大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 fast buck


释义：

fast buck n. 轻易得来的钱；投机赚钱

例句：



The fast buck is in tips.

小费是来钱最快的。



Speculators eager to earn a fast buck often wind up in bankruptcy.

急于想发横财的投机者到头来往往破产。



But Golden City was supposed to represent more than just a fast buck.

但是黄金城不只是一个投机赚钱的代名词。



But some of the local JV partners, many of them without experience in life insurance, seem to have been more interested in making a fast buck.

但是，一些本地合资企业没有人寿险的经验，却只有在这个市场大捞一把的兴趣。



Of course, this comes with a bit of a caveat: the only people who can afford to forbear making a fast buck are those who've made a few fast bucks already.

当然这一成就是有一些限制的：那些可以忍受暴富的人是已经有了不少钱的人。


Some Labour backbenchers could not forgive his taste for glamorous Tory women and his desire to turn a fast buck.


"The community feels that this art work was given to it for free, and that it should be kept in Haringey where it belongs, not sold for a fast buck, " he said.


Last week, the Business Secretary Lord Mandelson warned that he would oppose any buyer that fails to "respect" the historic confectioner's traditions and was bidding purely for the sake of making a "fast buck".


It matters little if it is performance enhancing drugs to win a sporting event, inside information to put on a fast buck trade, padded Vatican contracts, or Goldman Sachs putting its own profits before those of its clients.


He earned loud cheers from delegates for attacking what he called Britain's "fast buck" culture - saying the country had to learn the lesson that "growth is built on sand if it comes from our predators and not our producers".