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

• 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。
• While my coffers were being depleted slowly but surely.
  而我的保险箱却在慢慢的变空。
• 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 government's coffers are almost empty.
  政府的金库几乎空了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• However, insiders have confirmed that the unspent assets were found this month in Libyan state coffers.
  然而内部人士确认，这些未花掉的财富是本月在利比亚国库中发现的。
• 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。