It is often stated that we use only 10 per cent of our brain.(常有報告稱人只運用了大腦的10%。)

I won't waste a cent.(我不會浪費一分錢。)

Travel agents charge 1 per cent commission on tickets.(旅行社收1%的購票服務費。)

House prices rose five per cent last year.(去年房價上漲百分之五。)

The cost of third-class mail has gone up by 50 per cent.(第三類郵件的郵資上漲了50%。)

I wouldn't give a cent.(我一分錢也不給。)

Their profits have fallen by 30 per cent.(他們的利潤減少了30%。)

The basic pay of the average worker has risen by 3 per cent.(工人的平均基本工資上升了3%。)

I didn't pay a cent.(我一分錢都沒出。)

I still don't feel a hundred per cent.(我還是覺得有些不舒服。)

在郵局

A：Three twenty-five cent stamps, please.
請給我三張25 分的郵票。

B：Here you are. Seventy-five cents, please.
好的。請給我75 分。

cent是什么意思

A：And please send this letter by registered mail.
還要寄這封掛號信。

cent的反義詞

B：Is there anything valuable in it?
里面有什么重要的東西嗎？

A：There’s a check for two hundred dollars and a photograph.
里面有一張200 元的支票及一張照片。

B：Shall I make out a receipt?
您需要開一張收據嗎？

cent的意思

A：No, don’t bother.
不用了，不用麻煩。

B：That will be ninety-five cents in all.
那總共需要95 分。

在商店

A：Would you give me some fruits? How much are these oranges?
能給我一些水果嗎？這些桔子要多少錢？

B：Seventy cents a piece.
一個7 角。

A：How about this one?
這個怎樣？

cent

B：Sixty cents a piece.
6 角一個。

A：Well, I’ll take five of the seventy cent ones, and are those grapefruits sweet?
哦，我要5 個7 角的，另外這些葡萄柚甜嗎？

B：Sure! They are very fresh, first of all. We sell at a bargain, and you make a wise purchase if you buy them today. Eighty cents only, a piece.
當然甜！最重要的是新鮮。我們便宜賣，如果你今天買就很劃算，一個只要8 角錢。

A：I follow you and I’ll take three just for my trial.
我懂你的意思，我買3 個試試。

B：Thank you very much and anything else?
非常謝謝你，還要其他東西嗎？

A：That’s all. Thank you.
就只要這些了。謝謝。

用作名詞(n.)

很窮 be very poor

1. not care a cent : 毫不在乎；

cent

用作名詞(n.)

There has been a uniform fare of ten cents for any distance ever since.
從那以后不論遠近車費一律是一角錢。There are special buses carrying visitors to the reservoir at the charge of twenty cents each.
有專線汽車送旅客到水庫,票價2角。The eggs cost ten cents each.
這些雞蛋一角錢一個。I had a small room at a cost of fifteen cents per night.
我以每晚15便士的價錢租下了一個小房間。The ferry hiked the fare to forty cents.
渡口把船費提高到40美分。The strikers held out for a raise of five cents an hour.
罷工的人堅持要求每小時增加5分錢。The motor-car industry has cut back production by fifteen per cent.
汽車工業把產量削減了15%。Traffic accidents have increased by five per cent in the past year.
去年交通事故增加了5%。

用作名詞 (n.)

動詞+～

care a cent在乎

介詞+～

per cent百分之…

If you marry that Alec, you don't get a cent.