Eric stole jewelry valued at 500
pounds.
埃里克偷了价值五百英镑的珠宝。
Tom is penny wise,
pound foolish.
汤姆在小事上显得自己很聪明（耍小聪明），在大事上却那么笨拙。
Lisa has a thousand
pound a year entirely at her own disposal.
丽萨每年有一千镑完全归她使用。
This would be part of a 1 billion pound flagship EV hub project with carmaker Nissan, a move to further expand its presence in Europe, as the continent ramps up production to achieve battery independence and embrace the EV boom.
British Steel was founded in 2016 after private equity company Greybull Capital purchased it for a token 1 pound from India's Tata Steel.
The pound has remained weak against the yuan since the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016, making Britain an attractive destination for Chinese investors.
It was also hit by the sinking pound and unusually hot weather that encouraged fewer Northern Europeans to travel, it adds.
However, the 900 million pound rescue deal failed, while talks with creditors and British authorities also failed to materialize.
The expansion in the university city is part of a five-year 3 billion pound investment plan for the UK that it announced alongside the British Prime Minister Theresa May in February last year.
"We have a long-term collaboration with Cambridge University," a spokesman for the Chinese company told the FT, pointing to a five-year 25 million pound co-operation and partnership with BT to fund research.
Xiaomi advertised its new handsets for just one pound ($1.30) last week in an online "flash sale" that left thousands of potential buyers disappointed when its website told them it had "sold out" soon after it had opened.
At 2.75 pounds, MacBook Air is a quarter pound lighter than the previous model, and also a bit thinner and smaller.
ForwardKeys Chief Executive Olivier Jager said the strengthening of the pound has contributed to this trend.
“US and Chinese visitors took advantage when (pound) sterling was weaker, now they’re reacting the other way as the pound recovers.
In November, Huawei and BT announced plans to create a 25 million pound research hub at Cambridge University, aiming at developing future technologies in mobile and internet infrastructure.
The first of the three reactors, the 18 billion pound ($23.82 billion) Hinkley Point C, involves a one-third investment from CGN.
The first reactor, the 18 billion pound ($23.82 billion) Hinkley Point C, involves one-third investment from CGN.
Hangzhou-based Geely acquired LEVC, formerly the London Taxi Co, in 2013 for 11 million pounds and has so far invested 325 million pounds in the business, including a 300 million pound facility in Coventry where the TX is assembled.
China General Nuclear Power Corporation, known as CGN, said on Monday it will bid to invest in a financially troubled 15 billion pound($20.35 billion) nuclear power station planned for Cumbria, in Northwest England.
Ross Barr’s revenue this year has reached 60,000 pound, with 45 percent of sales generated internationally.
In 2013, Wanda invested in One Nine Elms, an 88.8 million pound project with plans to build 437 homes across two towers in London rising to 42 and 58 storeys.
The company will roll out a branch in West London's Westfield shopping center in March, and then plans stores in Japan, France, the United States and the Middle East as part of a 600 million pound ($792.5 million) international expansion.
CGN signed an agreement on the 18 billion pound Hinkley Point C power plant with French utility EDF and the British government last September, which has been hailed as a gateway to promote Chinese nuclear technology.
Currency exchange rate is another reason that encourages Chinese investors to look at quality properties in the UK, as the pound dropped some 10 percent against the renminbi in the past two years.
The shortlist for the project, which will see the winner work with HS2 to provide services on the 55.7 billion pound ($70.8 billion) high-speed railway, includes two other groups, the Department for Transport said.
[Photo/Agencies]Chinese real estate giant Wanda closed a 470 million pound ($600 million) deal to buy a major piece of land in South London's Nine Elms area on Wednesday, the latest in a series of key Chinese investments in London property.
Wanda's investment comes as Chinese investment is pouring into London property at an unprecedented rate, fueled by the depreciation of the pound that resulted from uncertainties around the UK's decision to leave the European Union.
The two sides struck the final agreement on the 18 billion British pound project with the British government in September last year.
The top three are the US dollar, the euro and the British pound.
Every pound was worth it and then some, Ding said, as the meeting went on for around five hours, during which product samples and their functions were thoroughly understood.
SWIFT data shows that the dollar remains the most active currency for global payments, accounting for 41.1 percent of global payments in February, followed by the euro, the British pound, the Japanese yen and the renminbi.
The British pound sterling and Japanese yen were both down by 11 percent against the greenback.
Major currencies such as the euro, Japanese yen and British pound have all depreciated significantly against the US dollar, and the renminbi is no exception.
As the US Federal Reserve raised key interest rates steeply to curb runaway inflation in the second quarter, the euro, the pound and the Japanese yen all plunged against the US dollar.
Effective on Aug 1, the weight increase will allow the renminbi to continue to account for the third-largest share in the basket, behind only the US dollar and the euro but ranking higher than the Japanese yen and the British pound.
In 2016, the IMF included the yuan in its SDR basket as a fifth currency, along with the U. S. dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound.
The Chinese currency, renminbi, formally became the fifth currency in the SDR basket on Oct 1, 2016, joining the US dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen, and the British pound.
Guangdong lychee could be seen in many major supermarkets in California, with prices ranging from $4.99 to $5.99 a pound (0.45 kilogram) last year.
Prices of coffee made with arabica beans, which are used often by chains like Starbucks, hit a 10-year peak at $2.56 a pound in New York.
Copper for delivery in May, for instance, jumped by 3.7 percent to $4.1375 per pound on the Comex market in New York on Monday as traders grappled with the border closure, before retreating to about $4.08 per pound as of Thursday afternoon in Beijing, according to market tracker Investing.
Currently, taxpayers in the United Kingdom foot the bill to recycle plastic packaging but the 1 billion pound ($1.27 billion) annual price tag skyrocketed when the option to ship waste to China was taken off the table.
In 2017, the average value of US variety meat exports to China was about 76 cents per pound, according to the US Meat Export Federation, a trade association.
If processors don't sell them elsewhere for human consumption, the byproducts will be rendered in the US for about 18 cents per pound – a loss of $1.55 per hog for the volume exported to China, the federation said.
LONDON－The British automotive industry is estimated to witness a 55.4 billion pound ($73.8 billion) loss over the next five years if no trade deal is struck between Britain and the European Union, the British Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said last week.
That is part of a 620 million pound ($856 million), five-year trade and investment drive in the country, which was announced during British Prime Minister Teresa May's visit to China earlier this year.
"A diesel bus consumes around 6.36 Egyptian pounds ($0.36) per kilometer to run, while an electric bus will consume less than half a pound per km," the chairman noted.
Last month, Huawei received government approval to build a 1 billion pound ($1.26 billion) research facility in the UK.
During an industry forum held in Beijing on Aug 16, Lin Caiyi, vice-president of the China Chief Economist Forum Research Institute, said that the Chinese currency's settlement level is still lower than that of the US dollar or the British pound from a global perspective.
Included in the basket in 2016, the RMB currently accounts for the third-largest share in the SDR basket, behind the dollar and the euro but ranking higher than the Japanese yen and the British pound.
Unlike the early days following World War II, when the US dollar and the British pound sterling were the only global currencies, there are more currencies competing for bigger roles on the global stage currently, from the euro to other nontraditional reserve currencies that have a certain place of their own, thereby weakening the dollar's position to a certain extent.
In 1914, the dollar's share of the global reserve monetary system was zero, but a decade later it had soared to 70 percent, surpassing the British pound sterling for the first time.
Other major currencies have thus depreciated against the greenback, with the euro down 1.22 percent, the Japanese yen shedding 2.01 percent and the British pound sliding 1.1 percent.
Last year, due to high inflation in some major economies, the dollar index has risen to a new high in 20 years, while the euro and the pound recorded new lows.
But it was not until 1950 that the British sterling pound started to give way to the greenback, in terms of international settlements and central bank reserves.
The renminbi's share ranked fifth among all reserve currencies, following the US dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound.
Meanwhile, the dollar, the euro, the British pound and the Japanese yen ranked as the top four in terms of payment value last month, accounting for 41.1 percent, 36.43 percent, 6.58 percent and 2.98 percent in global payments, respectively, the report said.
As of the third quarter, the US dollar took up 59.79 percent in global foreign exchange reserves, the euro accounted for 19.66 percent, the Japanese yen held 5.26 percent and the British pound 4.62 percent, the IMF database showed.
The latest data showed that the renminbi is now next to the US dollar, euro, Japanese yen and pound sterling in terms of foreign exchange trades.
Besides, the renminbi has significantly appreciated against the euro, the British pound and the Japanese yen recently, making the Chinese yuan one of the stronger currencies in the world at present.
Besides, renminbi has significantly appreciated against the euro, British pound, and Japanese yen recently, making the Chinese yuan one of the stronger currencies in the world at present, said the PBOC.
Albeit the recent depreciation of renminbi against the dollar, the Chinese currency has pronouncedly appreciated against the euro, pound, and yen as one of the very few currencies that has remained strong in the world, the statement said.
But the British pound sterling touched a 37-year-low on Friday and the euro kept parity with the greenback for over two months.
After the weighting increase, the Chinese currency continues to hold the third-largest overall share within the SDR basket, behind the dollar and the euro but ahead of the Japanese yen and the British pound.
Consequently, as of Thursday, the euro, the British pound and the Japanese yen had weakened between 10 percent and 17 percent against the dollar this year.
While the exchange rate of the onshore yuan has weakened by about 6 percent against the dollar so far this year, the declines of the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound against the greenback are bigger and have stood at approximately 8 percent to 10 percent during the same period, official data showed.
With the dollar index having surged about 9 percent since the beginning of this year, major currencies such as the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound have all depreciated 8 to 10 percent against the greenback, while the yuan has depreciated just 6 percent on the domestic market, Wang said.
The updated basket implies slightly higher weights for the US dollar and the renminbi and somewhat lower weights for the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound.
The yen's fell from 8.33 percent to 7.59 percent and the British pound's weighting declined from 8.09 percent to 7.44 percent.
Renminbi's share ranked fifth among all reserve currencies, following the US dollar, euro, yen and pound, IMF's data of Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves showed.
This helped the Chinese currency to retain fourth place in the global list, behind the US dollar, the euro and the British pound.
The IMI research showed that the RMB's international usage surpassed that of the Japanese yen and the British pound sterling in the first half of last year.
Typically, central banks hold foreign exchange reserves in leading currencies such as the US dollar, the pound sterling, the euro and the Japanese yen.
Zhang predicted that the RMB, used for payments, trading and reserves, will surpass the British pound sterling and the Japanese yen in another decade, ranking third after the US dollar and the euro.
Economists at Citi estimated that the renminbi will replace the British pound as the world's third-largest payment currency by 2030, with its share increasing to about 7.9 percent.
The value of the SDR is based on a basket of five currencies: listed in order of their contribution, the US dollar, euro, Chinese yuan, Japanese yen and British pound.
About 80 percent of domestic and foreign respondents to the survey believed that the RMB's role as an international currency will not be inferior to that of the Japanese yen or the British pound in the next decade.
The currency internationalization index, which measures the share of major currencies in the international monetary market and is published by the International Monetary Institute of the Renmin University of China, indicates that the yuan is closing in on the pound sterling and the Japanese yen after a decade of the "internationalization" process, said Di Dongsheng, associate dean of the School of International Studies at the Renmin University of China.
Statistics show that the top three currencies of the US dollar, euro and British pound accounted for a respective 40.88 percent, 32.91 percent and 6.75 percent in terms of the currency payment value in May, according to SWIFT, the global financial messaging network.
"The RMB performed the best among major currencies (amid the market turmoil)", said Zhu, comparing with 6.3 percent drop of euros and 12 percent decline of pound sterling against the US dollar.
Against the stronger US dollar, the euro dropped 6.6 percent from March 10 to Thursday, and the pound sterling weakened by 12.5 percent toward its lowest level since 1985, surpassing the lows seen during the historic Brexit vote in June 2016.
At that time, the yuan became the world's third-largest international currency, surpassing the British pound and Japanese yen, the institute found.
The yuan's going-global trend picked up pace in 2016 when the IMF added the currency to its basket of the Special Drawing Right, making it the fifth major currency following the US dollar, euro, Japanese yen and British pound.
In Europe, fears about a no-deal Brexit and a growing rift over Italy's budget put pressure on the euro and the pound.
Copper gained 2.4 percent to $2.72 a pound.
The pound rose sharply following reports that Britain and the European Union had reached a deal to give UK financial services companies access to the bloc after Brexit.
The British pound rose to $1.3018 from $1.2771.
In late New York trading, the euro fell to 1.1557 dollars from 1.1647 dollars in the previous session, and the British pound decreased to 1.3129 dollars from 1.3227 US dollars in the previous session.
The British pound ranks in third place in the survey, with 11.76 percent of respondents indicating they plan to increase their sterling stocks, and 2.94 percent indicating they will decrease their stockpile.
The pound ranks in the third place in the survey, with 11.76 percent of respondents indicating they plan to increase their sterling stocks, and 2.94 percent indicating they will decrease their stockpile.
The British pound edged 0.2 percent higher at $1.3635 after having fallen to a four-month low of $1.3588 on Tuesday on soft UK manufacturing data.
A survey by Bank of China said 76 percent of respondents from 25 countries and regions believed the yuan would play a role as important as other major currencies, including the US dollar, British pound, euro and the Japanese yen.
A survey by the Bank of China said 76 percent of respondents from 25 countries and regions believed the yuan would play a role as important as other major currencies, including the US dollar, British pound, euro and Japanese yen.
In 2016, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) included the Chinese yuan into its Special Drawing Rights Baskets alongside the US dollar, British Pound, Yen and Euro.
Former prime minister David Cameron accepted a lead role with a newly proposed 750 million pound ($1 billion) China-UK fund, which gathers private-sector funding from both countries to invest into B&R projects.
A survey done by the Bank of China published on Wednesday indicated that last year, 76 percent of respondents from 3,134 overseas enterprises and 118 financial institutions in 25 countries and regions believed that the yuan will play a role as important as other major international currencies, including the US dollar, British pound, euro and Japanese yen.
In 2015, the International Monetary Fund included the yuan into the Special Drawing Rights basket, giving the currency the status of a reserve currency, following the dollar, euro, pound and yen.
In a milestone for the yuan's internationalization, the currency joined the IMF Special Drawing Right basket in October last year, making it the fifth currency in the basket, joining the US dollar, euro, Japanese yen and British pound.
"It has been exactly a year since the International Monetary Fund included the yuan in its basket of five reserve currencies, in addition to the US dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound.
On Oct 1, 2016, the RMB became the fifth currency in the basket, joining the US dollar, euro, Japanese yen and British pound.
The US dollar has a weighting of 41.73 percent in the new basket, 30.93 percent for the euro, 10.92 percent for the yuan, 8.33 percent for the Japanese yen and 8.09 percent for the British pound.
The inclusion makes the yuan one of the five reserve currencies fully endorsed by the 189-member organization, joining the US dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound.
Leverage comes by the pound and goes away by the ounce.