He scraped together 20,000 Kenyan shillings (about $200) to plant tomatoes.

他凑 20,000 肯尼亚先令（约合 200 美元）来种植西红柿。

I'd like two shillin' better, the prodigy answered after some thought.

那天真小孩想想，又说道：“最好给两个先令。

So it said, " Hi Mom, hi Dad, this is little Joey" —whatever the name of the kid was—" Try and save 100 shillings this week for the future of our family."

所以短信写着，“爸爸妈妈，是小乔伊，”——不管孩子名字是什么——“这周请尝试着存下 100 先令，为家未来。”

Come back in less than five minutes and I'll give you three shillings! '

如果在5分钟之内回来就给你三个先令！"

Pence, shilling, pound and inch, foot, yard... all these are hard to be forgotten.

便士、先令、英，英寸、英尺、码… … 这些实在他难以忘怀。

" I will devalue the shilling over my dead body, " Nyerere fumed afterwards.

尼雷尔事后生气说，“要先令贬值，除非死。”

Many Americans thought of money as the pounds and shillings of the British system.

许多美国人认为，钱依旧是英国英和先令。

Half-crowns, florins, shillings, sixpences, and threepenny pieces are made of silver.

二先令六便士、弗罗林（一种货币）、先令、六便士以及三便士都是由银做。

'He was not a good lad. I will not pay a shilling for him! '

“他那时就不是一个好小伙子。不会为他付一个先令！”

My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10 shillings.

总收入共计二十七英十先令。

Life was hard out there because I had to pay five shillings.

外面生活很艰难，因为得付5先令。

His pocket was empty;he had not a solitary shilling, not so much as a penny.

他口袋里是空空如也，没有一个先令连一个便士也没有！

It needs to be a lot of money, I suppose. 40 shillings.

那得要很多钱，猜40先令。

That was the number of pennies in a shilling.

即一先令便士数。

But you're called my assistant now and you've seven shillings extra every month.

但你现在已经是助手，月薪也涨七先令。

'A hundred and six and a quarter to a hundred and five and seveneighths.'

'一百零六五先令至一百零五十七先令半。'

The weekly value of these sacrifices averages just over 72 Kenyan shillings, that's 84 American cents, not a trivial amount, seeing that the daily wage of a Kenyan labourer can be as little as a dollar.

这样牺牲每周平均只值72肯尼亚先令（84美分）多一点，对于有时一天只能挣1美元肯尼亚工人来说已经不少。

But when the main band failed to show up, they were asked to perform, they played those two songs over and over and returned home with bellies full of ale and pockets stuffed with ten shillings each.

但当主乐队没有出现时，他被要求表演，他反复播放这两首歌，然后带着满满啤酒和每个口袋里塞满10先令口袋回家。

Those early years were wonderful. We didn't have much money, of course, and we had to work very hard. A new actor only got six shillings a week, and there wasn't work every week. I decided not to be an actor.

在伦敦最初几年情况很好。由于身边钱不多，工作很卖劲。因为新演员一星期只能拿到6先令报酬，更何况并不是每个星期都能上台演出，最后决定放弃做演员。

At last she said, with forced composure in her voice, " If that bank goes wrong, I shall lose one hundred and forty-nine pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence a year; I shall only have thirteen pounds a year left."

最后她强装镇定地说：“要是那家银行出事，每年就会损失149英13先令4便士；每年就只剩下13英。”