Treasury
['treʒ(ə)rɪ] or ['trɛʒəri]
解释:
(noun.) a depository (a room or building) where wealth and precious objects can be kept safely.
(noun.) the government department responsible for collecting and managing and spending public revenues.
(noun.) the British cabinet minister responsible for economic strategy.
(noun.) the funds of a government or institution or individual.
(noun.) negotiable debt obligations of the United States government which guarantees that interest and principal payments will be paid on time.
编辑:迈尔斯--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.
(n.) That department of a government which has charge of the finances.
(n.) A repository of abundance; a storehouse.
(n.) Hence, a book or work containing much valuable knowledge, wisdom, wit, or the like; a thesaurus; as, " Maunder's Treasury of Botany."
(n.) A treasure.
手打:维罗妮卡
同义词及近义词：
n. Till, strong-box, money-box, money-bag.
校对:迈拉
例句:
- Inexperienced in government, she plunged into all manner of useless expenditure, and swamped her treasury almost in a day. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- In which compensating adjustment of their noses, they were pretty much like Treasury, Bar, and Bishop, and all the rest of them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- It was in the court outside the treasury that my cousin and I met, to enforce the laws of discipline on our own soldiers. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- It is a lucrative source of emolument, and sometimes brings into the national treasury as much as thirty-five or forty dollars a year. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- And you, said he, when in England, have only to exhibit your accounts to the treasury, and you will be paid immediately. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Admiralty said Mr Merdle was a wonderful man, Treasury said he was a new power in the country, and would be able to buy up the whole House of Commons. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The crown of Charlemagne, which is preserved in the imperial treasury of Vienna, is composed of eight plates of gold, four large and four small, connected by hinges. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- I think, moreover, that Nature was not to him that treasury of delight it was to his sisters. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- It was never possessed at all by Florida or the States west of the Mississippi, all of which were purchased by the treasury of the entire nation. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Treasury said, Juno. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Treasury moved on, and Bar came up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- But now suppose we had a round sign for money, and suppose we put this sign inside the box sign, that would do for cash-box or treasury. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Paget, as Lord of the Treasury, must remain in London, and only pay her flying visits. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Sanders’ relatives came to the aid of the Bell Company, and put money into its treasury, and soon Hubbard was leasing out telephones at the rate of a thousand a month. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Treasury said Merdle's work punished him a little. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
整理:薇尔玛