| 词组 | rake |
| 释义 | rake [raked, raked, raking] rake in rake in sth spoken to earn a large amount of money, especially without working very hard: ▪ Forbes magazine published a report asserting the nation's top 134 lawyers together raked in some $860 million in one year. be raking it in ▪ Everyone assumes that if you're on TV, you must be raking it in. rake off rake off sth • rake sth off especially BrE to get part of the profits of a business or organization dishonestly: ▪ He headed a special fund for the handicapped, and was widely believed to have raked off much of the cash for himself. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑skim off rake-off n C BrE a share of a profits, which someone has obtained dishonestly: ▪ The taxi-driver gets a rake-off from the hotel. rake over rake over sth if you rake over something unpleasant that happened in the past, you talk or think about it again and again, when it would be better to forget it: ▪ "There's no point in raking over the past," my mother always said, but I wanted to know what had happened. rake up 1. rake up sth • rake sth up to talk about something unpleasant from the past that people do not want you to mention, because it is upsetting or embarrassing: ▪ I don't want reporters coming here, raking up the past. ▪ They don't seem to realise how painful it is for her to have all this raked up again. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑dwell on/upon 2. rake sth up • rake up sth to collect things together for a particular purpose, when this is difficult to do: ▪ Between them they only managed to rake up $50. |
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