dime

英 [da?m] 美[da?m]

CET6+TEM4TOEFL低頻詞擴展詞匯

復數:?dimes;

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

dime 十分硬幣

來自拉丁語decima, 十，十分之一，詞源同ten, December. 用于貨幣單位。比較dinar.

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 d?me) "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).

4. In the squares place a penny, nickel, dime and quarter in that order. The object is to reverse the order of these coins.: 在這些方塊中按順序放置1分、5分、10分和25分的硬幣各一枚。目標是顛倒這些硬幣的順序。

5. The gentleman looked him over and fished for a dime.: 這個紳士打量了他一下,伸手想摸塊1角的銀幣.