| 词汇 | money-pit |
| 释义 | money pit noun[ C ] informaluk /ˈmʌn.i ˌpɪt/ us /ˈmʌn.i ˌpɪt/ something on which you keep having to spend a lot of money, especially when it may be a waste of money: 大钱坑，花钱无底洞 We don't want the project to become a money pit.我们不希望这个项目变成一个要不断投钱进去的无底洞。 Old houses can become money pits for their owners.老房子可能成为要业主不断投钱进去的无底洞。 Some people think the Olympic Games is a money pit and not worth the bother. Children are a never-ending money pit. Where others saw a money pit, he saw opportunity. Costing too much bottomless pit capital intensive cheap cheap at half the priceidiom cost an arm and a leg/a small fortuneidiom cost someone a pretty pennyidiom cost someone dearidiom costliness daylight robbery dear exorbitant gouge pretty price fixing price someone out price yourself out of the marketidiom prohibitive prohibitively prohibitory sight Examples of money pitmoney pit It is time to stop pouring money into the moneypit and to rescue what can still be rescued. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English This was the moneypit that spurred his son into digging tunnels to support it. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These scams offer only a moneypit, where no matter how much time and money is invested, consumers never achieve the riches or financial freedom that they were promised. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. During this crisis, we will not be able to afford projects which are just about prestige or those which are simply money pits. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English 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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