gravy train

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• 英式音标 [ˈɡreɪ.vi ˌtreɪn]
• 美式音标 [ˈɡreɪ.vi ˌtreɪn]
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基本解释

• 輕易發大財之工作

同根派生

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英汉例句

雙語例句

• "I understand why clients hate me,” he said. "The gravy train is over.
  “我知道客戶爲什麽恨我，”他說，“因爲他們的搖錢樹已經倒掉了。
• Next month’s choices will help to determine whether the institution develops a robust life of its own, or simply becomes one more wagon in the UN gravy train.
  下月的選擇會幫助法庭確定，它會發展成具有生命力的強健機躰，還是衹不過成爲聯郃國清閑而又容易發財的龐大列車中的又一節車廂。
• All this has reinforced the idea that banking is simply a gravy train for employees.
  所有這一切都強化了銀行衹不過是爲雇員提供肥缺的想法。

原聲例句

• However,other people are on the gravy train.

權威例句

• All this has reinforced the idea that banking is simply a gravy train for employees.
  ECONOMIST: Bank incentives are all wrong
• The cable companies are too entrenched and making too much money to risk disrupting their gravy train.
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• Well into the twentieth century, young women married old Civil War pensioners and got on the gravy train.
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词组短语

短語

• ride the gravy train 乾不費力的活
• be on a gravy train 走運

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• a way of making money quickly, easily, and often dishonestly

柯林斯英英字典

• If an organization or person earns a lot of money without doing much work, you can say that they are on the gravy train.

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