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Apiece Dollar Number Cents Means Ten Sale Eleven

英语单词 apiece
英美音标 英 [ə'piːs] 美 [ə'piːs]
中文释义 adv.每人;每个;各
英语例句 (1) She gave the boys a dollar apiece.
(2) Yorke and Cole scored a goal apiece.
(3) The apples are five cents apiece.
(4) The largest stones weigh over five tonnes apiece.
(5) They both hold apiece an opinion.
中文例句 (1) 她给孩子们每人一美元。
(2) 约克和科尔每人各进一球。
(3) 这些苹果5美分一个。
(4) 最大的石头每块重五吨以上。
(5) 他们俩各执己见。
vocabulary简明 The adverb apiece means "for each" or "to each." If your grandmother gives you and your cousins ten dollars apiece, she hands each of you a ten dollar bill.
vocabulary扩展 When you sell cookies at a bake sale for a dollar apiece, every individual cookie costs one dollar. And if two competing baseball teams have eleven wins apiece, it means that they're tied for the season so far — they've each won eleven games. Apiece, first used in the 1500s, was a contraction of a pece, which was almost always used to talk about coins or items for sale.
柯林斯解释
1
[ADV 副词]每人 If people have a particular number of things apiece, they have that number each.
  [amount ADV]
  • He and I had two fish apiece...

    他和我各有两条鱼。

  • The World Series between the Atlanta Braves and Toronto Blue Jays is tied at one game apiece.

    世界系列赛上,亚特兰大勇士队和多伦多蓝鸟队双方各赢一场,战成平局。

2
[ADV 副词]每件;每个 If a number of similar things are for sale at a certain price apiece, that is the price for each one of them.
  [amount ADV]
  • Entire roast chickens were sixty cents apiece.

    烤全鸡每只60美分。

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