hard cash
英 [ˌhɑːd ˈkæʃ]
美 [ˌhɑːrd ˈkæʃ]
n. 现金(尤指硬币和纸币)
牛津词典
noun
- 现金（尤指硬币和纸币）
money, especially in the form of coins and notes, that you can spend
柯林斯词典
- 现款;现金
Hard cashis money in the form of notes and coins as opposed to a cheque or a credit card.
英英释义
noun
- money in the form of bills or coins
- there is a desperate shortage of hard cash
双语例句
- There was a lot of money involved, not in hard cash but in negotiable securities.
投入的资金很多，不是现金而是流通证券。 - Had BP bribed Libyan officials with hard cash, it would have been in trouble under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, but commercial realpolitik is not illegal.
如果英国石油用真金白银贿赂了利比亚官员，就违反了美国《反海外贿赂法》（foreigncorruptpracticesact），但商业中的权力政治并不违法。 - In the long run, this grand project should save banks billions, if only because their customers will feel less need to carry hard cash.
从长期看，仅仅是客户觉得不那么需要携带现钞这一点，这个大项目就能为银行剩下数百万元。 - Paying with plastic just doesn't feel the same as spending with cold hard cash, at least until your credit card statement arrives.
不只是付出塑料花一样的感觉，与冷酷的现金至少直到抵达你的信用卡声明。 - In these straitened times, you cannot knock hard cash even if it is just two-thirds what you almost received two years ago.
在当前的窘困时期，你不可能拒绝现金即使只有两年前几乎可以获得的金额的三分之二。 - Less than a decade ago, joint ventures regularly ended in tears, with Chinese partners viewing the vehicle as little more than a means to get their hands on hard cash and clever technology.
就在不到10年前，合资企业通常是不欢而散，因为中方合作伙伴只是将合资企业视为获得现金和先进技术的一种方式。 - The plumber would offer me a ten per cent discount if I paid him in hard cash.
要是我用现金支付，那管子工会给10%的折扣。 - He prefers hard cash to paper money.
他宁要硬币而不要纸币。 - You have to pay with hard cash at the discount store; they won't accept credit cards or cheques there.
在折扣商店你付现金，那里不接受信用卡和支票。 - It was only left to America to replace the beneficent "tooth rat" with the more agreeable fairy and to replace the traditional hope of hard molars with our more characteristic hope of hard cash.
美国人只是把好心的“牙齿老鼠”换成了更可亲的仙女，而传统上人们期望长出结实的牙齿，到咱们这儿却酿成了期望拿到现金，这就更拥有咱们的特点。