pounds

chunk four pounds of pears.

把四磅梨分成数份。

he was thirty pounds underweight.

他比标准重轻30磅。

offer 1.000 pounds for the house

出价一千镑买这所房子

sweat away two pounds in tropics

在热带地方因出汗多而减轻了两磅重

a variation of ten pounds in weight.

在重上十磅的变

We are 500 pounds to the good.

我们盈余500英镑。

We paid a subscription of 5 pounds yearly.

我们按年度缴纳5英镑的订阅费。

it's worth a thousand pounds, a bonny sum.

这值一千英镑，很大一笔钱。

five pounds—that's a bit dear!.

五英镑——有点贵！。

that sum equates to half a million pounds today.

那笔款项相当于今天的50万英镑。

she only had a few pounds on her.

她身上只有几个英镑。

knocked off 12 pounds in a month.

一个重减了12磅

little more than a few pounds and a handful of shrapnel.

不过几个英镑再加一点儿零钱。

We are ten pounds out in our accounts.

我们的账上有10镑的差错。

Five pounds doesn’t go very far these days.

如今5英镑买不了多少东西。

They cost thousands if not millions of pounds to build.

建造这些即便不会耗费数百万英镑，也要数千英镑。

work off extra pounds; work off a debt.

除掉多余的重；用工作清偿债务

He weighed 10 pounds at birth.

他出生时有10磅重。

A wage rise of 10 pounds a week across the board.

全成员人周加薪10镑。

I advanced 200 pounds more on these books.

这些书我又多预付了200英镑。