| 词汇 | lucre |
| 释义 | lucre noun[ U ] old-fashioned disapproving or humorousuk /ˈluː.kər/ us /ˈluː.kɚ/ money or profit: 金钱；利润 filthy lucre不义之财 Informal words for money boodle bread buck cheddar defence fund G, g gee grand K, k lolly monies pickings shekel spondulicks tanner tenpenny thou ton wonga your daily breadidiom Examples of lucrelucre These attacks were, according to the planters, motivated 'merely for the lucre'. Choirs operate much more easily in a financial sense - so, sorry to talk about filthy lucre, but that can sometimes be a consideration. A man could do without landed status if he had money; indeed, he could wash the filthy lucre, thus purging (or at least effectively disguising) its egalitarian taint. I am going on to a slightly more mundane theme and raising the subject of filthy lucre. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have no doubt that they did not desire to associate filthy lucre with the establishment of this particular type of school. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a great temptation to leave the farm and grab the lucre. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So it seems to me that there is no problem there of anybody being coerced by love of filthy lucre. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is "filthy lucre" that we want really. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Men are not coming forward, as they have done for the last three weeks, for lucre. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The answer is that we come back again to filthy lucre. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It has always been on a filthy lucre basis instead of being on the basis of an appeal to good feelings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I look upon that as a lucre phantasm. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They tried to pretend that while they were concerned with the quality of education, all that the teachers were interested in was filthy lucre. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do they despise filthy lucre? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not about filthy lucre. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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