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||1:Maria das Gra?as Foster, the chief executive of Petrobras, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, resigned amid a corruption scandal centred on claims that Petrobras solicited billions of dollars in payments from construction companies, some of which were funnelled to political parties.||2:These include the Workers’ Party, which is led byDilma Rousseff,Brazil’s president.||3:The lower house ofBrazil’s Congress has elected as its Speaker Eduardo Cunha, who has often clashed with Ms Rousseff.
||1:巴西国家石油公司首席执行官玛利亚-福斯特因腐败丑闻辞职。||2:据称,该公司从建筑公司受贿数十亿,其中有一些资金流向政治党派,包括巴西总统罗塞夫领导的工党。||3:巴西国会下议院选举一向与总统唱反调的爱德华多·库尼亚任议长。
||1:He has made a good start, cleaning out the boards of state-owned companies and appointing watchdogs with teeth and the inclination to use them.||2:Shamila Batohi, a tough lawyer from the International Criminal Court in The Hague, recently started work as the country’s chief prosecutor.||3:A judicial commission into allegations of “state capture” under Mr Zuma has heard riveting testimony about how firm sallegedly funnelled cash to politicians for state contracts.||4:One minister’s daughter was said to have crashed so many freebie sports cars that she was offered driving lessons, too.
||1:他已经开了个好头,洗牌国有企业董事会,任命有能力、愿意效力的监管机构。||2:来自海牙国际刑事法院的强硬律师萨米拉·巴托依最近开始担任该国首席检察官。||3:祖马领导下的一个调查“国家俘获”指控的司法委员会听取了很有信服力的证词,内容坚定认为国家合同向政客们输送现金。||4:据说,一位部长的女儿撞坏了很多免费的跑车,以至于被迫上了驾驶课。
are not thrilled to see their cash being funnelled into risky and opaque tech investments at high prices.
看到他们的现金集中在高风险且不透明的高成本科技产业投资中,他们对此并不感兴趣。
The cash was funnelled through shell companies around the world
这笔资金通过全球各地的空壳公司流出
noun
1.A metal chimney on a ship or steam engine.
‘From there the Queen was taken to one of the ship’s giant swimming pools where she was presented with a model of the ship’s funnel by representatives of the St Nazaire shipyard in France where QM2 was built.’
‘The older ships had their own character, with their funnels painted in the line’s colour.’
2.A thing resembling a funnel in shape or function.
‘a funnel of light fell from a circular ceiling’
‘they were close to the middle of the cloud funnel’
3.A tube or pipe that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, used for guiding liquid or powder into a small opening.
‘Approximately 5 ml of this suspension, corresponding to 200 mg of cells, were dispersed onto a nylon membrane using a Buchner funnel to remove liquid medium.’
‘They were shaped differently, more cylindrical, with longer, more narrow funnels at their bases.’
verb
1.Guide or channel (something) through or as if through a funnel.
‘some $12.8 billion was funnelled through the Marshall Plan’
‘The water was funnelled through a gap left to allow access to the fields for farm vehicles leading to widespread flooding of nearby homes.’
2.Move or be guided through or as if through a funnel.
‘the wind funnelled down through the valley’
‘A grey heron was disturbed on its lunchtime patrol, a raptor lumbered over on heavy broad wings, a soft warm wind funnelled up the valley.’
3.Take on the shape of a funnel by widening or narrowing at the end.
‘the crevice funnelled out’
‘All the birds funneled through a narrow corridor and crossed the Equator within a ten-day period in early October.’
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