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

• 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。
• Then the Royal coffers will open.
  那皇家金库的大门就向我们打开啦。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The problem began when China made hospitals self-funding in the1990s to ease a heavy burden on state coffers.
  中国自1990年代以来，为减轻国库负担，开始要求医院自行筹募资金，而问题就是在这个时候衍生开来。
• 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。