Coffer
['kɒfə] or ['kɔfɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a chest especially for storing valuables.
(noun.) an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome.
克劳斯編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables.
(n.) Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.
(n.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.
(n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.
(n.) The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.
(v. t.) To put into a coffer.
(v. t.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.
(v. t.) To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.
贝丝編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Money-chest, strong-box, safe.[2]. [Arch.] Sunken panel.
杜安整理
解釋/意思:
n. a chest for holding money or treasure: (pl.) the whole wealth of a person: a deep panel in a ceiling.—v.t. to hoard up.—n. Coff′erdam a water-tight structure used in engineering for excluding the water from the foundations of bridges quay walls &c. so as to allow of their being built dry.—adj. Coff′ered.
整理:拉尔夫
例句/造句/用法:
- Such payments, therefore, only put into one coffer what had the moment before been taken out of another. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- While it remained in the coffers of the bank, its superiority was known and ascertained. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Over and above all this, it could not be brought from those coffers, as will appear by and by, without previously paying for the keeping. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Those agents were not always able to replenish the coffers of their employers so fast as they were emptied. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Bishop said he was glad to think that this wealth flowed into the coffers of a gentleman who accepted it with meekness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Little or no expense can ever be necessary for replenishing the coffers of such a bank. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Its coffers having been filled so very ill, it is said to have been driven to this resource within a very few months after it began to do business. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- She is grateful to the artists that bring to her this high credit and fill her coffers with foreign money, and so she encourages them with pensions. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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