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'...at that time there were twelve pennies in a shilling, and twenty shillings in a pound, sometimes called a sovereign. two shillings were called a florin, and two shillings and sixpence a half-crown. A guinea was a gold coin worth twenty-one shillings. "

 Standing upright within the chariot was a beautiful girl clothed in flowing robes of silver gauze and wearing a jeweled diadem upon her dainty head.

British Museum

Some terrific guesses for today’s ‪#‎MysteryObject‬! It is a decorated funerary diadem, found on the skull of a skeleton in a tomb. It was made in Late Bronze Age Cyprus (1400–1200 BC), by stamping sheet gold with specially prepared punches. If you look closely, depicted on the diadem are two rows of figure-of-eight shields and bulls' heads, each decorated with a lotus flower. Together with the diadem, funerary mouthpieces were also found placed over the mouthhttp://ow.ly/WWIUE

一些很棒的猜測為今天的#mysteryobject! 這是一個裝飾funerary冠冕, 上發現的頭骨的骨架墳墓裡. 它是在遲到青銅時代的賽普勒斯土耳其共和國(1400-1200前), 被禁錮薄片黃金和特地準備拳. 如果你仔細看, 描繪的冠冕在兩排的花樣-of-八盾牌和牛的頭, 每個曾經和一朵蓮花. 一起的冠冕, funerary

從英文翻譯

diadem

Pronunciation: /ˈdʌɪədɛm/

noun

• a jewelled crown or headband worn as a symbol of sovereignty.
• (the diadem) archaic the authority or dignity symbolized by a crown: he refused the diadem of all the Caesars

Derivatives

diademed

adjective

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shilling 先令
(shĭl'ĭng)
n.

1. (Abbr. s.) A coin used in the United Kingdom, worth one twentieth of a pound, 5 new pence, or 12 old pence prior to 1971.
2. A basic unit of currency in Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda.
3. Printing. A virgule.

(vûr'gyūl)
n. Printing
A diagonal mark ( / ) used especially to separate alternatives, as in and/or, to represent the word per, as in miles/hour, and to indicate the ends of verse lines printed continuously, as in Old King Cole/Was a merry old soul.

[French, comma, obelus, from Late Latin virgula, accentual mark, from Latin, obelus, diminutive of virga, rod.]

[Middle English, from Old English scilling.]

• [ʃíliŋ]

[名]シリング.

1 英国の貨幣単位, 白銅貨幣（1971年2月廃止）；旧制度でポンド(pound)の1/20で12ペンス(pence)に相当；新制度で1シリングは5ペンスとして1991年3月まで通用した（略：s.）. ⇒PENNY 1

2 かつての英本国以外のアイルランド・ナイジェリアなどで使用の小額通貨；ポンドの1/20, 12ペンスに相当.

3 オーストラリア・ケニア・ソマリア・ウガンダなどの貨幣単位；100セントに相当.

look as though one has lost a shilling and found sixpence

((英略式))悲しそうな顔をする.

take the King's ［the Queen's］ shilling

((英))兵士になる.


pound

• [páund]

[名]（複 〜s, ((集合的))〜）
I ［重量単位］

1
(1) 常用ポンド(avoirdupois pound)：一般に商業で用いる単位；16オンス, 0.4536kgに相当（記号：lb）

drop pounds
やせる

pack on pounds
太る

Thirty pounds is quite a lot for a turkey.
30ポンドって七面鳥としては大きいね（▼体重を示す主語は複数形でも動詞は単数呼応）.

(2) トロイポンド(troy pound)：金・銀など貴金属の重量単位；12トロイオンス, 0.3732kgに相当（記号：lb.t.）.
(3) （米国で）薬用ポンド(apothecaries' pound)：薬剤師の重量単位；12トロイオンスに相当（記号：lb. ap.）.
II ［貨幣単位］

2 ポンド(pound sterling)：英国・英連邦の通貨単位（▼100ペンスに相当. 1971年1月以前は20シリング, 240ペンス）（略：L）（記号：£, ((まれ))l；£は数字の前に, lはあとに置く）

£8.05 （＝eight pound(s) (and) five pence）
8ポンド5ペンス（▼andを省くのは((略式))）

eight pound and five
（旧制度）8ポンド5シリング；（新制度）8ポンド5ペンス

pounds, shillings, and pence
金銭.

3 ポンド(pound Scots)：昔のスコットランド通貨.

4 ポンド：アイルランド・エジプト・トルコ・キプロス・ガーナ・イスラエル・レバノン・リビア・ナイジェリア・スーダン・シリアの通貨単位.

pound of flesh

約束の厳格な履行〈Shak. Mer.V.〉.

the pound in your pocket

((英))手持ちの金, 所持金.

━━[動](他)((英))〈貨幣の〉重量を検査する.