dime
n. 10分硬币(美、加)
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教材释义与例句
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释义与例句
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A coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, that is, ten cents.
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A small amount of money.
加拿大 美国She didn't spend a dime.
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An assist.
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A playing card with the rank of ten.
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Ten dollars.
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A thousand dollars.
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A measure of illicit drugs (usually marijuana) sold in ten-dollar bags.
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A ten-year prison sentence.
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Payment responsibility.
俚语Are you traveling on the company's dime?
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A beautiful woman (10 on a 10-point scale).
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A defensive formation with six defensive backs, one of whom is a dimeback.
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A particularly long or precise throw that ends with a catch.
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To inform on, to turn in to the authorities, to rat on, especially anonymously.
美国 俚语Somebody dimed on me and I got arrested for selling marijuana.
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To operate an audio amplifier (especially an electric guitar amplifier) at level "10" (typically the highest amplification level).
美国 俚语I get the best-sounding sustain and smooth harmonic distortion when I run the amp dimed.
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词源
From Middle English dime, from Anglo-Norman disme (“one tenth, tithe”) (modern French dîme), from Medieval Latin decima, from Latin decima (pars) (“tenth (part)”). Doublet of decim, decima, and decime.
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