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gravy train

财富列车,征税列车,财富的列车,财富火车

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Slang.

    • : a position in which a person or group receives excessive and unjustified money or advantages with little or no effort: The top executives were on the gravy train with their huge bonuses.

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Examples

  • From there we took the train to Nice, France, but the French border control caught us and sent us back to Italy.

  • The U.S. military is finally starting to train Iraqi troops to fight ISIS in restive Anbar province.

  • Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.

  • The U.S. only plans to train roughly 3,000 Iraqi troops in the first year.

  • “We met the smuggler in the train station; he came to speak with us about the services he provided,” Yazbek says.

  • It was only the engine drawing the train of cars up to the station to take the passengers away.

  • He went careering forward to his point, overturning and wounding; but as he speeded on, he left a train of enemies behind.

  • The fire along the three miles front is like the rumble of an express train running over fog signals.

  • We were about nine hours of fair daylight traversing 160 miles of level or descending grade, with a light passenger train.

  • There were only seventeen stations on the whole line, over which the first passenger train ran on Sept. 17.