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

• 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。
• One Hong Kong lawyer believes that if any fraud were established, it could lead to civil settlement that might be discounted against the value of the loan notes, allowing caterpillar to claw back part of the cost of the era deal.
  一位香港律师相信，如果证实存在欺诈行为，就可能导致抵消欠款的民事和解，让卡特彼勒收回收购年代煤机的部分成本。
• Now, there are grounds for believing the rich countries North America, Western Europe and Japan could claw back some of the losses in the share of output that they have suffered in recent years.
  而现在，我们有理由相信，未来北美、西欧以及日本等发达国家可能部分夺回近年来在全球制造领域损失的份额。
• When the catastrophe occurred the banks were unable to claw back bonuses already paid out on unreal profits.
  当灾难发生后，银行无法追回那些已根据非真实利润发放出去的奖金。
• Companies are also reducing multiples of salary paid to chief executives as part of severance packages, and are adopting provisions to claw back bonus payments at a later date.
  同时，美国公司还在降低首席执行官离职补偿方案中的支薪倍数，而且加入了日后收回奖金的条款。
• 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。
• But big pay-outs for US banking executives still seem permissible, although there are provisions for claw back bonuses paid on earnings that turn out to have been "materially inaccurate".
  但美国似乎仍允许银行业高管获得巨额派息，不过有一些根据业绩发放补偿性红利的规定，事实证明它们“根本不准确”。
• Starting without pivot Wang Zhizhi for the second straight game, Bayi saw it trailing by10-point plus after the first quarter again, but failed to claw back after pitching Wang in the second one.
  第二场比赛中，作为八一队中流砥柱的王治郅仍没有首发。八一在第一节结束时又一次落后10来分，但这次他们在第二节派上王治郅后却没能再次把比分追上。
• A new mining levy will claw back some of firms'growing profits, supposedly to cover environmental and social costs.
  一项新的矿业税将一些公司不断增长的利润弥补回来，该矿业税包含了环境和社会成本。
• Specialisation means that, once manufacturing has gone to Asia, it is very hard for US or European manufacturers to claw back.
  专业化意味着，一旦制造业转移到亚洲，美国和欧洲制造商将很难重新获得优势。