cent是什么意思_cent怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

cent: cent: [16] Centum is the Latin word for ‘hundred’ – indeed both come ultimately from the same Indo-European source, *kmtóm. It first appeared in English in the form cent in the phrase per cent (originally used apparently by the financier Sir Thomas Gresham in a letter of 1568: ‘the interest of xij per cent by the year’); this was probably borrowed from Italian per cento (it is not a genuine Latin phrase). The use of cent for a unit of currency dates from the 1780s, when it was adopted by the newly founded USA; its status as one hundredth of a dollar was officially ordained by the Continental Congress on 8 August 1786.
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cent (n.): late 14c., from Latin centum "hundred" (see hundred). Middle English meaning was "one hundred," but it shifted 17c. to "hundredth part" under influence of percent. Chosen in this sense in 1786 as a name for a U.S. currency unit by Continental Congress. The word first was suggested by Robert Morris in 1782 under a different currency plan. Before the cent, Revolutionary and colonial dollars were reckoned in ninetieths, based on the exchange rate of Pennsylvania money and Spanish coin.

词态变化

复数 cents;

1. By 1973 the government deficit equalled thirty per cent of GNP.: 到1973年，政府财政赤字相当于国民生产总值的30%。

2. Almost ninety per cent of all rapes and violent assaults went unreported.: 几乎90%的强奸案和暴力侵害案都没有报案。

3. "Prices are down 40 per cent since Christmas," he lamented.: “圣诞节以来物价降了4成，”他悲叹道。

4. In 1986, 44 per cent of those admitted to articles were women.: 1986年，44％的实习生为女性。

5. The bank yesterday revealed a 30 per cent nosedive in profits.: 该银行昨天透露其利润骤降30％。

penny 便士

straw 稻草

copper 铜

centime 生丁(一种货币单位)...

per cent n.百分数,有固定利率之公债

red cent n.一分钱,一便士

two cent"s worth 【美】意见

annual cutting per cent 年伐率

per cent of late wood 晚材率

not care a cent 毫不在乎,毫不介意,不感兴趣,充耳不闻

not worth a cent 一文不值,毫无价值

47 per cent 47％（来自于当时的总统候选人罗姆尼。他曾在一次私人募捐会上表示，无论选情如何变化，总会有至少47％的美国人会为奥巴马投票。）

three per cent n. 三厘利息的公债

mole per cent 摩尔百分数

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