a coin and unit of money worth 1% of the main unit of money in many countries, for example of the US dollar or of the euro 分（辅币单位，相当于许多国家主币面值的 1%，如美元或欧元的 1%）；分币 A one-minute phone call to the UK cost 10 cents. 打一分钟电话到英国要10美分。 The price of diesel was increased by 17 cents per litre. 柴油价格每升上涨了17美分。 The $300 he'd spent on a ticket was worth every cent. 他花在一张票上的300美元一文不值。
Homophones cent | scent | sentcent scent sentTopics Moneya1- cent noun
Not one cent of their profits goes to charity. 他们的利润没有一分捐给慈善机构。
- scent noun
The delicious scent of freshly baked bread floated to his window. 新鲜出炉的面包的香味飘到了他的窗前。
- sent noun (past tense, past participle of send)
I sent her a thank you letter. 我给她寄了一封感谢信。
Extra ExamplesDirectors recommended a dividend of 60 cents per share. 董事们建议每股分红60美分。 Subscribers pay 99 cents a song. 订户支付99美分一首歌。 The company offered its creditors 30 cents on the dollar (= 30 cents for every dollar it owed them). 该公司向债权人提供每美元30美分的利息。
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘a hundred’): from French cent, Italian cento, or Latin centum ‘hundred’.
Idioms
put in your two cents’ worth (North American English)
(British English put in your two pennyworth, put in your two penn’orth)
- (informal)
to give your opinion about something, even if other people do not want to hear it 发表意见（即使别人不想听）