real world在現實生活裡有兩件事要知道 It is British, and mostly means pounds這個字是英式用法,指的主要是英鎊 an American would say "ten bucks,"美國人會說「ten bucks」 and although "tenner" is understood in Australia and Ireland for their own ten-dollar or ten-euro notes雖然在澳洲和愛爾蘭,「tenner」也能理解成他們自己的十元或十歐元紙鈔 an American speaker is much less likely to use it但美國人很少會這樣用
Also, the sums have shifted with time: older speakers grew up when a tenner bought a proper night out, and you can still hear that in how they say it.
Also, the sums have shifted with time另外,金額的份量也隨著時間改變了 older speakers grew up when a tenner bought a proper night out年紀較大的人成長時,十鎊還能好好玩一個晚上 and you can still hear that in how they say it這一點在他們說這個字的語氣裡還聽得出來
組成ten + -er. The -er here is the ending that turns something into "the thing that is this" — the same trick behind fiver for £5. English has been doing this for a long time; the -er goes back through Middle English and Old English -ere all the way to a Latin ending, -ārius, borrowed into Germanic long ago.
同家族的字
- fiversame ten+-er pattern applied to five: a £5 note
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。
Tennername
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A surname.
tennernoun/ˈtɛnə(ɹ)/
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informalA monetary note (bill) whose face value is ten basic units of currency. Originally, a ten-shilling (half pound) note.
- [...] or, if you're feeling brave, a tenner. Tell your child they have a chance to win the fiver if they can [...]
- The more a shop looks as though it trades in farthings and ha’pennies, the more tenners and twenties you can expect to hand over at the till.
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slangbroadcastingfilmmediaA kind of 10-kilowatt lamp.
- The basic 10K, known as a tenner or studio 10K, has a 20-inch fresnel. The big daddy of the group is the Big Eye tenner, which has a 24-inch lens.
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A tennis shoe.
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。