picul

基本解释

Last year they bought unhusked rice from the peasants in Wanan and Taiho Counties at fifty cents a picul and sold it in Kanchow for four yuan, making a sevenfold profit.
去年萬安、泰和兩縣的辳民五角錢一擔穀賣給商人，而商人運到贛州賣四塊錢一擔，賺去了七倍。
In 1868, the market value of raw silk was 517 tael of silver per picul, by 1875, the price had fallen to 285 tael per picul.
1868年，生絲每擔市值白銀517兩，到1875年，每擔價格已下跌至285兩。
Last year they bought unhusked rice from the peasants in Wanan and Taiho Counties at fifty cents a picul and sold it in Kanchow for four yuan,making a sevenfold profit.
去年萬安、泰和兩縣的辳民五角錢一擔穀賣給商人，而商人運到贛州賣四塊錢一擔，賺去了七倍。
In 1875, the market price of raw silk was just 285 liang silver per picul, which was down from 517 liang in 1868. 8 years later, it even slumped to 200 liang.
1868年，生絲每擔市值白銀517兩，到1875年，每擔價格已下跌至285兩。
One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single picul of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store.
德伐日先生把食品和帶來的燈放到鞋匠長凳上（閣樓裡除了一張草薦牀之外別無他物），他跟羅瑞先生弄醒了囚徒，扶他站起身來。