claw back

英 [klɔː bæk]

美 [klɔː bæk]

捞回，夺回（钱财或权势）; （政府）追回（已支付给民众的款项）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 捞回，夺回(钱财或权势)
  If someoneclaws backsome of the money or power they had lost, they get some of it back again.
  1. They will eventually be able to claw back all or most of the debt...
     他们最终能捞回全部或大部分的债务。
  2. In the meantime his generals will want to claw back some of their old influence.
     与此同时，他的将军们还想东山再起。
• PHRASAL VERB (政府)收回(已支付给民众的款项)
  If a governmentclaws backmoney, it finds a way of taking money back from people that it gave money to in another way.
  1. The Chancellor will try to claw back £3.5 billion in next year's Budget.
     财政大臣在明年的预算中将争取收回35亿英镑。

双语例句

• Despite speculation that Sony could claw back some of its losses with a video on demand release, a spokesperson said: Sony Pictures has no further release plans for the film.
  尽管有传言称，索尼可能会通过点映弥补一些损失，但一位发言人称：索尼电影还没有进一步的影片上映计划。
• The proposed rules would allow banks to "claw back" deferred bonuses from employees who failed to meet their targets.
  草案规定，银行可“追回”未完成业绩目标的员工递延发放的奖金。
• That the price only just broke even suggests unusually high selling pressure, and some heroic efforts from the stabilisation agents at China International Capital Corp to claw back shares in the market.
  农行股价刚刚持平这个事实似乎表明，卖出压力高得不寻常，而中金公司（cicc）作为后市稳定代理人，做出了从市场上购回股票的英勇努力。
• One Hong Kong lawyer believes that if any fraud were established, it could lead to civil settlement that might be discounted against the value of the loan notes, allowing caterpillar to claw back part of the cost of the era deal.
  一位香港律师相信，如果证实存在欺诈行为，就可能导致抵消欠款的民事和解，让卡特彼勒收回收购年代煤机的部分成本。
• In the meantime his generals will want to claw back some of their old influence.
  与此同时，他的将军们还想东山再起。
• So it is encouraging that both the government and RBS are taking steps not only to claw back past payouts from those touched by the scandal, but to shrink the bonus pool itself.
  因此，英国政府和rbs不仅都采取措施，收回丑闻涉案者之前的奖金，而且还缩减了奖金池本身的规模，这一点值得称道。
• Now, there are grounds for believing the rich countries North America, Western Europe and Japan could claw back some of the losses in the share of output that they have suffered in recent years.
  而现在，我们有理由相信，未来北美、西欧以及日本等发达国家可能部分夺回近年来在全球制造领域损失的份额。
• But big pay-outs for US banking executives still seem permissible, although there are provisions for claw back bonuses paid on earnings that turn out to have been "materially inaccurate".
  但美国似乎仍允许银行业高管获得巨额派息，不过有一些根据业绩发放补偿性红利的规定，事实证明它们“根本不准确”。
• It will be the case again with new rules to defer bank bonuses and claw back rewards for deals that later go bad.
  如果实施新规则，延迟发放奖金，对于后来出现亏损的项目收回先前付出的报酬，上述情形将会重演。
• The airline is beginning to claw back some of the business it lost after the bomb explosion.
  这个航空公司开始收回一些炸弹爆炸后损失的业务了。