Hoard

(noun.) a secret store of valuables or money.

(verb.) save up as for future use.

录入:莱斯特

• Convinced of his security from Persia, Pericles spent the war hoard of the allies upon the beautification of his city. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She loved this hoard as a bird loves its eggs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Men made sly and crude schemes to corner it, to hoard it, to send up prices by releasing hoarded metals. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Not blaming me for getting a little hoard together? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The same violence which made it convenient to hoard, made it equally convenient to conceal the hoard. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• She went upstairs and took from a locked drawer a little box, out of which she poured a hoard of broad unworn guineas that had lain there many a year. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• The same disposition, to save and to hoard, prevailed in the sovereign, as well as in the subjects. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It took many weeks to explore its whole contents; and Captain Holmes found it a very agreeable task to dive into the miser's secret hoards. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• A rough hoarding of boards had been knocked up before the vestry doorway. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He had hoarded, all these years, I found, to good purpose. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I hoarded it to purchase my freedom, said Gurth. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• It owned great properties and often hoarded huge treasures. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Men made sly and crude schemes to corner it, to hoard it, to send up prices by releasing hoarded metals. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In their Vatican is stored up all that is curious and beautiful in art; in our Patent Office is hoarded all that is curious or useful in mechanics. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Why I hoarded up this last wretched little rag of the robe of hope that was rent and given to the winds, how do I know? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.

编辑:米考伯