例句-1: I heard about this house the owner had to sell in a hurry, so I got it at a very cheap price. A week later I sold it for a 20,000 dollar profit. Talk about your easy money!
例句2: I know you all want to be successful in the future. But the best way to do that is to get a good education. If I were you, I'd study hard and not spend a lot of time in figuring out how to make easy money.
钱在英文里有好几种说法。Money只是其中最普遍的一个字。另外,你可以说:Dollar. Dollar就是美金,或美元。那当然是钱。我们下面要给大家介绍的一个习惯用语就是和dollar这个字有关。To bet one's bottom dollar. To bet就是打赌。One's bottom dollar就是一个人把钱都花完了,只剩下口袋底里最后一张钞票。当某人用自己最后剩下的钱去打赌的时候,这个人一定很自信,认为自己在某个问题上完全准确,因此愿意冒一切风险来证实这一点。
下面是一个例子。通过这个例子我们可以看到在日常生活中这个习惯用语是怎么用的。
例句3: You know, Senator Clark keeps telling the press that he won't run for president in 1996. But I'd bet my bottom dollar that two years from now he'll announce he's a candidate.
例句4: Our company was to deliver the ordered products to our clients before four in the afternoon. However, Larry forgot the whole thing and the client was mad as a wet hen. But I bet my bottom dollar that Larry will blame somebody else for his mistake.