cash cow

cash cow

美 　英

• n.【商】摇钱树；最赚钱的商品
• 网络现金牛；现金牛产品；现金奶牛

词形变化

复数：cash cows  

英汉双解

英汉解释

n.	1. 【商】摇钱树;最赚钱的商品

英英解释

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创造自己的商业模式，使它运作起来，变成一只现金牛使你可以获利或者卖掉。

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

低热量增甜剂的市场单在美国就接近每年十亿美元之巨，因此索默丁可能成为商家们的摇钱树。

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

这种产品一直是我们公司的摇钱树。

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.

华莱士：我是个商人，理发店不是摇钱树。所以我要把它变成一家男士俱乐部。

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

他的最新发明现在真的变成了他的摇钱树了。

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

部门陷入了困境，但成像与制卡部门是该公司的现金牛。

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

Youtube究其本质，还是因为代表了一种社区或文化，而非“现金牛”而吸引人。

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

为了保证现金流的来源，丰田不止一次地偏离了自己的追求绿色环保的道路。

McDonalds restaurant would be a real cash cow.

麦当劳餐厅是真正的摇钱树。

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

德国，法兰克福：证券交易所，达克斯指数，德国股票价格指数牌前面的吉祥物——现金牛。

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

但在汽车业在金融危机过后试图站稳脚跟之际，新兴市场是其最大的增长点。

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

对于丈夫和妻子在海南，中国南部沿海岛屿的一个团队，科学出版是他们的摇钱树。

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

也就是说，不要把你的工作当做摇钱树。

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

金融服务这十年来都是政府倚重的金鸡，现在却要依靠它所轻视的国家。

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

嗯~，我也希望自己能有这样一个会赚钱的摇钱树呢。

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

然而，储存芯片价格的大幅跳水意味着三星将无法再依赖其摇钱树。

"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.

他接着表示：“对我们而言，台湾是一个非常能赚钱的地方”，但现在是时候去亚洲“其它市场”谋求发展了。

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

但直到目前，尚不清楚美国在线在其传统业务这一现金牛最终枯竭之前能否继续经营下去。

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

官员们还将视线投向了另一棵茁壮成长的摇钱树——业主为信用卡付款而支付的“交换费”。

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

换走一个这么优秀的球员，这么大的一棵摇钱树，我不知道火箭能得到多大的回报！

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

谷歌早已对微软其他摇钱树发动了掠夺之战，比如以谷歌Docs在线办公挑战Office办公套件。

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

时下利用多余的工作休息日来接点兼职来干是一个很好的‘财源牛’。

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

在中国的乳品行业被卷进受污染产品的旋涡之前，牛奶是一棵摇钱树。

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

如果经济效益真的不错，那么YouTube就会变成一颗摇钱树。

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

学校旁边新开的电影院真是个摇钱树啊。

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

罪恶之城拉斯维加斯是用黑手党的钱建起来的，而让他们放开摇钱树是一件棘手的事。

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

你创造出来的这个模式就是所谓的“现金牛。”。

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

这家密苏里州的轨道车辆租凭公司是Icahn的摇钱树，专门用来资助他其他的投资事业。

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

更惨的是墨西哥石油业正在迅速衰退，石油业过去三十年曾是墨西哥的最大财源（参见附表）。

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

新公司广开财源。我们赚了好多钱。

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

如果没有收购溢价，这家已经结束增长的公司，充其量只是一头派发股息的现金牛。

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

院子里长一片摇钱树，果实全宇宙通用，一年光风吹跑的就有几亿美金！

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

但他们表示，和记黄埔的估值看上去比较便宜，将会成为投资者的摇钱树，这是一个“缓慢但必然的过程”。

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

如果办公软件崩溃，微软的另一个摇钱树，Windows，也就离崩溃不远了。

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

不过，其他几个因素让投资者对这家颇有潜力的赚钱机器另眼相看。

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

手机业在一些国家被看成摇钱树。

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

“微软的麻烦就是赚钱项目正在转移，”YankeeGroup的分析师CarlHowe说。

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

债券业务以往都是收入的贡献大户，本季度亏损了15亿美元。

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

从人文角度来所这个服务给网站提供了全自动的赚钱服务。这对谷歌也是如此，在2010年第四季度，这个服务占谷歌总收入的三成。

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

杰夫：我需要找棵摇钱树，这样我就可以发财，早点儿退休了。