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

• While my coffers were being depleted slowly but surely.
  而我的保险箱却在慢慢的变空。
• 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。
• Yesterday, twitter garnered far less money than if its goal were to maximize cash in its coffers.
  如果Twitter本来的目标是最大限度筹措资金，那昨天它距离这个目标可谓相距甚远。
• 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。
• 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。
• There's nothing left in the government's coffers.
  国库已空无一物了。
• When he left, the IOC's coffers were bulging from billions of dollars in commercial revenues, the boycott era was over, and the games were entrenched as the world's favorite sports festival.
  当他卸任的时候，国际奥委会有了数十亿美元的商业化收入，抵制时代终结了，奥运会成了全世界的体育盛会。
• We did not know where our coffers were, but now we do, he said, referring to oil and gas.
  我们以前不知道我们的财源在哪里，现在我们知道了，他表示，他指的是石油和天然气。
• You may have tangible wealth untold; Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
  也许你有数不尽的财产；几匣子珠宝，几箱子金子。
• This spending spree is being driven by the rising oil price and growing foreign exchange reserves, which have swelled the coffers of investment funds in the Middle East and China.
  油价不断上涨和外汇储备日益上升，使得中东及中国投资基金的钱包越来越鼓，从而驱动了此轮投资热潮。