Dollar

(noun.) a symbol of commercialism or greed; 'he worships the almighty dollar'; 'the dollar sign means little to him'.

(noun.) a United States coin worth one dollar; 'the dollar coin has never been popular in the United States'.

(noun.) a piece of paper money worth one dollar.

(noun.) the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents.

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• The Moors have some small silver coins and also some silver slugs worth a dollar each. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He found that after paying his hotel bill he would have less than half a dollar in the world. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• At that day fifty dollar gold pieces, not the issue of the government, were common on the Pacific coaSt. They were called slugs. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• When they parted, the senator put into his hand a ten-dollar bill. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• In the end, however, the complainant had nothing to show for all his struggle, as the master who made the accounting set the damages at one dollar! 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I'd like to have a dollar for every time I've slept in that thing in the snow. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• That it was a deep-sea fish was indicated by the small eye, which was about the size of a silver dollar. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The lack of such a place never prevented experimentation, however, as long as he had a dollar in his pocket and some available hole in the wall. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• And once there was a young man in America who gambled till he had lost his last dollar. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• There's many of 'em who can't spend a dollar to your guinea, my boy. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I'd never grudge a dollar that was spent on that. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It rises to the surface in slogans like human rights above property rights, the man above the dollar. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• You can buy enough velvet in Genoa for twenty-five dollars to make a five hundred dollar cloak in New York--so the ladies tell me. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I will risk another dollar on him. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• To this question a strict regard for truth compels the answer that they have not been benefited at all, not to the extent of a single dollar, so far as cash damages are concerned. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I kept the horse until he was four years old, when he went blind, and I sold him for twenty dollars. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• I've saved you some thousands of dollars, at different times, by taking care of your hands,--that's all the thanks I get. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Hundreds of cities and millions of dollars have been thus saved from destruction. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Clear waste, sir, of a thousand dollars, just for want of management,--there's where 't is. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• That was a slander; they were broken to the saddle when I got them and cost nearly twenty dollars. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Forty thousand dollars was named and accepted. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The result has been the saving of vast amounts of maritime property, estimated at many millions of dollars yearly. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• At the end of the interview the owner had offered Edison the position of manager at a salary of three hundred dollars a month, and Edison had accepted. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It was exploited under the powerful patronage of a syndicate of newspaper men, and hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent in perfecting it before any practical results were obtained. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In 1847 the subject was again taken up for serious consideration, the work begun in 1860, and finished in 1869, at a cost of ￡20,500,000, or more than a hundred million dollars. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Twelve dollars--twelve dollars a day for flowers? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It is a lucrative source of emolument, and sometimes brings into the national treasury as much as thirty-five or forty dollars a year. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• They have also a small gold coin worth two dollars. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Yes, it will be worth at least as much as a thousand dollars--when you get it done. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Yes; I heard Grant lost five or six dollars' worth of horses the other day, he replied. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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