美元(U.S. dollar)最常见的俗称(colloquialism)是buck【可能与早期鹿皮(bucks扶贫济困
kin)的贸易有关】,但严格地讲,这个词只对应dollar,可以用于其它国家的同名货币。如superb hotel for a few bucks。同义词还有bone和bean。如You owe me 5 bones;It cost me forty beans。
Greenback只限于指美元钞票(U.S. Federal Rerve Note)【与Federal Rerve Bank Note不同】。如Havin教育笔记大班
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enbacks for dwelling refurbishments is frequently not necessarily a good choice as a conquence of shortage of obtainable financing. 钞票通常叫banknote、bill【还可以指100美元】、note、paper currency或paper money。任何面额(denomination)的美钞都可以用其上总统的名或姓来称呼。美元新版钞票俗称包括bigface bill和Monopoly money。如I got a pocket fulla big faces on me. at least bill gates t up the gates foundation with some of his monopoly money. 其它同义词包括green、smacker和dead presidents/decead presidents。
如:Someone dressing well to impress others may refer to their behaviour as "flashing their greens".
Can I plea have 50 smackers so that I can go to the store and buy a bottle of whiskey?
Yo man the oakleys are gonna cost ya 56 dead presidents.
一美分(U.S. One Cent):penny。如Hey there's a penny on the ground!
两美分(U.S. Two Cents)
五美分(U.S. Five Cents):nickel。如nickelodeon指门票(admission)五美分的影院。如Don’t nickel and dime me.【别零碎地给我,一次性付完】
一角:(U.S. One Dime):short bit。如Buddy can you spare a dime?
二十五美分(U.S. Quarter Dollar):quarter、two bits、two bit【但two-bit指廉价、低俗。如I don’t want any two-bit actors in this play. 但two cents指意见。如I’d like to throw in my two cents.】。
如:Hey Princeton! Give me a quarter!
Shave and a haircut, two bits.
五十美分(U.S. Half-dollar):four bits。如When I was a lad, it was afour-bit (fifty cents) word.
一美元(U.S. one-dollar bill):George、single、buck、clam、simoleon。如:
Dude, lend me a George, I'm jonesin' for a Hershey bar.
Can I get a five and five singles?
It cost five clams for a sandwich at the restaurant.
The guy's got more simoleons than all of us put together.
两美元(U.S. two-dollar bill):deuce、Tom、Jefferson、T.J.。如: Adeuce for the hat-check girl幼儿园生活活动
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五美元(U.S. five-dollar bill):five、Abe、Lincoln、fiver、fin(过时)、finif(过时)、finski(过时)、five-spot、faux Euro、nickel、fever。
如:Can I get a five and five singles?
Guy 2: how much? Guy 1: an Abe.
Could you lend me a few fivers?
I mowed the guy's lawn, and all he gave me was a fin.
That movie ticket only cost me a finif.
Can I get a five spot from you?
hey i got a fever man you right?
十美元(U.S. ten-dollar bill):ten、sawbuck【罗马数字十(X)看着像锯木头用的支撑
物sawbuck】、Hamilton、ten-spot、dime、tension。如:
Slap me a sawbuck and I'll get us some beers, fella.
I need a Twomp sack but i only got Tension!
Anybody Got a Ten-Spot?
Yo im broke hook me up a little dime and I pay you back soon.
二十美元(U.S. twenty-dollar bill):twenty、double sawbuck【double sawbucks则指两张十美元钞票】、dub、Jackson、snap、twenty-banger、twomp。
如:I need a Twomp sack but i only got Tension!
You got that double sawbuck you owed me?
That CD player is like two dubs.
A jackson is a twenty dollar bill, not a cock. That's a Johnson you dumb shit.
二十五美元(没有对应的钞票):quarter。
五十美元(U.S. fifty-dollar bill):fifty、fitty、half a yard、worker bee、half C、half century。如:Hey yo how much you paid for tho jeans? Ahhh, about fitty dollas.
I took him for everthing he had, Mac, which was half a yard.
The 50 dollar bag, we call that half century.
一百美元(U.S. one-hundred-dollar bill):a hundred、Benjamin、C-note【罗马数字一百(C)】、C、Benji、Franklin、Frank、century note、bill、yard、honey bee。
What is in this bag?--it's full of benjamins!
You owe me one C-Note from that loan I gave you.
Travelin' Matt had a benji stitched under a patch on his pants for emergencies.
Mia is definitely worth multiple franklins, how el would I get a milf muffstache?
Yo Rob, i heard that stuff cost you 2 yards!
I went to the casino last night and dropped a honey bee.
I got a couple of century notes for driving the guys home from the bank.
Them Nikes cost over a bill.
一千美元(没有对应的钞票):large【银行业】、K【源自kilo】、grand、stack、G【源自grand】、big one、bundle、rack。如:
That'll cost you ten big ones!
I paid 5K.
That mope owes Joey 50 large.
I paid 20 grand for that truck and now it's ruined.
Let me borrow a G.
Yo, I only gotta stack to play wit for the weekend.
It costs at least a rack to get slugged out with plattinum, ya dig.
一万美元(没有对应的钞票):rack、dime。如Tho cops pinched a dime off me when I was in.