名词<贬>金钱收益，利润
1. 收益：lucrative 有利的 | lucre 收益 | Lucretia 贞妇
2. 收益,钱财：lucrative盈利的 a | lucre收益,钱财 | loll懒洋洋
3. 谋利：lucrativepost 肥缺 | lucre 谋利 | ludwigite 硼镁铁石
4. 钱,利益：lucrative 赚钱的 | lucre 钱,利益 | lucubrate 刻苦攻读,埋头苦干
1. 阿堵物；孔方兄；金钱收益；（尤指）不义之财
People sometimes refer to money or profit as lucre, especially when they think that it has been obtained by dishonest means.
e.g. ...so they can feel less guilty about their piles of filthy lucre.
这样他们就可以对那大把大把的黑心钱感到不那么内疚
1. The filthy lucre was intended as a kind of " educational display " a deterrent for the potentially bad apples among public servants.
2. And if lucre is what lures some countries to kill whales, they should turn their harpoons into gardening forks and their boats into pleasure cruisers.
3. With so many senior officials recently falling to the lure of lucre, it becomes difficult to accept that vice lies only with individual greed.
4. Earlier crackdowns on the " small coffers " failed ironically because of the lure of the lucre.
5. The bidding for world heritage status should be aimed at preserving the sites, and not to only lure in the lucre.
6. The lure of the lucre has prompted some local authorities to misuse their administrative power.
7. Sometimes they are even more brazen than such companies in their pursuit of lucre.
lucre的意思
noun
1. the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses)
Synonym: net income net net profit profit profits earnings
2. lucre
2. informal terms for money
Synonym: boodle bread cabbage clams dinero dough gelt kale lettuce lolly loot moolah pelf scratch shekels simoleons sugar wampum