gravy train

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈɡreɪ.vi ˌtreɪn]
• 美式音标 [ˈɡreɪ.vi ˌtreɪn]
• 英式发音
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基本解释

• 轻易发大财之工作

同根派生

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英汉例句

双语例句

• "I understand why clients hate me,” he said. "The gravy train is over.
  “我知道客户为什么恨我，”他说，“因为他们的摇钱树已经倒掉了。
• Next month’s choices will help to determine whether the institution develops a robust life of its own, or simply becomes one more wagon in the UN gravy train.
  下月的选择会帮助法庭确定，它会发展成具有生命力的强健机体，还是只不过成为联合国清闲而又容易发财的庞大列车中的又一节车厢。
• All this has reinforced the idea that banking is simply a gravy train for employees.
  所有这一切都强化了银行只不过是为雇员提供肥缺的想法。

原声例句

• However,other people are on the gravy train.

权威例句

• All this has reinforced the idea that banking is simply a gravy train for employees.
  ECONOMIST: Bank incentives are all wrong
• The cable companies are too entrenched and making too much money to risk disrupting their gravy train.
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• Well into the twentieth century, young women married old Civil War pensioners and got on the gravy train.
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词组短语

短语

• ride the gravy train 干不费力的活
• be on a gravy train 走运

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a way of making money quickly, easily, and often dishonestly

柯林斯英英字典

• If an organization or person earns a lot of money without doing much work, you can say that they are on the gravy train.

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