pound

释义

v.

捣碎；反复击打；连续砰砰地猛击；咚咚地走

n.

英镑（英国货币单位，等于 100 便士）

网络

磅；庞德；英磅

词形变化

复数：pounds 过去分词：pounded 现在分词：pounding

常用短语 6 组

pound of flesh

合乎法律的无礼要求

in the pound

每镑

pound sterling

n. 英镑

by the pound

按每磅(计价)

pound on

重击；猛打

pound note

1英镑纸币

在例句中理解 37 句

1. Where viruses are concerned, what grandma used to tell you is extremely relevant: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

   对待计算机病毒，老奶奶过去经常对你说的一句话是非常贴切的：一分的预防胜似十分的治疗。

2. If he could somehow save enough for an icebox, a day's wage would not have bought a pound of meat to put in it.

   即使拼命攒足了钱能够去买一个冰箱，而他们每天挣得钱也买不起一磅肉放进去。

3. I walked out of the sunlight, opened a torn screen door and moved into the shadows, where an 87-pound figure was curled up in a wheelchair.

   我从太阳光下走进去，打开一扇破烂的屏门，走进了阴暗的棚子，棚子里蜷缩在轮椅上的是一个。

4. Immediately after they put a two-pound note into a machine, their insurance policy came out.

   他们把一张两镑的钞票放入机器里，紧接着他们的保险单出来了。

5. Saying that his ships were all lost at sea and he would have to give Shylock a pound of his flesh.

   信中说，他的船只在海上全部失踪了，他只好付给夏洛克一磅自己身上的肉。

6. How much tax the Duke pays overall and how much he pays on his last pound are not the same thing.

   公爵的纳税总额和他为最后1英镑缴纳的税款不是一回事。

7. All I ever remember your saying about her was that she had the tightest clutch on a pound.

   我曾记得你说过，她是一个嗜钱如命的家伙。

8. A few years ago, a 75-pound stingray leapt out of the Atlantic Ocean at Vaca Key and slammed into a woman, killing her in the process.

   前几年，在大西洋威卡礁，有一条75磅重的魟鱼越到船上，意外地致使一个妇女死亡。

9. "You're going to want Rat Chow, " he said, handing him a ten-pound sack, "and a bag or two of these wood shavings. "

   “你就要得到鼠食品了，”他说着递给他一个能装十磅重东西的袋子，“在这些木质存储物中拿出一两袋。”

10. The main thing is I just eat less butter now, and take a 20 minute walk every afternoon, and I still keep losing nearly a pound a week.

    现在我要做的就是摄入更少量的黄油，每天下午散步20分钟，即使是这样，每周我仍然能够减掉一镑多。

11. you've probably gained at least five to 10 pounds, and from here on out the average woman gains about a pound a week.

    你可能已经增重了5----10磅，从这周开始平均起来，怀孕的女人大约会每周增重一磅。

12. He said Sudan would have to lower imports to reduce pressure on the Sudanese pound, which has tumbled against the dollar.

    他表示，苏丹必须降低进口以减轻苏丹镑的压力，苏丹镑兑换美元的汇率已经下跌。

13. I'll always remember my mother saying that she did not see why I had to do that, because they would never take a skinny, 125 pound kid.

    我一直记得我的妈妈跟我说过的话，她说她不明白为什么我能入伍，因为她认为军队不会招收像我这样皮包骨的人，总共才125磅重。

14. All this suggests, indeed, that far from learning to live with the strong pound, the economy is under growing strain as a result of it.

    所有这些证据说明，确实，不仅远没有学会了与坚挺的英镑相处，而且由于英镑的升值，经济面临的压力在不断增加。

15. The dollar, which like the yen has recently been gaining against rival currencies, climbed against the euro and the British pound.

    与日圆一样，美元兑其他主要货币的汇率近来也不断攀升，兑欧元和英镑都有上扬。

16. It wouldn't be a quick fix, but a pill that increased metabolism by 500 calories a day would speed weight loss by a pound a week.

    这种药不是速效减肥药，不过一片药可以让机体每天多消耗500卡路里，每周可多减肥1磅。

17. Because this gift came before their pound search sort of was completed, they made a gift to some of the places they were looking.

    由于这件礼物在他们的海选结束之前到来，所以他们向那些原本准备光顾的流浪犬收容所送了一些礼物。

18. Old Pew, as had lost his sight, and might have thought shame, spends twelve hundred pound in a year, like a lord in Parliament.

    老皮乌，瞎了眼之后，说起来可能惭愧，曾在一年里就花掉了一千二百镑，像个国会里的王公。

19. Working in such a laundry was known as the "8-pound livelihood" because a person had to lift an iron weighing almost 4 kilograms all day.

    在这种洗衣店工作被成为“8磅生计”，因为工人必须整天举着近4千克重的熨斗。

20. But for a second straight night, a West Coast offense, not known as a running team, lost by trying to pound the ball on its last two plays.

    但连续第二晚，西海岸式的进攻，作为跑动队来说从未听说过因在最后两局中尝试猛击球而输掉比赛。

21. The boy's clothes his host had dressed him in made him feel like ten pounds of sausage in a five-pound skin.

    穿着男孩的衣服让他感觉自己像一个硬塞进5磅香肠皮中的10磅香肠。

22. I've been running a mile every afternoon for the past month, but I still have't been able to lose more than a pound or two.

    过去一个月我一直坚持每天下午跑一英里，但是体重也就减轻不过一两磅。

23. By "random, " I mean really random: Pound the keyboard for a while, like a monkey trying to write Shakespeare.

    随机的意思就是说，随意地敲击键盘一会，就像猴子试着写莎士比亚一样。

24. From this year they are allowed to charge students up to £ 3, 000 a year, and from 2009 the cap may be removed altogether.

    今年开始大学被允许每年对每个学生收取最高达3000镑的学费，到2009年该限制将完全取消。

25. That shocked consumers, for whom a pound of coffee had been as standard a purchase unit as a dozen eggs or a six-pack of beer, he said.

    这使消费者震惊，对他们来说一磅咖啡就是一个购买单位，如同一打鸡蛋，一扎六瓶的啤酒，他说。

26. I still fall into that trap every once in a while and I have to force myself to sit down and pound out a few pages of a short story.

    我偶尔还是会掉入这样的陷阱，而这时我就会强迫自己坐下来，敲出一篇几页纸的短篇故事。

27. She put into his hand two fifty-pound notes, and then, as if she was ashamed of herself, bundled him out of doors.

    她把两张五十镑的钞票塞进他手里，接着，好象她为自己感到难为情，把他推出了门。

28. Then it was that Lottie knew why Bess had made no mention of her finery, or the shining room, or the twelve pound turkey.

    那时珞蒂才明白何以碧丝都不提她美的服饰、漂亮的房间或者那只十二磅重的火鸡。

29. If your goal is to lose 1 or 2 pounds a week, you'll be satisfied to see those full-pound drops when you step on the scale.

    如果你的目标是一周减掉1~2磅，那么当你按计划一步步做下来时看到真的减掉了这么多后，你会有种满足感。

30. He said he had some Russian clients coming over and he wanted them to sign a multimillion-pound deal.

    他说有几名俄罗斯客户要过来，他想和他们签署一项数百万英镑的交易。

31. They spent over a thousand pounds.

    他们花了一千多英镑。

32. a multi-million pound business

    一笔几百万英镑的生意

33. a five pound note

    五英镑的纸币

34. She pounded the corn kernels.

    她捣碎了玉米粒。

35. Moira weighs about 130 pounds .

    莫伊拉的体重约为130磅。

36. The grapes cost $2 a pound .

    葡萄的价格是2美元一磅。

37. He began pounding the keyboard of his computer.

    他开始猛敲电脑键盘。