cough up

英語

詞源

源自cough + up。

動詞

cough up (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 coughs up，現在分詞 coughing up，一般過去時及過去分詞 coughed up)

1. 咳出

   He was coughing up blood.

   他在咳血。

   He was coughing up a lung.

   （比喻）他肺都要咳出來了。

2. (俗語，及物，非正式) 不情願地交出
   1. （指錢） （不情願地）給，支付

      Do you think he'll be able to cough up the three grand by Tuesday?

      你覺得他周二前能交出三千美元嗎？

      • 2006, K. M. Soehnlein, You Can Say You Knew Me When，頁號 240:

        " […] Usually businessmen. Married, middle-aged guys who'll cough up fifty bucks to smoke my pole."

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   2. （指其他事物） 交出
      • 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist‎^[1]:

        "Anyhow, you go and cough it up and then we shall see."

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      • 2013, The Big Bang Theory, season 6, episode 14:

        Cough it up, Cooper.

3. (俗語) （在比賽快結束時出岔子而）失敗

   That team had the game won, but they coughed it up in the end.

   那個隊本來穩贏的，但是最後還是出岔子輸了。

4. (及物，俗語) 失（球）
   • 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France‎^[2]:

     England had never before come back to win from a margin of more than 12 points, and the errors continued to come thick and fast as Tom Croft became the latest to cough up the ball.

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近義詞

• (不情願地交錢)： shell out、fork out、fork over