coffers

英 [ˈkɒfəz]

美 [ˈkɑfərz]

n.  (旧时的)保险柜，贵重物品箱; (政府、机构等的)金库，资金
coffer的复数

柯林斯词典

• 贵重物品箱;保险箱
  Acofferis a large strong chest used for storing valuable objects such as money or gold and silver.
• N-PLURAL 财源;金库;资金
  Thecoffers ofan organization consist of the money that it has to spend, imagined as being collected together in one place.
  1. The proceeds from the lottery go towards sports and recreation, as well as swelling the coffers of the government...
     彩票收入用于发展体育和娱乐产业，同时还用来充实国库。
  2. Large public and private companies have long been contributors to Tory party coffers.
     长期以来，大型的上市公司和私营企业一直在为保守党捐助资金。

双语例句

• State coffers are almost empty, with foreign exchange reserves down to one month of import cover.
  国库接近空虚，外汇储备下降至只够覆盖1个月的进口。
• Migrants also have complained that widespread corruption has diverted state money meant for them to local government coffers.
  移民还抱怨说，普遍存在的腐败现象让国家拨出的本应属于他们的安置费进入了当地政府的腰包。
• They point out strong corporate balance sheets and fat coffers of central banks.
  他们提到了亚洲企业强劲的资产负债表以及主要央行的雄厚实力。
• Domestic banks will no doubt roll over the small amounts of short-term treasury bills maturing in coming months. The victims of Athens 'empty coffers will be not bond markets but Greek public sector employees or benefit claimants.
  希腊国内银行无疑将对未来几个月内到期的短期国债进行展期。因此，希腊国库空虚的受害者将不会是债市，而是希腊公共部门的员工，或者领取社会福利的人。
• Considerable sums of money change hands here and generally end up in Macau's state coffers.
  大宗的金钱在这儿易手，通常最后进入澳门政府的钱柜。
• The nation's coffers are empty.
  国库亏空。
• The government's coffers are almost empty.
  政府的金库几乎空了。
• The problem began when China made hospitals self-funding in the1990s to ease a heavy burden on state coffers.
  中国自1990年代以来，为减轻国库负担，开始要求医院自行筹募资金，而问题就是在这个时候衍生开来。
• However, insiders have confirmed that the unspent assets were found this month in Libyan state coffers.
  然而内部人士确认，这些未花掉的财富是本月在利比亚国库中发现的。
• There's nothing left in the government's coffers.
  国库已空无一物了。