a boodle of + plural noun
表示‘一群、一伙’,常指人群或物品。
A boodle of protesters gathered outside the building.
一群抗议者聚集在大楼外。
钱;不义之财
一种赌博纸牌游戏;非正式用语,指钱;一种赌博纸牌游戏:将筹码放置在(另一副牌中的)不同花色的A、K、Q、J上;玩家出最小的同花色牌,再依次出更大的牌直至序列停止;出牌与牌面相同者赢得该牌上的所有筹码;一群;一组
非正式用语,指钱
informal terms for money
一种赌博纸牌游戏:将筹码放置在(另一副牌中的)不同花色的A、K、Q、J上;玩家出最小的同花色牌,再依次出更大的牌直至序列停止;出牌与牌面相同者赢得该牌上的所有筹码
a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
He made a lot of boodle from his successful business.
他通过成功的生意赚了很多钱。
用法提示:这里的 boodle 是俚语,指钱。
The corrupt official was caught accepting boodle from contractors.
那位腐败官员被抓住收受承包商的贿赂。
用法提示:这里的 boodle 指贿赂品。
After the bank heist, the robbers split the boodle among themselves.
银行抢劫后,劫匪们瓜分了赃物。
用法提示:这里的 boodle 指赃物。
表示‘一群、一伙’,常指人群或物品。
A boodle of protesters gathered outside the building.
一群抗议者聚集在大楼外。
指全部钱款或财物,常用于非正式场合。
After the heist, they divided the whole boodle.
抢劫后,他们分掉了全部赃物。
boodle 在此为不可数名词,意为‘钱’。
He made lots of boodle in that deal.
他在那笔交易中赚了很多钱。
grammar · medium
易错句子He made a boodle from the deal.
正确表达He made boodle from the deal.
boodle 在表示‘钱’时为不可数名词,不应用不定冠词 'a'。
grammar · medium
易错句子He boodled the official to get the contract.
正确表达He offered a boodle to the official to get the contract.
boodle 是名词,不能用作动词表示‘贿赂’,应使用动词短语如 'offer a boodle'。
booty主要指战争或抢劫中获取的掠夺物,强调非法获取;boodle侧重指金钱形式的贿赂或赃款。
bundle作为‘一大笔钱’时与boodle同义,但bundle更常见于词组make a bundle,且bundle原义为捆束,boodle仅为俚语。
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