stump up

英 [stʌmp ʌp]

美 [stʌmp ʌp]

（常指不情愿地）付钱，掏腰包

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB (常指不情愿地)付钱，掏腰包
  If youstump upa sum of money, you pay it, often unwillingly.
  1. Customers do not have to stump up any cash for at least four weeks.
     顾客们至少四周内都不必付钱。

双语例句

• He was helped through university by the wealthy widow of Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the combine harvester, who had been persuaded by father Luce to stump up for his China mission.
  他在联合收割机发明者塞勒斯·麦考密克的遗孀帮助下读完大学。她曾在卢斯神父的劝说下掏钱赞助他前往中国。
• I'm always being asked to stump up for school outings.
  总是要求我为学校郊游付钱。
• Others point out that many of his proposals are not funded; indeed, the plan explicitly says that central government must stump up.
  也有人指出他的许多提议都没有资金支持，而事实上他的计划已明白无误的表示政府必须自掏腰包。
• All I have to do is wait every day by the stump to pick up the hare that runs into it.
  每天在树桩旁等着捡撞死的野兔就好了。
• He's visited six of the world's seven continents at least twice, and would stump across Antarctica if the penguins anted up.
  他访问过世界7个大洲中的6个洲。如果企鹅愿意付钱的话，他会到南极洲去作巡回政治演讲。
• Customers do not have to stump up any cash for at least four weeks.
  顾客们至少四周内都不必付钱。
• And deep down there is an acceptance that they must stump up the entry fee if they want to be taken seriously at the White House.
  但在内心深处，他们都认同：如果想被白宫重视，他们必须掏入场费。
• That is hardly surprising since the vast majority of those surveyed said they were unlikely to stump up money when a private-equity firm they have already invested in raises a new fund.
  这并不奇怪，因为绝大多数被调查者声称，如果自己投资的私募公司又要募集新基金的话，他们可没兴趣继续买单。
• But unless my memory deceives me, Barclays was almost as eager to stump up countless billions for the now-broken Dutch bank.
  但除非我的记忆出了毛病，巴克莱银行（Barclays）几乎同样醉心于天价收购如今已破产的荷兰银行。
• China, which is being asked to stump up more money for the IMF, would also like to ensure that it is not bankrolling a has-been institution.
  外界正要求中国为IMF提供更多资金，中国也想确保，它不是在为一个过时的机构掏腰包。