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

• Otherwise, SWD shall be entitled to withhold any amount of approved funding and claw back the payment.
  否则，社署有权停止发放及追回有关拨款。
• The practice seemed harmless until the broker went bust, leaving hundreds of funds facing a long struggle to claw back assets.
  在雷曼破产前，这种做法似乎无害，但在雷曼破产后，它让数百家对冲基金走上了讨回资产的漫漫长路。
• 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。
• Germans also score top on business leaders being unethical, with 81 per cent; overpaid at 88 per cent; and that governments should claw back bonuses at 82 per cent.
  德国人在认为企业领导人缺乏道德、薪酬过高以及政府应收回奖金方面的比例也是最高的，分别为81%、88%和82%。
• Companies which reduce the value of option grants by the performance of an index and have real provisions to claw back bonuses after poor performance will benefit from investor confidence.
  若企业减少根据某一指标表现发放的期权的价值，并制定切实条款在业绩欠佳后追回奖金，就将获得投资者的信任，并从中受益。
• Hotel may offer a room discount, but hope to claw back profit from overpriced services.
  酒店也许会提供客房折扣，但往往希望从高价服务中找回利润。
• Its success will be closely monitored by investors as the Canadian group attempts to claw back sales in a market dominated by rivals such as Apple and Samsung.
  这家加拿大公司试图在苹果（Apple）、三星（Samsung）等竞争对手主导的市场上夺回销量之际，Passport的成功与否将受到投资者密切关注。
• 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。
• The four Japanese makers are also hoping to claw back some market share, forecasting a 47 per cent rise in shipments, compared with 36 per cent for the two largest South Korean companies.
  四家日本厂商还希望能夺回一些市场份额，预计它们的出货量将上升47%，而两家最大的韩国公司预测增幅为36%。
• 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***爆炸后损失的业务了。