中文翻译与英英解释 | n.
1.〔美俚〕大笔现款〔尤指政治上的贿赂〕。
2.不法利益；赃品；伪钞。
3.一群人，一套[一堆]东西。
短语和例子
the whole (kit and) boodle 全部，全套。
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| 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
同义词：Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, stops,
| | informal terms for money
同义词：bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum,
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| Boodle, or boodler, was a bar-room or street term for money or booty applied by the yellow press (in 1884-1886) to members of the New York Board of Aldermen who were charged with accepting bribes in connection with the granting of a franchise for a street railroad on Broadway. Thereafter, the term came into common use to signify bribery in general and particularly in municipal governments. |
例句与用法 | 1. | Sarah : ‘ we are always far too full on christmas day to eat traditional pudding so we opt for something lighter , either syllabub or boodle ' s fool
马修： “我们家过圣诞节挺传统的，一般是烤火鸡，当然有时也会做烤鸭或是烤鹅，而且我们还会装饰屋子和圣诞树。
| | 2. | Although unusual in the dublin area , he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be about waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper , famished loiterers of the thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moments notice , your money or your life , leaving you there to point a moral , gagged and garotted
尽管这在都柏林区是罕见的，然而还会有缺衣少食的亡命之徒埋伏在荒郊僻野处，把手枪顶在安分守已的路人头部加以威胁。他们可能像泰晤士河堤岸上那些饥饿的穷流浪汉似的到处荡来荡去，对你进行突然袭击，逼你交出钱来，否则就要你的命。把你抢个精光之后，还往你嘴里塞上东西，脖子用绳索勒起，把你丢在那儿，以便警告旁人，他们就逃之夭夭。
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