tidy sum
基本解释
- 大筆
英汉例句
- He's put aside a tidy sum for his retirement.
他存了一筆相儅可觀的錢以備退休之用。 - That is a tidy sum in Nepal, South Asia's poorest country.
在南亞最窮的國家尼泊爾,這是一筆很大的數目。 - Many of the original holders of the bonds, weary of waiting for a deal, have sold them to others for as little as 12 cents on the dollar, so the purchasers of these bonds stand to make a tidy sum.
許多原始的債權人因爲厭煩等候償債協議,早已將持有的債券以12美分兌換一美元的低價轉賣給他人,所以這些債券的新買主很可能手上都握有相儅大筆的金額。 - They came from high-flying, high-priced studios, each promising to reinvigorate Forbes.com for the tidy sum of a million bucks or two.
FORBES: 400: How Reinvention Sprang From a Diner In Omaha and Library Full of Billionaires - Forbes - This week saw the first results of a project, costing that tidy sum, which will allow astronomers to examine the universe to their hearts' content, regardless of telescope administrators and cloudy skies.
ECONOMIST: The Sloan star survey - For a tidy sum and some untidiness, Kinect enables the kind of motion-sensing gameplay that has become the Wii's hallmark without having to strap the controller to various limbs (as with EA Active for Wii).
ENGADGET: Switched On: Token gestures