ill-gotten gains

释义

1. 從非正當手段獲得的錢財或資產

   Ill-gotten gains never prosper.

   不義之財絕不會令你發達。

   Was it her fault if she did not possess those sycophantic arts which her hypocritical nephew, Pitt Crawley, practised? She wished him all the happiness which he merited out of his ill-gotten gains.

   1847 January – 1848 July，William Makepeace Thackeray，第XXXIX章，收錄於Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero，London：Bradbury and Evans, […]，1848 出版，→OCLC：

   Secondly, the highly reprehensible course pursued by the Free Church of Scotland, in soliciting, receiving, and retaining money in its sustentation fund for supporting the gospel in Scotland, which was evidently the ill-gotten gain of slaveholders and slave-traders.

   1855, Frederick Douglass, “Life as a Freeman”, in My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, page 380:

   By the bright bow of Heaven, I will have their ill-gotten gains from them, even though I hang for it as high as e'er a forest tree in Sherwood!

   1883，Howard Pyle，「Robin Hood and Will Scarlet」，收錄於The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown, in Nottinghamshire，New York, N.Y.： […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […]，→OCLC：

   The exclusion from his clubs would mean ruin to Moran, who lived by his ill-gotten card gains.

   1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Empty House”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes:

   How, exactly, does a lawyer come to legally give away ill-gotten gains on behalf of an international company that does not want to be named and surely does not want to face prosecution for what one division did?

   2015 February 6, Paul Sullivan, “Finding the ‘Right’ Way to Dispose of Ill-Gotten Gains”, in The New York Times, →ISSN: