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美元不同面值俗称的英文表达

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美元(U.S. dollar)最常见的俗称(colloquialism)是buck【可能与早期鹿皮(buckskin)的贸易有关】,但严格地讲,这个词只对应dollar,可以用于其它国家的同名货币。如superb hotel for a few bucks。同义词还有bone和bean。如You owe me 5 bones;It cost me forty beans

Greenback只限于指美元钞票(U.S. Federal Reserve Note)【与Federal Reserve Bank Note不同】。如Having to pay large amounts ofgreenbacks for dwelling refurbishments is frequently not necessarily a good choice as a consequence of shortage of obtainable financing.

钞票通常叫banknote、bill【还可以指100美元】、note、paper currency或paper money。
任何面额(denomination)的美钞都可以用其上总统的名或姓来称呼。美元新版钞票俗称包括bigface bill和Monopoly money。
如I got a pocket fulla big faces on me. at least bill gates set up the gates foundation with some of his monopoly money.
其它同义词包括green、smacker和dead presidents/deceased presidents。如:
Someone dressing well to impress others may refer to their behaviour as 'flashing their
U>'.
Can I please have 50 smackers so that I can go to the store and buy a bottle of whiskey?
Yo man these oakleys are gonna cost ya 56 dead presidents.

一美分(U.S. One Cent):penny。如Hey there's a penny on the ground!


两美分(U.S. Two Cents):


五美分(U.S. Five Cents):nickel。如nickelodeon指门票(admission)五美分的影院。如Don’t nickel and dime me.【别零碎地给我,一次性付完】


一角:(U.S. One Dime):short bit。如Buddy can you spare a dime?


二十五美分(U.S. Quarter Dollar):quarter、two bits、two bit【但two-bit指廉价、低俗。如I don’t want any two-bit actors in this play. 但two cents指意见。如I’d like to throw in my two cents.】。如:
Hey Princeton! Give me a quarter!
Shave and a haircut, two bits.


五十美分(U.S. Half-dollar):four bits。如When I was a lad, it was afour-bit (fifty cents) word.


一美元(U.S. one-dollar bill):George、single、buck、clam、simoleon。如:
Dude, lend me a George, I'm jonesin' for a Hershey bar.
Can I get a five and five singles?
It cost five clams for a sandwich at the restaurant.
The guy's got more simoleons than all of us put together.


两美元(U.S. two-dollar bill):deuce、Tom、Jefferson、T.J.。如: Adeuce for the hat-check girl.


五美元(U.S. five-dollar bill):five、Abe、Lincoln、fiver、fin(过时)、finif(过时)、finski(过时)、five-spot、faux Euro、nickel、fever。如:
Can I get a five and five singles?
Guy 2: how much? Guy 1: an Abe.
Could you lend me a few fivers?
I mowed the guy's lawn, and all he gave me was a fin.
That movie ticket only cost me a finif.
Can I get a five spot from you?
hey i got a fever man you right?

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