cash cow

cash cow

美 　英

• n.【商】搖錢樹；最賺錢的商品
• 網絡現金牛；現金牛產品；現金奶牛

詞形變化

復數：cash cows  

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

n.	1. 【商】搖錢樹;最賺錢的商品

英英解釋

n.	1. [Business]a product or business that earns a lot of money, especially when this money is used to pay for something else

例句

All that you need to do is create your own idea, get it going, turn it into a cash cow and then either milk it or sell it.

你需要做的全部就是創造自己的商業模式，使它運作起來，變成一只現金牛使你可以獲利或者賣掉。

With the market for low-calorie sweeteners nearing $1 billion a year in the US alone, thaumatin is likely to become a cash cow.

低熱量增甜劑的市場單在美國就接近每年十億美元之巨，因此索默丁可能成為商家們的搖錢樹。

This product has always been a cash cow for our company.

這種產品一直是我們公司的搖錢樹。

Wallace: I'm a businessman, and a barber shop ain't exactly a cash cow. So I'll turn it into a gentlemen's club.

華萊士：我是個商人，理發店不是搖錢樹。所以我要把它變成一家男士俱樂部。

His latest invention turned out to be a real cash cow.

他的最新發明現在真的變成了他的搖錢樹了。

C is in trouble, but imaging and business card printing sector is the company's cash cow.

部門陷入了困境，但成像與制卡部門是該公司的現金牛。

YouTube is ultimately more interesting as a community and a culture, however, than as a cash cow.

Youtube究其本質，還是因為代表了一種社區或文化，而非“現金牛”而吸引人。

And to protect its cash cow, the company has strayed more than once from the path of environmental virtue.

為了保證現金流的來源，豐田不止一次地偏離了自己的追求綠色環保的道路。

McDonalds restaurant would be a real cash cow.

麥當勞餐廳是真正的搖錢樹。

Frankfurt, Germany: Cash-Cow, a mascot, in front of the German share price index board, the Dax, at the stock exchange.

德國，法蘭克福：證券交易所，達克斯指數，德國股票價格指數牌前面的吉祥物——現金牛。

But emerging markets are the car industry's biggest cash cow as it finds its footing after the financial crisis.

但在汽車業在金融危機過后試圖站穩腳跟之際，新興市場是其最大的增長點。

For a husband-and-wife team on Hainan, an island off China's southern coast, scientific publishing was their cash cow.

對于丈夫和妻子在海南，中國南部沿海島嶼的一個團隊，科學出版是他們的搖錢樹。

That said, don't treat your job just as a cash-cow, either.

也就是說，不要把你的工作當做搖錢樹。

Financial services on which the government had relied as the decade's cash cow now leaned on the state it despised.

金融服務這十年來都是政府倚重的金雞，現在卻要依靠它所輕視的國家。

That's $1, 400 an hour! This place is definitely a cash cow. I wish I owned a business like this.

嗯~，我也希望自己能有這樣一個會賺錢的搖錢樹呢。

Plunging memory-chip prices mean that Samsung can no longer rely on its cash cow, however.

然而，儲存芯片價格的大幅跳水意味著三星將無法再依賴其搖錢樹。

"Taiwan is a very good cash cow for us, " he added. But it was time to look at "the other markets for growth" within Asia.

他接著表示：“對我們而言，臺灣是一個非常能賺錢的地方”，但現在是時候去亞洲“其它市場”謀求發展了。

And yet, it's not clear AOL will make the economics work before its legacy cash cow finally dies.

但直到目前，尚不清楚美國在線在其傳統業務這一現金牛最終枯竭之前能否繼續經營下去。

Politicians also have their sights set on another plump cash cow: the "interchange" fees that merchants pay for credit-card payments.

官員們還將視線投向了另一棵茁壯成長的搖錢樹——業主為信用卡付款而支付的“交換費”。

I wonder what we could get in return for such a good player and such a great cash cow!

換走一個這么優秀的球員，這么大的一棵搖錢樹，我不知道火箭能得到多大的回報！

They have already opened the war against Microsoft's other cash cow, Office, with Google Docs.

谷歌早已對微軟其他搖錢樹發動了掠奪之戰，比如以谷歌Docs在線辦公挑戰Office辦公套件。

Right now taking on part-time jobs on your extra days off is a great cash cow.

時下利用多余的工作休息日來接點兼職來干是一個很好的‘財源牛’。

BeforeChina's dairy industry imploded in a swirl of tainted products, milk was a cash cow.

在中國的乳品行業被卷進受污染產品的旋渦之前，牛奶是一棵搖錢樹。

If the economics work out, YouTube could become even more of a cash cow.

如果經濟效益真的不錯，那么YouTube就會變成一顆搖錢樹。

The new movie theater that they just opened by campus is a real cash cow.

學校旁邊新開的電影院真是個搖錢樹啊。

Sin City was built with Mafia money and loosening their on the cash cow was a tough job.

罪惡之城拉斯維加斯是用黑手黨的錢建起來的，而讓他們放開搖錢樹是一件棘手的事。

What you have created is called a "cash cow. "

你創造出來的這個模式就是所謂的“現金牛。”。

the Missouri-based railcar leasing company that Icahn uses as his cash cow to fund outside investment activities.

這家密蘇里州的軌道車輛租憑公司是Icahn的搖錢樹，專門用來資助他其他的投資事業。

To make matters worse, the country's oil industry, its fiscal cash-cow for the past three decades, is declining swiftly (see chart).

更慘的是墨西哥石油業正在迅速衰退，石油業過去三十年曾是墨西哥的最大財源（參見附表）。

The new business is a great cash cow. We are making a lot of money now.

新公司廣開財源。我們賺了好多錢。

At best this ex-growth company, with no bid premium, is a dividend-paying cash cow.

如果沒有收購溢價，這家已經結束增長的公司，充其量只是一頭派發股息的現金牛。

A cash cow, fruit yards soaking universal, a NianGuang wind has hundreds of millions of dollars of run! ! ! ! !

院子里長一片搖錢樹，果實全宇宙通用，一年光風吹跑的就有幾億美金！

But they say valuations look cheap and 'slowly but surely Hutch is becoming a cash cow.

但他們表示，和記黃埔的估值看上去比較便宜，將會成為投資者的搖錢樹，這是一個“緩慢但必然的過程”。

And when Office crumbles, Microsoft's other cash cow, Windows, can't be far behind.

如果辦公軟件崩潰，微軟的另一個搖錢樹，Windows，也就離崩潰不遠了。

However, several factors warrant investors taking another look at this potential cash cow.

不過，其他幾個因素讓投資者對這家頗有潛力的賺錢機器另眼相看。

The mobile industry has been seen as a cash cow in some countries.

手機業在一些國家被看成搖錢樹。

"The trouble for Microsoft is that its cash cow is shifting, " said Carl Howe, analyst with Yankee Group.

“微軟的麻煩就是賺錢項目正在轉移，”YankeeGroup的分析師CarlHowe說。

The bond division, always the firm's cash cow, had a loss of $1. 5 billion for the quarter.

債券業務以往都是收入的貢獻大戶，本季度虧損了15億美元。

It's also a cash cow for Google, accounting for 30 percent of total revenues in the fourth quarter of 2010 ($8. 44 billion).

從人文角度來所這個服務給網站提供了全自動的賺錢服務。這對谷歌也是如此，在2010年第四季度，這個服務占谷歌總收入的三成。

Jeff: I need to find a cash cow so that I can get rich and retire early.

杰夫：我需要找棵搖錢樹，這樣我就可以發財，早點兒退休了。