Lucre

(n.) Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.

录入:凯文

• In the calm with which you learnt you had become suddenly rich, I read a mind clear of the vice of Demas:--lucre had no undue power over you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Then she tried a child's story, which she could easily have disposed of if she had not been mercenary enough to demand filthy lucre for it. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

编辑:娜塔莎