I literally don't have 500 quid to give you.
我真的没有500英镑给你。
Coat the quid with flour, it'll make it drier.
把鱿鱼裹上面粉,让它变干。
At the airport she was stung for a few quid for having excess luggage.
在机场她由于行李超重而被索取几英镑。
For someone I barely know and don't much like, I give a couple of quid.
对我几乎不怎么熟悉、也不太喜欢的人,我就给两英镑。
According to Venture Capital Journal, you can visualize Quid as follows.
《风险投资期刊》(Venture Capital Journal)刊文称,Quid的形象可以设想如下。
Only 200 quid a week to spend your days up to your elbows in dirty nappies!
天天累死累活地洗脏尿布,一周才挣200英镑!
Please accept the use of our cottage as a quid pro quo for lending us your car.
请尽管使用我们的村舍,以酬谢借给我们汽车之事。
Owners of bikes costing more than a few hundred quid should always take them indoors.
那些价值数百英镑的车最好锁在屋里。
In the Andes, time is often measured by how long it takes to chew a quid of coca leaf.
在安第斯山脉,许多人每每用嚼一块古柯叶所用的时间作为计较时间的单元。
I'm going to sell it online and if I can make a few quid out of it then all the better.
我打算在网上卖了它,如果我能从中捞点钱,那就好多了。
Cut me a quid, as'll likely be the last, lad, for I'm for my long home, and no mistake.
给我切一块,这也许是最后一口了,我不久就要回老家了,没错。
It was just random things to start with, like batteries, that I could sell on for a couple of quid.
刚开始我就偷些随随便便的东西,比如电池。我可以拿偷来的这些东西去卖点钱。
And a piece of steak was such a little thing, a few pennies at best; yet it meant thirty quid to him.
区区一块牛排,最多不过值几个便士,然而对他来说,却等于三十金镑。
It would be worth the risk just to tell the senior editor that he had missed out on a couple of hundred quid.
风险是风险,不过还是值得的。要是赢了,我就可告诉我的高级编辑,说他白白丢了几百英镑。
That would have been a knockout, and he could have carried the thirty quid home to the missus and the kiddies.
这一拳打得还不够准,如果这一拳正打在了他的下巴尖上的话,肯定能把他打昏过去,那样汤姆·金就可以带着三十磅钱回家同老婆孩子在一起了。
For international multinationals, technology transfer has long been the quid pro quo of landing deals in China.
对各跨国公司而言,技术转让一直是敲定在华合约的交换条件。
We fixed on one about the size of a small washing machine, and my wife haggled the price down to about twenty quid.
我们看中了一个有小型洗衣机那么大的,我妻子把价钱砍到两英镑左右。
Responsibility is a verbal counterfeit for a substantial quid pro quo. It is an attempt to get something for nothing.
是实体代用品的言语伪装,试图不付出而取得一些回报。
After all, you care about the individual; if you expected a quid pro quo, you didn't have much of a friendship to begin with.
毕竟,你关心那个人;如果你期望报偿,你的友谊就开始不那么纯粹了。
Then he went home in triumph claiming to have spotted the book in the second-hand bookshop and "beaten them down to two quid".
然后,他得意地回到学校,宣称已在旧书店找到了这本书,并且“杀价到两英镑”。
The man whom he called Morgan — an old, grey-haired, mahogany-faced sailor — came forward pretty sheepishly, rolling his quid.
被他叫做摩根的那个人——一个上了岁数的、灰白头发红脸膛的水手——相当顺从地走过来,一边嚼着烟草块。
'This time of year, when it don't rain, I take about three quid between Friday and sunday-people get their wages Fridays, you see.
一年里的这时候,不下雨的话,我星期五和星期六挣三镑左右——你知道,人们是星期五发工资。
'This time of year, when it don't rain, I take about three quid between Friday and sunday-people get their wages Fridays, you see.
一年里的这时候,不下雨的话,我星期五和星期六挣三镑左右——你知道,人们是星期五发工资。
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