收中英惯用短语:
| - [口]我来应征; 我接收你的[他的]挑战。 I'm his man.
- [喻]用贿赂收买 give [throw] a sop to Cerberus
- [美](对收入低于法定标准的家庭的)联邦补助 negative income tax
- [美](联帮政府把部分税收分配给州政府使用的)岁入分配 revenue sharing
- [美]欧洲式旅馆收费制(膳宿费分开算) European plan
- [美]餐厅中收拾餐具的服务员 bus boy
- [美俚]数字票赌博的收款人 number(s) runner
- [美口]忍辱, 屈服; 丢脸; 被迫收回自己说的话; 被迫认错 eat crow
- [美口]离开, 收摊, 搬家 pull up stakes
- [英]【史】收买一个市镇的议员选举权 buy a borough
- [英]公积金(从税收中集取资金以支付公债利息) consolidated fund
- [谑]兼收男女成员的俱乐部 cock-and-hen club
- [谚]事已定局, 无可挽回。(覆水难收) What's done cannot be undone.
- [谚]人人有身价(指任何人都可以被收买去干坏事, 在资本主义社会, 人成了商品, 待价而沽。) Every man has his price.
- [谚]失之东隅, 收之桑榆。 What one loses on the swings one gains on the roundabouts.
- [谚]失者不可复得; 覆水难收。 What's lost is lost.
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