dime是什么意思_dime怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

dime: dime: [14] Dime originally meant ‘tenth part’, and often specifically a ‘tax of one tenth, tithe’: ‘From all times it was ordained to pay dimes or tithes unto the Lord’, James Howell, Lexicon tetraglotton 1660. It came via Old French disme from Latin decima ‘tenth part’, a derivative of decem ‘ten’ (to which English ten is related). The application of the word to a coin worth one tenth of a US dollar dates from the 1780s.
=> decimal, ten
dime (n.): chosen 1786 as name for U.S. 10 cent coin, from dime "a tenth, tithe" (late 14c.), from Old French disme (Modern French dîme) "a tenth part," from Latin decima (pars) "tenth (part)," from decem "ten" (see ten).

The verb meaning "to inform" (on someone) is 1960s, from the then-cost of a pay phone call. A dime a dozen "almost worthless" first recorded 1930. Phrase stop on a dime attested by 1954 (a dime being the physically smallest unit of U.S. currency).

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复数 dimes;

4. In the squares place a penny, nickel, dime and quarter in that order. The object is to reverse the order of these coins.: 在这些方块中按顺序放置1分、5分、10分和25分的硬币各一枚。目标是颠倒这些硬币的顺序。

5. The gentleman looked him over and fished for a dime.: 这个绅士打量了他一下,伸手想摸块1角的银币.

a dime a dozen 不希罕

dime store 廉价商店

dime novel 故事动人但毫无文学价...

dime museum 简易博物馆

nickel-and-dime 拥有或支付仅一小笔钱...

five-and-dime 专售廉价物品的商店(...

penny 便士

on a dime 在很小的间内...

get off the dime 开始

nickle and dime 要零钱

not give a dime a dozen 认为毫无价值...

dime bag phr. 10美元毒品小包

dime novel n.故事动人但毫无文学价值的小说

dime museum n. 简易博物馆

dime store n. 廉价商店,折扣商店

on a dime 在很小的范围内;立刻

drop the dime on 告密

stop on a dime 立即刹住

a dime magazine 廉价杂志

a dime of dozen 多得很,不值钱

do not care a dime 毫不在乎

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1. ten => dime => "a tenth, a tenth part" (of dollar) => 一角硬币, 10美分硬币.
2. ten => tithe.