英语词汇“to rake it in”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. transitive. To accumulate (money); to acquire (wealth). Frequently in collocation with scrape (cf. Phrases 2). to rake it in (colloquial): to amass a vast sum of money. to rake off: to collect or divert (a share of profits, winnings, etc.), esp. illegally. to rake in the shekels: see shekel n. 2.

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1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. H3^v By which kind of theft,..they rake in great somes of mony.

1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xii. ii. 157 Her exceeding greedines in raking of money.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 80 Now gather gold and spare not by heapes, rake and scrape together masses of silver.

a1627 J. Hayward Life & Raigne Edward Sixt (1630) 88 How greedily, how insatiably hath he neuer ceased the whilest to rake & gleane mony together?

1707 G. Miège Present State of Great Brit. I. x. 219 I have observed many of 'em..who will be raking and scraping all the year, what they will lay out upon a Frolick in one Day.

a1758 T. Newman Serm. on Happiness (1760) II. xvii. 445 If to live was only to scramble for, or rake together wealth.

1765 tr. A. Goudar Chinese Spy III. lxxix. 203 Some shall spend their whole life in raking and scraping up wealth to found a college.

1831 Hagerstown (Maryland) Mail 25 Mar. 1/3 He was devouring all the money they could rake and scrape to pay for the lands he had sold them.

1891 Chicago Tribune 3 Feb. 2/3 (headline) On a Margin of $2,000 He Raked Off a Profit of $900.

1893 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 30 Sept. Now he is the proprietor of a fine place and is making money as fast as he can rake it in.

1940 R. Wright Native Son i. 11 I bet that sonofabitch rakes off a million bucks in graft a year.

1969 Observer 21 Dec. 28/3 He's raking it in already. Writes ‘think pieces’ for Honey magazine.

1985 A. Lurie Foreign Affairs iii. 73 Myrna's in real estate... She's working her..head off. Raking it in too.

1992 D. F. Gates Chief vi. 84 By ‘recruiting’ hundreds of handbooks across the country, the Mafia raked off a fortune.

2005 Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi) (Nexis) 4 Feb. 1 a If you don't rake and scrape every penny for your district, then it's going to go somewhere else.

单词	to rake it in
释义	> as lemmas to rake it in a. transitive. To accumulate (money); to acquire (wealth). Frequently in collocation with scrape (cf. Phrases 2). to rake it in (colloquial): to amass a vast sum of money. to rake off: to collect or divert (a share of profits, winnings, etc.), esp. illegally. to rake in the shekels: see shekel n. 2. ΚΠ 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. H3^v By which kind of theft,..they rake in great somes of mony. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xii. ii. 157 Her exceeding greedines in raking of money. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 80 Now gather gold and spare not by heapes, rake and scrape together masses of silver. a1627 J. Hayward Life & Raigne Edward Sixt (1630) 88 How greedily, how insatiably hath he neuer ceased the whilest to rake & gleane mony together? 1707 G. Miège Present State of Great Brit. I. x. 219 I have observed many of 'em..who will be raking and scraping all the year, what they will lay out upon a Frolick in one Day. a1758 T. Newman Serm. on Happiness (1760) II. xvii. 445 If to live was only to scramble for, or rake together wealth. 1765 tr. A. Goudar Chinese Spy III. lxxix. 203 Some shall spend their whole life in raking and scraping up wealth to found a college. 1831 Hagerstown (Maryland) Mail 25 Mar. 1/3 He was devouring all the money they could rake and scrape to pay for the lands he had sold them. 1891 Chicago Tribune 3 Feb. 2/3 (headline) On a Margin of $2,000 He Raked Off a Profit of $900. 1893 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 30 Sept. Now he is the proprietor of a fine place and is making money as fast as he can rake it in. 1940 R. Wright Native Son i. 11 I bet that sonofabitch rakes off a million bucks in graft a year. 1969 Observer 21 Dec. 28/3 He's raking it in already. Writes ‘think pieces’ for Honey magazine. 1985 A. Lurie Foreign Affairs iii. 73 Myrna's in real estate... She's working her..head off. Raking it in too. 1992 D. F. Gates Chief vi. 84 By ‘recruiting’ hundreds of handbooks across the country, the Mafia raked off a fortune. 2005 Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi) (Nexis) 4 Feb. 1 a If you don't rake and scrape every penny for your district, then it's going to go somewhere else. extracted from rakev.² < as lemmas
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