Placing a silver sixpence in the bride's left shoe is a symbol of wealth.

I gave him sixpence yesterday and advised him to save it.

我昨天给了他六便士,并建议他把这点钱积存起来.

Please give me six pennies for this sixpence.

请给我把这个六便士的硬币换成六个一便士的硬币.

Would you mind giving me the sixpence in copper?

请给我6便士铜币好 吗 ?

We were permitted to buy our meal tickets for seven shillings and sixpence.

允许我们买7先令6便士的进餐券.

The book costs sixpence.

这本书价值六便士.

Seven sixpence times three . Two and nine.

七先令六便士乘以三,两先令六便士.

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue and a sixpence in your shoe.

有旧, 有新, 有借, 有蓝;在一只鞋里放一枚六便士的银币.

Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye.

唱一支六便士之歌,满口袋的黑麦.

It doesn't matter sixpence.

这不要紧.

Messenger boys stealing to put on sixpence.

送信的小伙子们为了弄到六便士的赌本竟去偷窃.

But size, like sentiment, can turn a sixpence.

但就像人气一样, 规模也会有起有落.

London taxis are easy to park because they turn on a sixpence.

伦敦的出租车很容易停车,因为它们兜的范围很小.

Here's a sixpence for you. Do you know why there are no apples on that tree?

给你六个便士, 你知道为什么这棵树上没有苹果 吗 ?

Wages were sixpence a week within living memory.

周工资为六便士的年代,人们记忆犹新.

He moved to London when he was sixteen (= 16 years old) .

他十六岁那年搬到了伦敦。

sixteen years later

十六年后

You can get married at sixteen, and yet you haven't got a say in the running of the country.

你16岁时可以结婚，但还无权参与国家政事。

At the age of sixteen he qualified for a place at the University of Hamburg.

16岁时，他就有资格进入汉堡大学。

...exams taken at the age of sixteen...

16 岁时参加的考试

At sixteen he could drink me under the table.

16岁的时候他就能把我灌醉了。