cough it up
基本解释
- 不情愿地付钱；勉强交出
英汉例句
- Cough it up. I know you have the twenty dollars.
付钱吧。我知道你有这二十美金的。 - You've owed me a hundred dollars for a month now, cough it up!
你欠我一百美元已经有一个月了，现在还给我！
blog.sina.com.cn - We know the stolen watch is in your possession, so you may as well cough it up.
我们知道那块被偷的表在你这儿，你还是把它交出来的好。 - All this cost money -- and the town didn't want to cough it up.
FORBES: Local heroes - This is true of the flu, hepatitis and AIDS. With the avian flu, we've modeled the virus on supercomputers, and we think we understand why it binds deep in the lungs--it's not communicable--you don't cough it up.
FORBES: Magazine Article - If MeerKAT succeeds, it might help persuade sceptical governments to cough up for the SKA. It will also enhance South Africa's chances of hosting this much larger project.
ECONOMIST: A new radio telescope may catalyse African science