【随便聊】谈钱不伤感情
很多钱,只能想到“a lot of money”吗?
今天我们来聊聊其他关于钱的表达。
affluent/well-off
She is from an affluent/well-off family.
wealthy
I heard that she has a wealthy uncle.
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Nice place. You guys must be loaded.
How did you make the money?
房子不错啊!你们肯定富得流油啊。哪儿弄来的钱?
loaded的意思是,富得流油。
一种非正式的用法。
还有一个词filthy rich,
也是富得流油:
They're filthy rich.
这些人都太特么有钱了。
近几年又兴起了一个说法:
the one percent 财富塔顶端的那1%
It's easy to get by in society
when you're part of the one percent.
赚很多钱怎么说?
“make a lot of money”?
学几个其他说法吧!
make a mint/fortune 赚大钱
She made a mint on the stock exchange last year.
line one's pockets
(尤其指通过占便宜或欺诈而)中饱私囊,发财
- staff at the bank have apparently been lining their pockets with money from investors' accounts.
- This new contract is going to line our pockets for
years.
最后,大家知道那句著名的“有钱能使鬼推磨”,在英语里要怎么表达吗?非常简单!“Money talks!”
A: I don’t know how he got into that university. He’s not that excellent.
B: Didn’t you know? His dad’s a millionaire. He paid for the new library. Money talks.
等你很久啦!快来加入吧!
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