The penny meters are slowly being replaced by electronic ones that take nickels, dimes, and quarters.
接受1美分硬币的收费表正逐渐被接受5美分、10美分和25美分的电子收费计所取代。
先把半个便士给我。
That year, Lincoln's likeness made its debut on the penny, thanks to approval from the U.S.
那一年，由于得到了美国的批准，林肯的肖像首次出现在便士上。
The penny: Any copper coin will work.
任何一种铜硬币都可以发挥作用。
Where you threw the penny and where it fell.
你把便士扔在那里，你把它放有那里。
In the penny jar example, you ask each participant for a number.
在零钱罐的例子里，你要求每个参与者给出一个数字。
The penny dropped one day when I heard my son sitting on the toilet.
有一天我听到我的儿子坐在马桶上说“piping！
Try substituting a length of 14 gauge copper wire (common house wire) for the penny.
可以尝试使用14号铜线（家里最常见的那种）来提到硬币。
What's more, the penny-pinching has nothing much to do with the fact that Britain is skint.
更要紧的是，这吝啬基本不是因为英国真的是个穷光蛋。
The penny dropped about their true relationship as they talked about their childhoods during lunch.
当他们聊起了各自的童年，两人真正的关系终于真相大白。
However, the penny farthing's popularity lasted only about 20 years, until the advent of the safety bicycle.
不过，随着安全自行车的出现，这种车子只流行了大约20年。
Finally the penny drops and a collective "ahh" is emitted as two women and the rickshaw driver rush off excitedly.
最后他们总算弄明白了，众人如释重负，齐声发出“啊”的叹息声，两个女人和人力车夫很兴奋地走开了。
So for me, the penny did not drop until Wednesday morning that the world now belongs to the generation below mine.
因此，对我而言，直到17日那个早晨我才肯相信，世界如今已经属于我的下一代了。
She causally mentioned that her daughter once had a coin collection, and asked if the penny he had found had been of some value.
先是提起自己的女儿曾经热爱收集硬币，接着她就问老公的老板，是不是刚才那一分钱有什么特殊之处。
We are talking about incredible small amout but that was more than one hundredth of the penny that our competitors would pay.
我们以上所说的不过是一小部分,但是，我们的竞争对手,要比我们多耗费100分。
Perhaps there'll be a valuable learning experience, where someone teaches you about a difficult subject, and the penny finally drops.
或许他们会变成值得学习的经验，有些人会在某些非常难的科目上教导你，最后会破点小财。
In January the penny post was established, covering the whole country: in its first year it would double the volume of letters written.
一月，遍布伦敦的邮局建成了，第一年的书信量就翻了一番。
Then, to keep the financial datamart in sync with the general ledger, once data arrives there it is reconciled back to the data warehouse, down to the penny.
然后使财务数据集市与总帐保持同步，一旦数据到达那里，它被调和回数据仓库，甚至毫厘不差。
The trip was expensive but it was worth every penny.
这次旅行花费很大，但是花的每一分钱都不冤枉。
You'll be able to spend one penny every Sunday through the year.
你可以在全年的每个星期天都花掉一个便士。
They'll diddle you out of your last penny if you give them the chance.
如果你给他们机会，他们就会把你骗得一分不剩。
That holds double for the landlord or developer, who won't actually see a penny of the savings his investment in better insulation or a better heating system might generate.
这对房东或开发商来说是双倍的好处，因为他们实际上会看到，自己在更好的隔热或更好的供暖系统上的投资不会节省一分钱。
From the day you arrive at my house, you need not spend a single penny.
从你到我家的那一天起，你就分文不需花了。
We spent every last penny we had on the house.
我们把所有的钱都花在房子上了。
Government penny-pinching is blamed for the decline in food standards.
政府吝啬被指责是食品标准下降的原因。
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）。
"You can't get a penny if you fail," said the lady.
“如果你失败了，你一分钱都拿不到。”这位女士说。
"You can't get a penny if you fail," said the lady.
“如果你失败了，你一分钱都拿不到。”这位女士说。
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