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

他凑了 20,000 肯尼亚先令（约合 200 美元）来植西红柿。

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，我是小乔伊，”——不管孩子的名字是什么——“这周请尝试着存下 100 先令，了我们家的未来。”

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

如果在5分钟之内回来我就给你三个先令！"

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

便士、先令、英镑，英寸、英尺、码… … 这些实在让他们难以忘怀。

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

尼雷尔事后生气的说，“要让先令贬值，除非我死了。”

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

许多美国认，钱依旧是英国的英镑和先令。

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

二先令六便士、弗罗林（币）、先令、六便士以及三便士都是由银做的。

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

“他那时就不是个好小伙子。我不会他付个先令！”

My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10 shillings.

我的收入共计二十七英镑十先令。

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

外面的生活很艰难，因我得付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，没有个先令连个便士也没有！

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

那得要很多钱，我猜40先令。

That was the number of pennies in a shilling.

即先令的便士数。

You could vote if you paid X number of pounds and shillings in taxes.

如果你纳足够的税 你就可以参加选举。

A 20-liter can of water sells for 20 shillings, or $0.16.

罐20升的水售价20先令，约合0.16美元。

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

但你现在已经是我的助手了，月薪也涨了七先令。

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.

这样的牺牲每周平均只值72肯尼亚先令（84美分）多点，对于有时天只能挣1美元的肯尼亚工来说已经不少了。

And the Wellcome Trust, a British foundation that is the world's second-biggest charitable source of scientific money, after the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, also insists that those who take its shilling make their work available free.

仅次于比尔和梅林达盖茨基金会的英国维康信托基金是世界上第二大科研资金获取来源，也坚持凡是使用它的资金就必须免费公开成果。

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，他们被要求表演，他们反复播放这两首歌，然后带着满满的啤酒和每个口袋里塞满10先令的口袋回家。

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.

在伦敦最初几年的情况很好。由于身边钱不多，我们工作很卖劲。因新演员星期只能拿到6先令的报酬，更何况并不是每个星期都能上台演出，最后我决定放弃做演员。