Exchequer
[ɪks'tʃekə;eks-] or [ɪks'tʃɛkɚ]
解释:
(n.) One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table.
(n.) The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low.
(v. t.) To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.
校对:玛拉
解释:
n. a superior court which had formerly to do only with the revenue but now also with common law so named from the chequered cloth which formerly covered the table and on which the accounts were reckoned.—v.t. to proceed against a person in the Court of Exchequer.—Exchequer bill bill issued at the Exchequer under the authority of acts of parliament as security for money advanced to the government.—Chancellor of the Exchequer (see Chancellor); Court of Exchequer originally a revenue court became a division of the High Court of Justice in 1875 and is now merged in the Queen's Bench Division.
整理:莱缪尔
例句:
- My aunt, looking very like an immovable Chancellor of the Exchequer, would occasionally throw in an interruption or two, as 'Hear! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- In pursuance of the same act, the bank cancelled exchequer bills to the amount of ? 1,775,027: 17s: 10?d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Without it, I could never have gone to that Exchequer Coffee House, or taken Mrs Wilfer's lodgings. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- It was said of Gladstone that he was the greatest Chancellor of the Exchequer England ever saw, but that as a retail merchant he would soon have ruined himself by his bookkeeping. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- This money, however, was for a long time, received at the exchequer, by weight, and not by tale. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Because he hates to be idle; though what he earns doesn't add much to our exchequer. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- If I could do so with cuffs, said the King, my creditors should have little reason to complain of an empty exchequer. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
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