| EXAMPLE SENTENCES | ||
|---|---|---|
目前这些股票一文不值。 At the moment these shares are worth zilch. | ||
我看仙水一文不值。 I wouldn't give a dern for spunk-water. | ||
她受骗买了条一文不值的项链。 She had been hoodwinked into buying a worthless necklace. | ||
如果人们可以收买警察，法律体系就会变得一文不值。 If people can bribe police officers, it makes a complete nonsense of the legal system. | ||
再说，在这么大规模的危机中，承诺有时一文不值。 Then again, in crises of this magnitude, promises sometimes get broken. | ||
有的东西今天似乎一文不值，但有朝一日也许就会身价百倍。 Accumulate enough and you will get successful. Something looks worthy nothing today, but it's price may rise up hundred of times one day. | ||
有的东西今天似乎一文不值，但有朝一日就会觉得它身价百倍。 Some things that today seem worthless, but someday it will find it worth a hundred times. | ||
旁白：盟国刊行了新的通货——德国马克——以取代已经一文不值的旧通货。 NARRATOR: the Allies introduced a new currency, the Deutsche Mark, to replace the worthless German money. | ||
财主和拉撒路的比喻则教导我们财产是如何变得一文不值的。 The parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus taught how possessions were not to be used. | ||
他的荣华突然变得一文不值了，似乎像腐烂的破布一样从他身上脱落。 His grandeurs were stricken valueless: they seemed to fall away from him like rotten rags. | ||
