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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- pound of flesh
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分文不能短少的债务，勒逼偿还的全部债务；虽合法但极不合情理的要求[莎士比亚语]
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分文不能短少的债务，勒逼偿还的全部债务；虽合法但极不合情理的要求[莎士比亚语]
Collins English-English Dictionary
- pound of flesh
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something that is one's legal right but is an unreasonable demand (esp in the phrase to have one's pound of flesh)
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[Etymology]
from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1596), Act IV, scene i
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something that is one's legal right but is an unreasonable demand (esp in the phrase to have one's pound of flesh)
Examples
- pound for pound/dollar for dollar
- 物有所值 → for
- lacking one ounce of being a pound
- 一英磅差一盎斯 → lack
- pound sense into him
- 向他灌输理智 → pound
- They are ten to a pound.
- 这个东西一磅有十个。
- If you don't pay me, I will pound you into the ground.
- 如果不付钱，我就把你打趴下。 → pound
- When my computer starts acting up, I usually give it a quick pound and it jumps back to life.
- 如果电脑死机了，我通常会猛敲它一下，然后它就恢复正常了。 → pound
- The £10 (ten pound) note is the second lowest denomination in value.
- 十英镑纸币是面额倒数第二小的货币。 → pound
- There are over 84 million pound coins in circulation in Britain.
- 有价值为8400多万英镑的硬币在英国流通。 → Britain
- The symbol for the pound, is a script capital letter L pierced horizontally with an end dash or an equal sign: £.
- 英镑的符号是一个手写体的大写字母L,然后有一个杠横穿过来，这样就成了符号：£。
- The pound has fallen against the dollar.
- 英镑对美元的比值有所下跌。 → against
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