claw back

英 [klɔː bæk]

美 [klɔː bæk]

捞回，夺回（钱财或权势）; （政府）追回（已支付给民众的款项）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 捞回，夺回(钱财或权势)
  If someoneclaws backsome of the money or power they had lost, they get some of it back again.
  1. They will eventually be able to claw back all or most of the debt...
     他们最终能捞回全部或大部分的债务。
  2. In the meantime his generals will want to claw back some of their old influence.
     与此同时，他的将军们还想东山再起。
• PHRASAL VERB (政府)收回(已支付给民众的款项)
  If a governmentclaws backmoney, it finds a way of taking money back from people that it gave money to in another way.
  1. The Chancellor will try to claw back £3.5 billion in next year's Budget.
     财政大臣在明年的预算中将争取收回35亿英镑。

双语例句

• So it is encouraging that both the government and RBS are taking steps not only to claw back past payouts from those touched by the scandal, but to shrink the bonus pool itself.
  因此，英国政府和rbs不仅都采取措施，收回丑闻涉案者之前的奖金，而且还缩减了奖金池本身的规模，这一点值得称道。
• Now, there are grounds for believing the rich countries North America, Western Europe and Japan could claw back some of the losses in the share of output that they have suffered in recent years.
  而现在，我们有理由相信，未来北美、西欧以及日本等发达国家可能部分夺回近年来在全球制造领域损失的份额。
• Specialisation means that, once manufacturing has gone to Asia, it is very hard for US or European manufacturers to claw back.
  专业化意味着，一旦制造业转移到亚洲，美国和欧洲制造商将很难重新获得优势。
• A new mining levy will claw back some of firms'growing profits, supposedly to cover environmental and social costs.
  一项新的矿业税将一些公司不断增长的利润弥补回来，该矿业税包含了环境和社会成本。
• Hotel may offer a room discount, but hope to claw back profit from overpriced services.
  酒店也许会提供客房折扣，但往往希望从高价服务中找回利润。
• Otherwise, SWD shall be entitled to withhold any amount of approved funding and claw back the payment.
  否则，社署有权停止发放及追回有关拨款。
• But big pay-outs for US banking executives still seem permissible, although there are provisions for claw back bonuses paid on earnings that turn out to have been "materially inaccurate".
  但美国似乎仍允许银行业高管获得巨额派息，不过有一些根据业绩发放补偿性红利的规定，事实证明它们“根本不准确”。
• That the price only just broke even suggests unusually high selling pressure, and some heroic efforts from the stabilisation agents at China International Capital Corp to claw back shares in the market.
  农行股价刚刚持平这个事实似乎表明，卖出压力高得不寻常，而中金公司（cicc）作为后市稳定代理人，做出了从市场上购回股票的英勇努力。
• Companies are also reducing multiples of salary paid to chief executives as part of severance packages, and are adopting provisions to claw back bonus payments at a later date.
  同时，美国公司还在降低首席执行官离职补偿方案中的支薪倍数，而且加入了日后收回奖金的条款。
• In the meantime his generals will want to claw back some of their old influence.
  与此同时，他的将军们还想东山再起。