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Launder Money Wash Detergent Banks Clothes Things Dirty

英语单词 launder
英美音标 英 ['lɔːndə(r)] 美 ['lɔːndər]
中文释义 n.流水槽
v.洗涤;清洗;洗黑钱(把来路可疑的钱弄得貌似合法)
英语例句 (1) Detergent powders will however,launder less efficiently at the boil,a use for which they are not intended.
(2) North Korea's already limping economy is suffering too, as banks that once helped launder money for the communist state, for example in Macau, have frozen its accounts.
中文例句 (1) 沸水可降低洗衣粉的洗涤效果,且洗衣粉无此用法。
(2) 朝鲜已然疲软的经济也正受此影响,因为曾经帮朝鲜政府洗黑钱的那些银行,比如澳门的银行,已经冻结了该国的账户。
vocabulary简明 To launder is to wash your clothes or other things made from cloth, like sheets and towels. A college student might try to wait to launder her clothes until she goes home for Thanksgiving.
vocabulary扩展 When you launder, you wash a load of laundry, or dirty clothes. These days most of us use a washing machine to launder, adding detergent to the water and then tossing the wet things in the dryer after they're clean. Another meaning of launder is "hide the origins of illegal money," or "make dirty money look clean," which is usually done by making it appear that the money was earned through a legitimate business.
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]洗熨(衣物) When you launder clothes, sheets, and towels, you wash and iron them.
  [V n]
  [V-ed]
  [OLD-FASHIONED 过时]
  • How many guests who expect clean towels every day in an hotel launder their own every day at home?...

    希望在酒店里天天有干净毛巾用的客人,有多少会在家里每天洗烫自己的毛巾呢?

  • She wore a freshly laundered and starched white shirt.

    她穿一件刚刚浆洗熨烫过的白色衬衣。

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[VERB 动词]洗(钱) To launder money that has been obtained illegally means to process it through a legitimate business or to send it abroad to a foreign bank, so that when it comes back nobody knows that it was illegally obtained.
  [V n]
  • The House voted today to crack down on banks that launder drug money.

    众议院今天表决打击为毒资洗钱的银行。

launderer
  • ...a businessman and self-described money launderer.

    一位既是商人又自称是洗钱者的人

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