cough up

释义

1. 咳出

   He was coughing up blood.

   他在咳血。

   He was coughing up a lung.

   （比喻）他肺都要咳出来了。

2. 不情愿地交出

   idiomatic · informal · transitive

3. 不情愿地交出

   （指钱） （不情愿地）给，支付

   idiomatic · informal · transitive

   Do you think he'll be able to cough up the three grand by Tuesday?

   你觉得他周二前能交出三千美元吗？

   "[…] Usually businessmen. Married, middle-aged guys who'll cough up fifty bucks to smoke my pole."

   2006, K. M. Soehnlein, You Can Say You Knew Me When, page 240:

4. 不情愿地交出

   （指其他事物） 交出

   idiomatic · informal · transitive

   "Anyhow, you go and cough it up and then we shall see."

   1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist:

   Cough it up, Cooper.

   2013, The Big Bang Theory, season 6, episode 14:

5. （在比赛快结束时出岔子而）失败

   idiomatic

   That team had the game won, but they coughed it up in the end.

   那个队本来稳赢的，但是最后还是出岔子输了。

6. 失（球）

   idiomatic · transitive

   England had never before come back to win from a margin of more than 12 points, and the errors continued to come thick and fast as Tom Croft became the latest to cough up the ball.

   2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France: