To one who, at past sixty years old, is still passionately seeking education, these small, or large, annoyances had no great value except as measures of mass and motion.
Beans are a popular farm crop. But beans are used to describe something of very little value in the expression " not worth a hill of beans." The expression is often used today.
大豆是一种常见的农物,但在not worth a hill of beans这个成语中,bean这个词用来描述有什么价值的东西,这个表达到今天还在用。
The notes, however, were really worth nothing. The wartime Congress had no money. People who got them lost hope of ever getting repaid. So they sold them to anyone willing to pay even part of the value.