他想在这笔肮脏的交易中捞一把: he tried to profiteer from this dirty deal
Example Sentences:
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And so congress is quite happy to keep this gravy train going 因此国会也乐于不断从中大捞一把。
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He ' s always been good at fishing in troubled waters ; he made a lot of money by buying houses that were bombed in the war 他总是善于乘人之危大捞一把,他靠购买在战争中遭过轰炸的房屋而赚了大量的钱财。
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The impression is of a government that ' s happy to reap the benefits at a time when consumers and businesses are paying through the nose 这个现政府给人们留下的印象是,当消费者和公司企业在被敲竹杠的时候,他们却在那里得意洋洋地大捞一把。