單詞
pennyfarthing
英文詞源
- pennyfarthing (adj.)
- also penny farthing, penny-farthing, "ineffective," 1887, from penny + farthing, the two together making but a small sum. The noun, in reference to the kind of bicycle with a small wheel in back and a big one in front (so called from the notion of different size coins) is first recorded 1927.
雙語例句
- 1. The ancestor of the modern bicycle is called a penny farthing.
- 現(xiàn)代自行車的原型叫做‘前輪大后輪小的自行車’.
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