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小词详解 | outlay
outlay 英 [ˈaʊtleɪ] 美 [ˈaʊtleɪ]
Even if Ford’s money increased the chances of reform by only 1%, that represents a 12,000-fold return on its investment (ignoring the lag between outlay and the reforms).
即使福特基金会的资助仅令发起改革的可能性提高了1%,它的投资回报高达1.2万倍(忽略资金支出和改革之间的时间差)。
——《经济学人》Every year as our leases near the end of their terms, we wait anxiously to find out what next year’s outlay will look like.
每年房屋租约快到期的时候,我们都急不可耐地想要知道下一年度的房租价格。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 启动新项目所需要花费的资金
Friends laid out the body.
朋友们为他入殓。
The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.
最小的费用,并不常得到最大的利益。
expenditure: the act of spending or using money; an amount of money spent outgoings: the amount of money that a person or a business has to spend regularly, for example every month disbursement: the payment of money from a fund