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Pin money
小时候,我们最开心的可能就是家长发零用钱的日子了。那么你知道怎么用地道的英语表达“零用钱”吗?
19世纪之前,针还不能大规模生产,而是由英国皇室所指定的厂家生产,因此价格比较昂贵,一般家庭需要专门留一笔钱来购买针。据说,每年年初妻子都会向丈夫要钱,去市场上尽可能多买些针。如果针价下降,多余的钱就用来购买其他个人用品。
至此,pin money在英语中保留,意为用来购买非必需品的零花钱
Pin money零用钱
* Pin money is small amounts of extra money that someone earns or gets in order to buy things that they want but that they do not really need.
She has a regular full-time job but she earns extra pin money from babysitting. 她有固定的全职工作,但她还兼职当保姆来赚零用钱。When I was a child, I liked doing some housework at home to gain more pin money.小时候,我喜欢在家做一些家务来赚更多的零花钱。Your pin money. His life fountain! Please help build water tanks in dry regions of West China to improve the living conditions there.你的零用钱,他的救命水!请为在中国西部干旱地区建立水箱而贡献您的一份力量,改善他们的生存环境。
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