大家好,今天我們分享的一個短語是—— cook the books, 它的含義不是指「把書煮了」!它真的含義是:
cook the books (尤指為偷錢而)篡改帳目; 做假帳
The accountant at RK. Inc. went to jail for cooking the books.
RK.Inc的會計師因為做假帳被送進了監獄。
My partner had been cooking the books for years, but because I was the CEO, I got the blame for our company's collapse.
我的合伙人在公司做假帳很多年了,但是因為我是CEO, 我們公司的崩潰都歸咎於我。
She knew that when the auditors looked over the books there would be no hiding the fact that she had cooked the books and 3 million was missing.
她知道當審計師查看過帳目之後,她做假帳把300萬英鎊弄走的事情就無可隱藏了。