In this story,a trial takes place to decide if the moneylender Shylock can take a pound of flesh from a borrower who fails to repay his loan.
VOA: special.2011.06.06
Here's a copy of a letter to Pound by Yeats when they were both living in London.
这有一份叶芝写给庞德的信,他们当时都住在伦敦。
The stall sellers, "Two for a pound!" all that sort of Cockney, rhyming doodah.
小摊的商贩会喊,“一英镑两个!”全是那种伦敦佬押韵的吆喝。
So we say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
VOA: special.2009.08.30
It sells for about 20 cents a pound, so that represents about one-third of a trillion dollars.
它的价格为20美分每磅,这价值,大约为3000多亿美元。
"I'll bring ya a two-pound box of candy and maybe a bottle of perfume from the drugstore."
VOA: special.2011.02.27
Modernism in Eliot and Pound is, in some ways, founded on expatriation, on a kind of internationalism.
艾略特和庞德的现代主义在某种程度上是,建立在他们被驱逐国外后的一种国际主义。
We call them consols because, in the early 1700s, the British Government issued what they called consols or consolidated debt of the British Crown that paid a certain amount of pound sterling every six months forever.
我们称之为公债是因为早在十八世纪初,英国政府规定他们称之为英国皇家,统合公债或者联合公债,要求永久性地,每六个月支付一定数量的英镑
Let's look, for example, at a series of photos of Ezra Pound.
比如,我们可以看庞德的一系列照片。
I could never make a merit of being caviare to the crowd the way my quasi-friend Pound does. I want to reach out, if it were a thing I could do by taking thought.
我不能因为创作大众的阳春白雪而夸耀,就像我的半个朋友庞德一样,我希望伸展开来,如果这是我动脑经就能完成的事。
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