a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970
sixpence的用法和樣例:
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用作名詞 (n.)
The book costs sixpence. 這本書價值六便士。
Wages were sixpence a week within living memory. 周工資為六便士的年代,人們記憶猶新。
On him way to the sweet shop, he dropped his sixpence and it rolled along the pavement and then disappeared down a drain. 他在去糖果店的路上,把錢掉到地上了,硬幣沿著人行道滾動,掉進陰溝里去了。