Exchequer

(n.) One of the superior courts of law; -- so called from a checkered cloth, which covers, or formerly covered, the table.

(n.) The department of state having charge of the collection and management of the royal revenue. [Eng.] Hence, the treasury; and, colloquially, pecuniary possessions in general; as, the company's exchequer is low.

(v. t.) To institute a process against (any one) in the Court of Exchequer.

校对:玛拉

• My aunt, looking very like an immovable Chancellor of the Exchequer, would occasionally throw in an interruption or two, as 'Hear! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• In pursuance of the same act, the bank cancelled exchequer bills to the amount of ? 1,775,027: 17s: 10?d. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Without it, I could never have gone to that Exchequer Coffee House, or taken Mrs Wilfer's lodgings. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It was said of Gladstone that he was the greatest Chancellor of the Exchequer England ever saw, but that as a retail merchant he would soon have ruined himself by his bookkeeping. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This money, however, was for a long time, received at the exchequer, by weight, and not by tale. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Because he hates to be idle; though what he earns doesn't add much to our exchequer. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• If I could do so with cuffs, said the King, my creditors should have little reason to complain of an empty exchequer. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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