a tidy sum

基本解釋

He's put aside a tidy sum for his retirement.
他存了一筆相儅可觀的錢以備退休之用。
While $1 million was a tidy sum three decades ago, you'd need $3.6 million for the same purchasing power today.
一百萬在三年前的確是一大筆財富，但今天買同樣的商品，你需要360萬。
Many of the original holders of the bonds, weary of waiting for a deal, have sold them to others for as little as 12 cents on the dollar, so the purchasers of these bonds stand to make a tidy sum.
許多原始的債權(quán)人因爲(wèi)厭煩等候償債協(xié)議，早已將持有的債券以12美分兌換一美元的低價轉(zhuǎn)賣給他人，所以這些債券的新買主很可能手上都握有相儅大筆的金額。

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