to foot the bill

基本解释

• 买单

英汉例句

双语例句

• A state whose ship was not attacked, and whose only involvement with the incident was as rescuer, might balk at being asked to foot the bill for lengthy and costly proceedings.
  船只没有被攻击过，或者只是扮演救援角色的国家，在被要求为冗长而代价不菲的诉讼程序买单时，都可能变得踌躇不决。
• Embarrassed by Sigma Olomouc's 2-5-5 record*, putting it 13th in the 16-team Czech League, team officials ordered their players to foot the bill for tickets to the next game against Sparta Prague.
  捷克球队奥洛姆克西格马最近战绩为2胜5平5负，在有16支球队参加的联赛中排名第13，备感难堪的俱乐部官员因此命令球员为下一场对布拉格斯巴达队的比赛球票买单。
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• The Sudanese government, which twice imprisoned and released him without charge, wants him gone and even offered at one point to foot the bill.
  苏丹政府曾两次对他关押又无条件释放，甚至一度主动为他支付费用，只是想让他离开这里。

原声例句

• "Finally,because of this law, the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street's mistakes.
• "I just want to have some rules in place so that when these guys make dumb decisions, you do not end up having to foot the bill.

权威例句

• Russia even got the American taxpayer to foot the bill through IMF and other loans.
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• But law firms and corporations no longer want to foot the bill for that.
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