美元不同面额的英文表达.docxVIP

美元（U.S. dollar）最常见的俗称（colloquialism）是buck【可能与早期鹿皮（buckskin）的贸易有关】，但严格地讲，这个词只对应dollar，可以用于其它国家的同名货币。如superb hotel for a few?bucks。同义词还有bone和bean。如You?owe me?5?bones；It cost me forty?beans。 Greenback只限于指美元钞票（U.S. Federal Reserve Note）【与Federal Reserve Bank Note不同】。如Having to pay large amounts of?greenbacks?for dwelling refurbishments is frequently not necessarily a good choice as a consequence of shortage of obtainable financing.?钞票通常叫banknote、bill【还可以指100美元】、note、paper currency或paper money。任何面额（denomination）的美钞都可以用其上总统的名或姓来称呼。美元新版钞票俗称包括bigface bill和Monopoly money。如I got a pocket fulla?big faces?on me. at least bill gates set up the gates foundation with some of his?monopoly money.?其它同义词包括green、smacker和dead presidents/deceased presidents。 如：Someone dressing well to impress others may refer to their behaviour as flashing their?greens. Can I please have 50?smackers?so that I can go to the store and buy a bottle of whiskey? Yo man these oakleys are gonna cost ya 56?dead presidents. 一美分（U.S. One Cent）：penny。如Hey theres a penny on the ground! 两美分（U.S. Two Cents） 五美分（U.S. Five Cents）：nickel。如nickelodeon指门票（admission）五美分的影院。如Don’t nickel and dime me.【别零碎地给我，一次性付完】 一角：（U.S. One Dime）：short bit。如Buddy can you spare a dime? ? 二十五美分（U.S. Quarter Dollar）：quarter、two bits、two bit【但two-bit指廉价、低俗。如I don’t want any?two-bit?actors in this play.?但two cents指意见。如I’d like to throw in my two cents.】。 如：Hey Princeton!?Give me a?quarter! Shave and a haircut,?two bits. 五十美分（U.S. Half-dollar）：four bits。如When I was a lad, it was afour-bit?(fifty cents) word. 一美元（U.S. one-dollar bill）：George、single、buck、clam、simoleon。如： Dude, lend me a?George, Im jonesin for a Hershey bar. Can I get a five and five?singles? It cost five?clams?for a sandwich at the restaurant. The guys got more?simoleons?than all of us put together. 两美元（U.S. two-dollar bill）：deuce、Tom、Jefferson、T.J.。如：?Adeuce?for the hat-check girl. ? 五美元（U.S. five-dollar bill）：five、Abe、Lincoln、fiver、fin（过时）、finif（过时）、finski（过时）、five-spot、faux Eu