Worthiness: you spend just a nickel when having a shit in a charged toilet of a tourist resort.
值得：在旅游景点的公厕大便时花了五毛钱。As you negotiate a settlement, every dollar of legal costs incurred likely means 50 cents out of your pocket.
在协商离婚协议的时候，每一块钱的法律成本可能都意味着你要从自己的腰包中掏出五毛钱。" Xiaoqing touched the hands of a small corner of the money, and think: " This money could only fifty cents, how to do it ?
小青碰了碰手中少角的钱，想：“这张钱只能当五毛钱，怎么办呢？”He had given a quick glance up and down the street and then had slipped inside and bought the book for two dollars fifty.
他迅速朝街道两头一瞥，猛地溜进铺里，花两块五毛钱买下了它。You always look phone numbers up in the phone book, since calling information costs 50cents.
你总是在电话簿里找电话号码，因为咨询话费要五毛钱。Then you caught sight of an old man sitting in a grass hut selling watermelons, and gritting your teeth you pulled out fifty fen to buy one.
后来你在一个山梁上看见一个老汉在毛棚下卖西瓜，你咬咬牙掏出五毛钱买了一个。You always look phone numbers up in the phone book, since calling information costs 50 cents.
你总是在电话本上查电话，因为打信息咨询电话得花五毛钱。Years ago, a poor Dutch immigrant boy washed the windows of a bakery shop after school to help support his family.
多年前，有个荷兰籍的小男孩，在学校下课后，替一家面包店擦窗，每星期赚五毛钱。He tipped the waiter a quarter, and spent fifty cents for a package of Egyptian cigarettes.
他给了传者一个两毛五的硬币，又花了五毛钱买了一包埃及香烟。