1 N-UNCOUNT 钱;金钱 Money is the coins or bank notes that you use to buy things, or the sum that you have in a bank account. 钱;金钱
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A lot of the money that you pay at the cinema goes back to the film distributors.
你在电影院消费的一大部分钱都会回到电影发行商手里。
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Players should be allowed to earn money from advertising.
应该允许运动员拍广告挣钱。
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She probably had more money but she didn't spend it.
她或许有更多的钱,但是她没花过。
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...discounts and money saving offers.
折扣及省钱的特价品
SYN cash, funds, capital, currency
2 N-PLURAL 款项;钱款 Monies is used to refer to several separate sums of money that form part of a larger amount that is received or spent. 款项;钱款 [formal]
3 See also: blood money pocket money
4 PHRASE 有花不完的钱;钱多得烫手;钱多得烧包 If you say that someone has money to burn, you mean that they have more money than they need or that they spend their money on things that you think are unnecessary. 有花不完的钱;钱多得烫手;钱多得烧包
5 PHRASE 非常有钱的;手头宽裕的 If you are in the money, you have a lot of money to spend. 非常有钱的;手头宽裕的 [informal]
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If you are one of the lucky callers chosen to play, you could be in the money.
如果你有幸成为其中一个被选中参加表演的来电者,就可能会赚大钱。
SYN rich, wealthy, prosperous, affluent
6 PHRASE 挣钱;赚钱 If you make money, you obtain money by earning it or by making a profit. 挣钱;赚钱
7 PHRASE 用行动证明自己的话;说到做到;说给钱就给钱 If you say that you want someone to put their money where their mouth is, you want them to spend money to improve a bad situation, instead of just talking about improving it. 用行动证明自己的话;说到做到;说给钱就给钱
8 PHRASE (因掌握内情而下的)高明赌注 If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen. (因掌握内情而下的)高明赌注 [journalism]
9 PHRASE 金钱万能;有钱能使鬼推磨 If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power. 金钱万能;有钱能使鬼推磨
10 PHRASE 白白扔钱;花冤枉钱 If you say that someone is throwing money at a problem, you are critical of them for trying to improve it by spending money on it, instead of doing more thoughtful and practical things to improve it. 白白扔钱;花冤枉钱 [disapproval]
11 PHRASE 花钱填无底洞;继续砸钱 If you say that someone is throwing good money after bad, you are critical of them for trying to improve a bad situation by spending more money on it, instead of doing more thoughtful or practical things to improve it. 花钱填无底洞;继续砸钱 [disapproval] [disapproval]
12 PHRASE 钱花得值;物有所值;没白忙活 If you get your money's worth, you get something which is worth the money that it costs or the effort you have put in. 钱花得值;物有所值;没白忙活
13 to see the colour of someone's money→see: colour a licence to print money→see: licence to be rolling in money→see: rolling money for old rope→see: rope to give someone a run for their money→see: run
Quotations
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand Aphra Behn The Lucky Chance
When a fellow says, it hain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money Kin Hubbard Hoss Sense and Nonsense
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness D.H. Lawrence
The almighty dollar is the only object of worship Philadelphia Public Ledger
Wine maketh merry, but money answereth all things Bible: Ecclesiastes
Money is coined liberty Fyodor Dostoevsky House of the Dead
Money is the sinews of love, as of war George Farquhar Love and a Bottle
Better authentic mammon than a bogus god Louis MacNiece Autumn Journal
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five W. Somerset Maugham Of Human Bondage
My boy ... always try to rub up against money, for if you rub up against money long enough, some of it may rub off on you Damon Runyon A Very Honorable Guy
but it is pretty to see what money will do Samuel Pepys Diary
If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man J. Paul Getty
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million Arnold Schwarzenegger
Money doesn't talk, it swears Bob Dylan It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread Francis Bacon Of Seditions and Troubles
Money ... is none of the wheels of trade: it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy David Hume Essays: Moral and Political
Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy Spike Milligan Puckoon
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