Treasury
['treʒ(ə)rɪ] or ['trɛʒəri]
解釋/意思:
(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.
編輯:迈尔斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Till, strong-box, money-box, money-bag.
校對:迈拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Inexperienced in government, she plunged into all manner of useless expenditure, and swamped her treasury almost in a day. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In which compensating adjustment of their noses, they were pretty much like Treasury, Bar, and Bishop, and all the rest of them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It was in the court outside the treasury that my cousin and I met, to enforce the laws of discipline on our own soldiers. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It is a lucrative source of emolument, and sometimes brings into the national treasury as much as thirty-five or forty dollars a year. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- And you, said he, when in England, have only to exhibit your accounts to the treasury, and you will be paid immediately. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- I think, moreover, that Nature was not to him that treasury of delight it was to his sisters. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- 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·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Treasury said, Juno. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Treasury moved on, and Bar came up. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Paget, as Lord of the Treasury, must remain in London, and only pay her flying visits. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Treasury said Merdle's work punished him a little. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
整理:薇尔玛