The ancestor of the modern bicycle was called a penny-farthing.

现代自行车的原型称作penny-farthing（一种前轮大后轮小的自行车）。

The pickpockets had stripped him of his last farthing.

扒手把他最后一分钱都偷走了。

Nobody had bought anything of her the whole livelong day; no one had given her a single farthing.

整整一天谁也没有向她买过一件东西；没有人给她一个铜板。

Not a brass farthing.

我毫不在乎。

This old clock is not worth a farthing.

这个旧钟一文钱不值。