To one in such a situation, five shillings may very well appear a large sum of money.
对这种处境中的人，五先令很可能是一大笔钱。
I'll make it five shillings, and that's three-and-sixpence more than the animal's worth.
我给你五先令，这比这牲口的价值多出了三又六便士。
Mrs. Morrison gave me five shillings and Mrs. Medlock gave me some money from Mr. Craven.
莫里森太太给了我五先令，梅德洛克太太从克雷文先生那儿给了我一些钱。
There was to be a first prize of five shillings, and a second prize of a half crown, for the best collection of wild flowers, with their names upon them.
第一名是五先令，第二名是半顶王冠，奖励他们收集了最好的野花，上面还写着他们的名字。
Give me five shillings please.
请给我五先令。
He bought it for five shillings.
他花了五先令买它。
I will venture five shillings on it.
我愿为它赌五先令。
This book is five shillings sixpence.
这本书定价五先令六便士。
I have five shillings and a few pence.
我有五先令和几个便士。
五先令，先生。
He gave his wife thirty-five shillings a week.
每周他给妻子三十五先令。
They paid me five shillings down, and I spent them.
他们预付给我五个先令，我都花了。
Uncle, he lent me my first five shillings, which I lost.
叔叔，他借给我5先令，我输掉了。
She would have five shillings clear after paying tram fare.
付了电车费后，她还会剩下整整五先令。
When he received his money he found that five shillings had been knocked off for expenses incurred.
当他收到钱时，他发现已扣去了五先令的费用。
At the age of twelve, for a bet of five shillings, he walked across the River Severn on extremely thin ice, for which he was promptly beaten by his father.
在十二岁时，他与别人打了个五先令的赌，在极簿的冰层上走过塞汶河。为此他立即被父亲打了一顿。
In 1908, when Lloyd George bullied through a payment of five shillings a week for poor men who had reached 70, Britons, especially poor ones, were lucky to survive much past 50.
从1908年开始，劳合·乔治每周支付给七十岁以上的穷人五个先令，但当时英国人，特别是贫穷的英国人幸运的话可以活到五十岁。
I gave the cabman five shillings, who only grumbled, saying it was dirt cheap at half-a-sovereign, and was impertinent enough to advise me the next time I went to a ball to take a 'bus.
我给了出租马车车夫五先令，他只顾发牢骚，说给半镑还嫌少呢，他竟然无礼得建议我下次参加舞会时坐公共马车。
It was the same with her "hand cart. the five pounds would never have run to a good one and she had found a rag-and-bone man willing to sell her the ruins of an old pram for five shillings."
她的“手推车”也是如此。那五英镑怎么也不够花在买一辆新车上。她找到了一个旧货商人，他愿意以五先令的价格卖给她一辆破旧的手推车。
Bust 'em, and you'll bust five-and-thirty shillings.
一绷破就绷掉了三十五个先令。
Bust 'em, and you'll bust five-and-thirty shillings.
一绷破就绷掉了三十五个先令。
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