coffer

英 [ˈkɒfə(r)]

美 [ˈkɔːfər]

n.  (旧时的)保险柜，贵重物品箱; (政府、机构等的)金库，资金

复数：coffers　现在分词：coffering　

GREIELTS

Collins.1 / BNC.14168 / COCA.13651

牛津词典

noun

• （旧时的）保险柜，贵重物品箱
  a large strong box, used in the past for storing money or valuable objects
• （政府、机构等的）金库，资金
  a way of referring to the money that a government, an organization, etc. has available to spend
  1. The nation's coffers are empty.
     国库空虚。

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。

英英释义

noun

• a chest especially for storing valuables
• an ornamental sunken panel in a ceiling or dome
  Synonym:caissonlacuna

双语例句

• Airports, now the travel centres of the USA, are comfortable, hospitable places, with coffer shops, bars and spotlessly clean restrooms.
  机场作为美国旅行的中枢，配备了购物，酒巴和无污染休息室，即舒适又周到。
• Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel and pick.
  两三个钟头过后，蒲辣秃柳儿看见他那老相知又从树丛里出来，可是他现在掮的不是那只小箱，而是一把镐和一把锹。
• Craftwork for Installation of 3000t coffer of intake water of Xiamen gas-fired power plant
  厦门燃气电厂取水口工程3000T沉箱安装工艺
• From this he had drawn the inference that this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel.
  他从而作出结论，认为他那老相知在走进树林以后，便用他那把镐挖了一个坑，把他那箱子埋了下去，又用锹填上土，掩了那坑。
• Three compartments divided the coffer.
  那只钱柜分成了三格。
• Once the coffer is judged to be stolen, it send location information to complete alarming.
  对移动式保险箱加入可追踪功能后，大大提高了保险箱的安全性，一旦保险箱判断被盗，则立即发送位置信息做出报警动作。
• Study on Dynamic Properties of Dumbbell-Shaped Steel Coffer Used for Pile Cap of Ultra Large Bridge's Main Pier
  特大型桥梁主墩承台哑铃状钢套箱的动力性能研究
• Using the vibration shaking grouting technique, combining the coffer of the water inlet in Shangdu power plant of Inner Mongolia, has efficiently resolved the problem of the bad gradation backfill and given the concrete treatment process.
  结合内蒙古上都电厂进水口围堰工程实际情况，采用振孔摆喷灌浆技术，有效地解决了围堰回填料级配不良的问题，并给出了具体的处理方法。
• Now, the coffer was too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money.
  况且那箱子太小，装不了一个死人，那么它装的一定是钱了。
• The swell's data observed in the actual coffer dam demolition blasting have also confirmed the accuracy of model experiment achievement.
  实际围堰爆破时的涌浪观测资料也验证了模型试验成果的正确性。