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

• 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。
• If there are big pay-offs, Congress could decide to claw back the benefits.
  如果有大额收益，国会可以做出决定追还这些收益。
• Firms like Morgan Stanley have already instituted a claw back policy while others are now falling in line.
  摩根士丹利（MorganStanley）之类的公司已经制订了追回政策，而其他公司也在纷纷效仿。
• The airline is beginning to claw back some of the business it lost after the bomb explosion.
  这个航空公司开始收回一些炸弹爆炸后损失的业务了。
• The practice seemed harmless until the broker went bust, leaving hundreds of funds facing a long struggle to claw back assets.
  在雷曼破产前，这种做法似乎无害，但在雷曼破产后，它让数百家对冲基金走上了讨回资产的漫漫长路。
• 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。
• 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。
• Despite speculation that Sony could claw back some of its losses with a video on demand release, a spokesperson said: Sony Pictures has no further release plans for the film.
  尽管有传言称，索尼可能会通过点映弥补一些损失，但一位发言人称：索尼电影还没有进一步的影片上映计划。
• 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”。
• When the catastrophe occurred the banks were unable to claw back bonuses already paid out on unreal profits.
  当灾难发生后，银行无法追回那些已根据非真实利润发放出去的奖金。