论文部分内容阅读
上周,我和妻子去了我们最喜砍的比萨店。吃完饭后,服务员把账单拿给我们。因没有正合适的零钱,我在脑海里很快计算出需付的小费后,给了他两张大面额的钞票,对他说:“找我5美元就可以了。”他回答道:“没问题,我会找你5块(bucks)。”他用“bucks”来称呼美元引起了我的注意。在我成长的密苏里州南部,用“bucks”来称“美元”是很常见的。然而,我在圣路易斯生活了近20年,这还是很长一段时间以来我第一次听到有人用“bucks”来称美元。这使我想知道“bucks”是怎么成为美元
Last week, my wife and I went to our favorite pizzeria. After dinner, the waiter took the bill to us. Because I did not get the right change and I quickly calculated the tip to pay in my head, I gave him two large denominations and said to him: “Look for me $ 5.” He replied: “No problem, I’ll find you five bucks.” “He used” bucks “to call the dollar caught my attention. In southern Missouri, where I grew up, it is not uncommon to use ”bucks“ to refer to ”dollars.“ However, I have lived in St. Louis for almost 20 years and for the first time in a long time I first heard someone calling it ”bucks“ for dollars. This made me wonder how ”bucks " became a dollar