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词汇 shekel
释义 shekel
noun
uk /ˈʃek.əl/ us /ˈʃek.əl/
[ C ]
the standard unit of money used in Israel谢克尔(以色列标准货币单位)
 shekels[ plural ]slanghumorous
money: 钱
That should earn you a few shekels.
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Examples of shekel


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In addition to the large debt of the agricultural sector, (10 billion shekel) there is also the question of foreign workers.
Those thrusting terriers of private enterprise were gathering the shekels from building office blocks, hotels, shopping precincts and other lush building projects.
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We could not send our goods to every corner of the earth and rake in the shekels as we had done.
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They think of nothing but how they can rake in the shekels.
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The whisky distillers are just going to sit there raking in the shekels.
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It will go to those who just sit and rake in the shekels.
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It is all very well to dangle the carrot and offer the golden shekels to the miners to make them accept redundancy.
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Because it is all about money—it is about shekels and it is about profit.
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They are being given a carrot of golden shekels, and are told to get on their way because they are not wanted any more.
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Is there going to a great recruiting campaign to get the shekels in?
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Of the £12,500,000, £8,000,000 goec in compensation and other charges, and the other £4,500,000 goes to the people who are raking in the shekels for merely keeping the books and gathering the premiums.
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It has now abandoned the begging bowl and instead has acquired a croupier's rake and is busily shovelling in the shekels from every corner of the taxpayers' table.
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Counting the shekels does not produce wealth.
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These new and old shekels are purely a unit of currency rather than a unit of weight.
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The shekel was an ancient unit of weight and currency.
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