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N-UNCOUNT
钱;金钱
Money is the coins or bank notes that you use to buy things, or the sum that you have in a bank account.
例句
A lot of the money that you pay at the cinema goes back to the film distributors...
你在电影院消费的一大部分钱都会回到电影发行商手里。
Players should be allowed to earn money from advertising...
应该允许运动员拍广告挣钱。
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N-PLURAL
款项;钱款
Monies is used to refer to several separate sums of money that form part of a larger amount that is received or spent.
例句
We drew up a schedule of payments for the rest of the monies owed.
我们起草了一份剩余欠款的还款计划。
...the investment and management of monies by pension funds.
养老基金对资金的投资与管理
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PHRASE
有花不完的钱;钱多得烫手;钱多得烧包
If you say that someone has money to burn, you mean that they have more money than they need or that they spend their money on things that you think are unnecessary.
例句
He was a high-earning broker with money to burn.
他是高收入的经纪人，有花不完的钱。
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PHRASE
非常有钱的;手头宽裕的
If you are in the money, you have a lot of money to spend.
例句
If you are one of the lucky callers chosen to play, you could be in the money.
如果你有幸成为其中一个被选中参加表演的来电者，就可能会赚大钱。
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PHRASE
挣钱;赚钱
If you make money, you obtain money by earning it or by making a profit.
例句
They couldn't find work or make money in the cities.
他们在城市找不到工作，也赚不到钱。
...the only bit of the firm that consistently made money.
公司唯一一直赚钱的一小块业务
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PHRASE
用行动证明自己的话；说到做到;说给钱就给钱
If you say that you want someone to put their money where their mouth is, you want them to spend money to improve a bad situation, instead of just talking about improving it.
例句
The government might be obliged to put its money where its mouth is to prove its commitment.
政府也许会被迫付出行动，以兑现承诺。
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PHRASE
(因掌握内情而下的)高明赌注
If you say that the smart money is on a particular person or thing, you mean that people who know a lot about it think that this person will be successful, or this thing will happen.
例句
With England not playing, the smart money was on the Germans...
英格兰队没有参赛，所以人们看好德国队应该会赢。
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PHRASE
金钱万能;有钱能使鬼推磨
If you say that money talks, you mean that if someone has a lot of money, they also have a lot of power.
例句
The formula in Hollywood is simple—money talks.
好莱坞的生存规则很简单，就是金钱万能。
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PHRASE
白白扔钱;花冤枉钱
If you say that someone is throwing money at a problem, you are critical of them for trying to improve it by spending money on it, instead of doing more thoughtful and practical things to improve it.
例句
The Australian government's answer to the problem has been to throw money at it.
澳大利亚政府对这个问题的解决方案一直就是大把往里扔钱。
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PHRASE
花钱填无底洞;继续砸钱
If you say that someone is throwing good money after bad, you are critical of them for trying to improve a bad situation by spending more money on it, instead of doing more thoughtful or practical things to improve it.
例句
Further heavy intervention would be throwing good money after bad.
进一步加大干预的力度只会是继续白扔钱。
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PHRASE
钱花得值;物有所值；没白忙活
If you get your money's worth, you get something which is worth the money that it costs or the effort you have put in.
例句
The fans get their money's worth.
粉丝们的钱没白花。