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
Please deliver the following groceries to 445 Attic Street: 1 pound of bacon, 2 dozen eggs, 4 quarts of milk.
请把以下的生活用品送到455,Attic,街:,一磅熏肉,2两打鸡蛋,4夸脱牛奶。
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
In English it begins with the late novels of Henry James around 1900, in poetry with Eliot and with Ezra Pound.
在英国现代主义萌芽于1900年左右,体现在亨利·詹姆斯,的后期小说,艾略特和艾兹拉·庞德的诗歌上。
"I'll bring ya a two-pound box of candy and maybe a bottle of perfume from the drugstore."
VOA: special.2011.02.27
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。
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。
In 1931 they dropped convertibility of the pound sterling still called pound sterling even though it's not silver it was gold.
在1931年,他们放弃了英镑的可兑换性,仍然叫做英镑的话,即便它不是银,而是金。
The period of Pound's influence coincides with Yeats's significantly titled book Responsibilities.
庞德影响他的这一时期,他写了名为责任的一书。
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。
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。
Pound, you'll see keeps turning up in all of these stories.
你们会发现庞德,在这些故事里经常出现。
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
Think of how far away this is from Ezra Pound in St. Elizabeth's Hospital.
想想从圣伊丽莎白医院里的庞德,过渡到她的距离有多远。
Pound was one of the contributors.
庞德是杂志的发起人之一。
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