ill-gotten gains
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ill-gotten gains 复 (仅复数)
- 从非正当手段获得的钱财或资产
- 近义词： dirty money
- Ill-gotten gains never prosper.
- 不义之财绝不会令你发达。
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, 章号 XXXIX, 出自 Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], 出版于 1848, →OCLC:
- Was it her fault if she did not possess those sycophantic arts which her hypocritical nephew, Pitt Crawley, practised? She wished him all the happiness which he merited out of his ill-gotten gains.
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- 1855, Frederick Douglass, “Life as a Freeman”, 出自 My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan，页号 380:
- Secondly, the highly reprehensible course pursued by the Free Church of Scotland, in soliciting, receiving, and retaining money in its sustentation fund for supporting the gospel in Scotland, which was evidently the ill-gotten gain of slaveholders and slave-traders.
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- 1883, Howard Pyle, “Robin Hood and Will Scarlet”, 出自 The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown, in Nottinghamshire, New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:
- By the bright bow of Heaven, I will have their ill-gotten gains from them, even though I hang for it as high as e'er a forest tree in Sherwood!
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- 1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Empty House”, 出自 The Return of Sherlock Holmes[1]:
- The exclusion from his clubs would mean ruin to Moran, who lived by his ill-gotten card gains.
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- 2015 2月 6, Paul Sullivan, “Finding the ‘Right’ Way to Dispose of Ill-Gotten Gains”, 出自 The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
- How, exactly, does a lawyer come to legally give away ill-gotten gains on behalf of an international company that does not want to be named and surely does not want to face prosecution for what one division did?
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