The ancestor of the modern bicycle was called a penny-farthing.
现代自行车的原型称作penny-farthing（一种前轮大后轮小的自行车）。
The pickpockets had stripped him of his last farthing.
扒手把他最后一分钱都偷走了。
Nobody had bought anything of her the whole livelong day; no one had given her a single farthing.
整整一天谁也没有向她买过一件东西；没有人给她一个铜板。
我毫不在乎。
This old clock is not worth a farthing.
这个旧钟一文钱不值。
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing?
两个麻雀，不是卖一分银子吗。
He never gave away a farthing in his life.
他一辈子也没白给人一个小铜子儿。
The debt shall be paid to the uttermost farthing.
欠债要还得一个子儿也不剩。
Farthing Lane's just above the High Street and parallel with it.
法辛巷刚好在大街的北面，与大街平行。
She would pay to the uttermost farthing; she would tell, there and then.
她应该把最后一文钱的帐还清，就在这里和这时候把一切都说出来。
No one had bought anything from her all day, and no one had given her a farthing.
这一整天谁也没有向她买过一根，谁也没有给她一个铜板。
Do not buy what you want, but what you need; what you do not need is dear at a farthing.
不要买你想要的，要买你需要的；你不需要的东西哪怕一分钱也是贵的。
Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence till thou repay the last farthing.
26我实在告诉你：非到你还了最后的一文，决不能从那里出来。
Do not buy what you want, but what you need; what you do not need is a dear at a farthing.
不要买你想要的东西，要买你需要的东西，你不需要的东西是没有用的。
Answered Heathcliff; "but his life is not worth a farthing, and I won't spend a farthing on him."
希刺克厉夫回答，‘可是他的生命一文不值，我也不要在他身上再花一个铜子儿啦！’
"No," said her father, "Wickham's a fool, if he takes her with a farthing less than ten thousand pounds."
父亲说：“韦翰要是拿不到一万镑就答应娶丽迪雅，那他才是个大傻瓜呢。”
"No," said her father, "Wickham's a fool, if he takes her with a farthing less than ten thousand pounds."
我的意思是说，一个头脑最清楚的人是不会跟丽迪雅结婚的，因为她没有哪一点地方可以叫人家看中。
'She would begrudge me every farthing,' he thought, with a glance at his wife. 'The lottery ticket is hers, not mine!
“她不会给我一分钱的”，他边这样想边瞅了一眼妻子“彩票是他的，不是我的！”
GREater than all the troubles of the crowd was a little boy's trouble — he had not a farthing to buy a painted stick.
比一切群众的烦恼更深的，是一个小男孩的烦恼恼——他连买那根带颜色的小棍的一文钱都没有。
Brighter than all the gladness of the crowd was the bright smile of a girl who bought for a farthing a whistle of palm leaf.
比人群中一切喜悦还要明丽的，是一个小姑娘灿烂的微笑，她花一文钱就买到一个棕桐叶哨子。
"Ah, " said the father, sorrowfully, "I can give you no more, and in these hard times I cannot earn a farthing more than will suffice for our daily bread.
父亲不无忧伤地对他说：“我再也无法供你读书了，现在情况很糟，我只能挣口饭吃。”
His cunning began here; he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to everybody, even to the beggar to whom he refused half a farthing.
他为了防备他人而脸上经常带笑，几乎对所有的人，即使对一个向他讨一文钱而不得的乞丐，也都客客气气。
She had drawn up her little feet, but she was still colder, and she did not dare to go home, for she had sold no matches, and did not bring a farthing of money.
她把她的一双小脚也缩了进去，不过她感到更冷了。她不敢回家去，因为她没有卖掉一根火柴，没有赚到一个铜板。
With 13,600 Km already covered on his 19th century "penny farthing" bicycle, a 39-year-old Briton has embarked on one of the toughest 2 legs of his world 3 trek-china.
一名现年39岁的的英国人已经用他那19世纪的古董自行车走过了13600公里的距离，现在，他行程中最艰难的一段——中国之旅已经开始了。
With encouragement from his English teacher, Mr Farthing, and his fellow students, Billy eventually discovers a positive purpose to his unfortunate existence, until tragedy strikes.
在英语老师法辛先生和同学们的鼓励下，比利终于从他的不幸生活中发现了积极意义，直到悲剧发生。
With encouragement from his English teacher, Mr Farthing, and his fellow students, Billy eventually discovers a positive purpose to his unfortunate existence, until tragedy strikes.
在英语老师法辛先生和同学们的鼓励下，比利终于从他的不幸生活中发现了积极意义，直到悲剧发生。
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