coffer
coffer 英 [ˈkɒfə(r)] 美 [ˈkɔfə(r)]
n. 围堰；保险箱；金库；资金 vt. 把…放进箱柜；用平顶镶板装饰
名词复数:coffers
- A coffer is a small safe or lockbox that's meant for keeping precious or valuable items safe. Your grandfather might keep his important papers in a coffer in his study.
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- n. 围堰；保险箱；金库；资金
- vt. 把…放进箱柜；用平顶镶板装饰
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1. A treasury of gold from his scant coffer;
但他的贫瘠却会变为金库。
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2. From this he had drawn the inference that this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel.
他从而作出结论，认为他那老相知在走进树林以后，便用他那把镐挖了一个坑，把他那箱子埋了下去，又用锹填上土，掩了那坑。
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3. A component might perform scientific calculations, collect performance data, count the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, or read the number of dollars in President Bush's campaign coffer.
组件可能实现科学计算，收集性能数据，计算1971年1月1日到现在的毫秒数，仰或是读取布什总统竞选活动保险箱里的美金数。
- coffer (n.) mid-13c., "box or chest used for keeping valuables," from Old French cofre "a chest" (12c., Modern French coffre), from Latin cophinus "basket" (see coffin). Hence coffers, in a figurative sense, "a treasury; the wealth and pecuniary resources of a person, institution, etc.," late 14c.
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