Guinea

(noun.) a republic in western Africa on the Atlantic; formerly a French colony; achieved independence from France in 1958.

(noun.) a former British gold coin worth 21 shillings.

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• The tax of a guinea a-head for every man-servant, which has lately been imposed in Great Britain, is of the same kind. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• For this express reason, I had borrowed the half-guinea, that I might not be without a fund for my travelling-expenses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Mr. Coavins gave a guinea, and the follerers made up a little purse. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In scattered islands and in Papua and New Guinea we find another series of black and brownish peoples of a more lowly type with frizzy hair. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A guinea a-piece, boys-be alive there--bustle about--there's good fellows. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Mr. Cruncher made the observation to his next neighbour, and added, I'd hold half a guinea that _he_ don't get no law-work to do. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• A shilling changes masters more frequently than a guinea, and a halfpenny more frequently than a shilling. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• There's many of 'em who can't spend a dollar to your guinea, my boy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Among other remote and isolated little patches of language are the Papuan speech of New Guinea and the native Australian. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what have I gained? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Well, do you remember coming down in a gig to Dr. Swishtail's to see me, before you went to India, and giving me half a guinea and a pat on the head? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I swore that time, sure as ever I earned a guinea, that guinea should go to you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I find it in Captain Seagrave's account of his Voyage to Guinea. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Mine is a guinea, he said. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• You want me to accept of half a guinea. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I'll beat 'em, if it cost me a thousand guineas. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• He laid two of Thomasin's guineas, and the reddleman his two pounds. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Shall I leave you twenty guineas? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The price of an ox, reckoned at ten guineas, is about three score times the price of a lamb, reckoned at 3s. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• One thing is cheerful in it--the guineas are not lost. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I wouldn't take ten thousand guineas for that bird. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Next day the mystery of the guineas was explained. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Like other guineas, they were worth no more than ?46:14:6. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• There are five-and-twenty guineas in this bag. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He struck his boot upon the ground, so that the guineas chinked within. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• If you do, and I were twenty years younger, I would give your father one thousand guineas for you. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• There might be medical doctors at the present hour, a picking up their guineas where a honest tradesman don't pick up his fardens--fardens! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Three, four, five, guineas, you would consider handsome, I dare say. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Two guineas a-piece, boys--don't let 'em gain on us--keep it up--keep it up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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