fisc
fisc — 名詞
1. the money a government has ready to spend, raised mainly through taxes and other
公帑；財源
政府可動用的全部資金或財源
the money a government has ready to spend, raised mainly through taxes and other public income
Years of war slowly drained Spain's fisc, and the army went unpaid for months.
多年的戰爭慢慢耗盡了西班牙的公帑，軍隊好幾個月領不到薪餉。
drain the fisc for exhausting public funds
Dario warned the king that the fisc could not pay for another new palace.
Dario 警告國王，公帑已經付不起另一座新宮殿了。
Heavy taxes on salt and wine kept the city's fisc full during the long siege.
鹽和酒的重稅讓這座城市的公帑在長期圍城期間維持充足。
When the harvest failed, almost nothing flowed into the fisc that year.
收成歉收的那一年，幾乎沒有任何錢流入公帑。
Sana argued that every new tax would only add a little to the fisc.
Sana 主張每一項新稅都只會為公帑增加一點點收入。
- public purse
an everyday idiom for government money; far more common in modern English than 'fisc'
- coffers
usually plural; the store of money a state or group holds
- treasury
can mean either the money itself or the department that keeps it
文法句型
the fisc
into the fisc
drain the fisc
用法筆記
Almost always used of public or state money, never of a private person's savings. Common with verbs of filling and emptying: drain, fill, flow into, add to.
常見錯誤
2. a government office or store that keeps and controls a state's or ruler's money,
國庫；金庫
保管國家或君主錢財的官署或金庫
a government office or store that keeps and controls a state's or ruler's money, as in ancient Rome
In ancient Rome, the emperor controlled the fisc and decided how its gold was spent.
在古羅馬，皇帝掌控國庫，並決定庫裡的黃金如何花用。
the fisc as the ruler's treasury
Theo studied how clerks in the fisc counted every coin that reached Rome.
Theo 研究國庫裡的書記如何清點每一枚運抵羅馬的錢幣。
in the fisc for the treasury office
The general sent the captured silver straight to the fisc in the capital.
將軍把繳獲的白銀直接送往首都的國庫。
Hui explained that the fisc once held both the emperor's money and the army's pay.
Hui 解釋說，國庫曾經同時存放皇帝的錢和軍隊的軍餉。
Guards stood at the door of the fisc day and night to protect the coins.
守衛日夜站在國庫門口，保護裡面的錢幣。
文法句型
the fisc
in the fisc
to the fisc
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1: this sense names the treasury office or store itself, while sense 1 means the money kept in it. Most often seen in writing about ancient Rome.