coffers

英 [ˈkɒfəz]

美 [ˈkɑfərz]

n.  (旧时的)保险柜，贵重物品箱; (政府、机构等的)金库，资金
coffer的复数

柯林斯词典

• 贵重物品箱;保险箱
  Acofferis a large strong chest used for storing valuable objects such as money or gold and silver.
• N-PLURAL 财源;金库;资金
  Thecoffers ofan organization consist of the money that it has to spend, imagined as being collected together in one place.
  1. The proceeds from the lottery go towards sports and recreation, as well as swelling the coffers of the government...
     彩票收入用于发展体育和娱乐产业，同时还用来充实国库。
  2. Large public and private companies have long been contributors to Tory party coffers.
     长期以来，大型的上市公司和私营企业一直在为保守党捐助资金。

双语例句

• In most cases, these organisations are still building the human infrastructure to handle their bulging coffers.
  在多数情况下，这些机构仍在构建人力基础设施，以处理它们不断膨胀的资金。
• Migrants also have complained that widespread corruption has diverted state money meant for them to local government coffers.
  移民还抱怨说，普遍存在的腐败现象让国家拨出的本应属于他们的安置费进入了当地政府的腰包。
• A gambling tax in Hong Kong contributes significantly to government coffers.
  在香港，博彩税为库房带来大量收益。
• Considerable sums of money change hands here and generally end up in Macau's state coffers.
  大宗的金钱在这儿易手，通常最后进入澳门政府的钱柜。
• And though his work may be sporadic and informal, it can swell the family coffers.
  尽管他的工作看起来是零星分散和不正式的，这也可以帮助充实家庭小金库。
• Saleh and his relatives plundered the public coffers during the last three decades of his abuse of power.
  萨利赫和他的家族在这三十年中攫取公共资源，滥用权力。
• State coffers are almost empty, with foreign exchange reserves down to one month of import cover.
  国库接近空虚，外汇储备下降至只够覆盖1个月的进口。
• While my coffers were being depleted slowly but surely.
  而我的保险箱却在慢慢的变空。
• Domestic banks will no doubt roll over the small amounts of short-term treasury bills maturing in coming months. The victims of Athens 'empty coffers will be not bond markets but Greek public sector employees or benefit claimants.
  希腊国内银行无疑将对未来几个月内到期的短期国债进行展期。因此，希腊国库空虚的受害者将不会是债市，而是希腊公共部门的员工，或者领取社会福利的人。
• She added to the firm's coffers by bringing in new clients.
  此外，她还招揽了一些新客户，给公司增加了收入。