pounds

英 [paʊndz]

美 [paʊndz]

n.  英镑(英国货币单位，等于100便士); 镑(英国以外某些国家的货币单位); 英镑与外币的比值
v.  反复击打; 连续砰砰地猛击; 咚咚地走; (心脏)狂跳，怦怦地跳
pound的第三人称单数和复数

IELTS

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 英镑（英国货币单位，等于100便士）；镑（埃及等国的货币单位）
  Thepoundis the unit of money which is used in Britain. It is represented by the symbol £. One British pound is divided into a hundred pence. Some other countries, for example Egypt, also have a unit of money called apound.
  1. Beer cost three pounds a bottle...
     啤酒每瓶3英镑。
  2. A thousand pounds worth of jewellery and silver has been stolen.
     价值1,000英镑的珠宝和银饰被盗。
  3. ...multi-million pound profits.
     数百万英镑的利润
  4. ...a pound coin.
     1英镑硬币
• N-SING 英镑币制；镑币制
  The poundis used to refer to the British currency system, and sometimes to the currency systems of other countries which use pounds.
  1. The pound is expected to continue to increase against most other currencies.
     英镑对大多数其他货币的汇率有望继续升高。
• N-COUNT 磅（英美等一些讲英语的国家的重量单位，合0.454千克）
  Apoundis a unit of weight used mainly in Britain, America, and other countries where English is spoken. One pound is equal to 0.454 kilograms. Apound ofsomething is a quantity of it that weighs one pound.
  1. Her weight was under ninety pounds.
     她的体重不足90磅。
  2. ...a pound of cheese.
     一磅奶酪
• （流浪猫狗的）收留所，待领场
  Apoundis a place where dogs and cats found wandering in the street are taken and kept until they are claimed by their owners.
• （违章停放车辆的）扣留场
  Apoundis a place where cars that have been parked illegally are taken by the police and kept until they have been claimed by their owners.
• VERB 用力击打；连续砰砰地猛击
  If youpoundsomething orpound onit, you hit it with great force, usually loudly and repeatedly.
  1. He pounded the table with his fist...
     他用拳头猛击桌子。
  2. Somebody began pounding on the front door...
     有人开始不停地猛敲前门。
  3. She came at him, pounding her fists against his chest.
     她冲向他，用拳头使劲打他的胸膛。
  4. ...the pounding waves.
     猛烈拍打的波浪
• VERB 把…捣成粉状；捣碎；舂烂
  If youpoundsomething, you crush it into a paste or a powder or into very small pieces.
  1. She paused as she pounded the maize grains.
     她捣玉米粒时停了一下。
• VERB （常因恐惧而心脏）剧烈跳动，怦怦地跳
  If your heartis pounding, it is beating with an unusually strong and fast rhythm, usually because you are afraid.
  1. I'm sweating, my heart is pounding. I can't breathe.
     我浑身冒汗，心脏狂跳，呼吸困难。
• See also:pounding
• PHRASE （不顾别人痛苦而坚决要求的）应得的东西
  If you say that someone demands theirpound of flesh, you mean that they insist on getting something they are entitled to, even though it may cause distress to the person it is demanded from.
  1. Banks are quick to demand their pound of flesh when overdrafts run a little over the limit.
     透支稍微超出限额时，银行便会很快要求归还欠款。

双语例句

• He had siphoned thousands of pounds a week from the failing business
  他一周之内从这家濒临破产的企业里抽走了数千英镑的资金。
• A City businessman swindled investors out of millions of pounds
  一名来自伦敦商业区的商人骗取了投资者们数百万英镑。
• I entrusted him with a hundred pounds to take to the bank.
  我委托他把100英镑存入银行。
• Last year he netted a cool 3 million pounds by selling his holdings
  去年他通过出售自己持有的股份获得了整整300万英镑的净收入。
• Britons fork out more than a billion pounds a year on toys.
  英国人每年花在玩具上的钱超过10亿英镑。
• A thousand pounds worth of jewellery and silver has been stolen.
  价值1,000英镑的珠宝和银饰被盗。
• What did he do with the thirty pounds?
  他用这30英镑干了什么？
• To date we have spent eight thousand pounds between us.
  迄今我们总共已经花掉了8,000英镑。
• The Martins sold their house for about 1.4 million pounds
  马丁夫妇把他们的房子卖了140万英镑。
• It was amazing how my mother coped with bringing up three children on less than three pounds a week
  我妈妈用每周不到3英镑的钱抚养大了3个孩子，简直太不可思议了。