I'm sorry, sir. We don't accept this currency. You have to pay it in US, Canadian and HK dollars, UK pounds or German marks.

对不起，先生。我们不收这种钱。我们只收美元、加元、港币、英镑或德国马克。

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In the UK alone, consumers spend over five billion pounds each year on these.

仅在英国，消费者每年在这些（产品）上的花费就超过50亿英镑。

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The guys in the UK are even luckier - they can get it for 299 pounds (that makes around 342 euro).

在英国的朋友们更加幸运，他们只需花299英镑(折合约342欧元)。

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because it literally only cost them ten pounds for them to come to Australia from the UK.

因为实际上他们从英国到澳大利亚只花了十英镑。

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His family said they had been told the price of his release would be several million Syrian pounds (tens of thousands of UK pounds or US dollars).

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The inability of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to properly curb aggressive tax avoidance schemes is costing the UK billions of pounds, a report suggests.

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The US adopted decimal dollars hundreds of years ago and the UK clung to pounds-shillings-pence-farthings until 1976(?) Hardly anyone but older Britons can even imagine how to divide a bill for 7 Pounds, 5 Shillings and five Pence among three diners, or the painful calculations involved.

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