grubstake

1 But the search would have to be made under circumstances that would make the fair-weather prospectors of Colorado and the grubstake eaters of the Mojave desert gasp.

2 Did I ask you to get back my grubstake?

3 The resulting income, the firm hopes, will provide it with the grubstake it needs to move on to the big prize: titanium.

4 You’re a crook and you know it; and I don’t want that grubstake contract, nohow.

5 I started out prospecting with scarcely a grubstake.

6 He had been seeking a "grubstake,"—some one to finance another expedition into the virgin Clearwater for half of such gains as he should make.

7 A job for coffee and cakes, and maybe a grubstake to work a few more lonely rocks.

8 He must get all his grubstake in too, and after snowfall he would have to be mighty careful about making tracks around any place.

9 How much would be needed to help these settlers hold on—a little grubstake, some future operating money?

10 I have no doubt she was grubstaked by suppliers on Washington Street.”

11 You tell the boys you are not going, and that Uncle Ike will not grubstake you.

12 Me, I got fo'-five chances to grubstake in that time, but I'm broke.

13 He was working on my grubstake–and he was with you when you made your strike.”

14 Both, as it happens, were attributes prized by Charles Lewis Tiffany, who helped found a store that sold stationery and fancy goods in 1837 with a $1,000 grubstake from his father.

15 Money's only a grubstake, so's you c'n buy things and go out and hunt for gold.

16 Cheyenne is a kind of hobo puncher that rides the country with his little old pack-horse, stoppin' by to work for a grubstake when he has to, but ramblin' most of the time.

17 I'm down and out, and I'm free to confess it, and any of you ladies and gents who would like to grubstake a stranger in a foreign land, why, here's your chance.

18 He used up his grubstake, got a second from his backers, and subsequently a third.

19 Musk, for instance, got at least part of his grubstake from an emerald mine his family owned during the apartheid era in South Africa.

20 He made a grubstake of, by all accounts, selling black market blue jeans and computers.

1 贷款者

lender

2 资助

contributory sustentation subsidize

3 物质援助

stake

4 向…提供物质援助

stake

5 贷款

credit loan accommodation lend

6 供给资金

stake

7 资金

fund loan finance chest exchequer wherewithal munition base capital scratch stake purse fond damper bankroll