天降橫財 (A windfall descending from the sky)

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1.       Gouging (向…漫天要價)

Banks and credit-card companies have been accused of gouging their customers.

銀行和信用卡公司被指控詐取顧客大量金錢。

The airline industry has charged the oil companies with price gouging.

航空業指責石油公司漫天要價。

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2.       Windfall (橫財)

I had a windfall from the football pools.

我從足球比賽賭博中發了一筆橫財。

3.      Lobby(進行遊說: to persuade someone such as a member of a government or council that a particular law should be changed or that a particular thing should be done)

Gun control advocates are lobbying hard for new laws...

槍械管制支持者正努力遊說通過新法。

The aid was frozen in June after intense lobbying by conservative Republicans.

經保守派共和黨人的激烈遊說，援助於6月份被凍結。

How graft-buster morphed into political tool

4. -buster:

(i) A person or thing that stops or gets rid of a specified thing:

He was building his reputation as a crime-buster.他作為罪犯剋星的名頭越來越響。

Fraud-busters

反欺詐能手.

Graft-busters

反貪污人士

(ii) A person who breaks a particular law.

Copyright-busters.

侵犯著作權的人

5.       To morph (銳變成︰undergo or cause to undergo a gradual process of transformation.)

A quiet college student who has morphed into a glamorous actress

He is trying to morph himself into a different person.