pocketbook

noun

1. （个人或国家的）财政状况，财力，钱袋子
   used to refer to the financial situation of a person or country. (In the past it was a small flat case for carrying papers or money.)
   1. Many foreign goods are too expensive for American pocketbooks.
      许多外国货都太贵，与一般美国人的财力不符。
   2. The increase is likely to hit the pocketbooks of consumers.
      提价可能会砸到消费者的钱袋子。
2. 记事本；小笔记本
   a small book for writing in
3. 记事本；小笔记本
   a small book for writing in

1. N-COUNT 经济来源；进账；收入
   You can use pocketbook to refer to people's concerns about the money they have or hope to earn.
   1. People feel pinched in their pocketbooks and insecure about their futures.
      人们感到荷包拮据，对未来缺乏安全感。
   2. ...the voters' concerns over pocketbook issues.
      选民对收入问题的关注
2. 女用手提包
   A pocketbook is a small bag which a woman uses to carry things such as her money and keys in when she goes out.

in BRIT, use 英国英语用 handbag, bag


3. 皮夹子；钱包
   A pocketbook is a small flat folded case, usually made of leather or plastic, where you can keep banknotes and credit cards.

in BRIT, usually use 英国英语通常用 wallet

1. People feel pinched in their pocketbooks and insecure about their futures.
   人们感到荷包拮据，对未来缺乏安全感。
2. The 911 grew into a status symbol eventually a clich é for doctors, lawyers, and investment bankers of a certain mindset and pocketbook.
   它甚至成了一个身份的象征，是医生、律师、投行家等成功人士和富人的专宠。
3. He ate the roll and opened the pocketbook.
   他吃了面包，把笔记本打开。
4. So please, ask yourselves, for your health, for your pocketbook, for the environment, for the animals, what's stopping you from giving weekday veg a shot?
   所以，问问自己，为了你的健康、你的钱包、环境、动物等着想，你还有什麽理由不试一下上班日吃素？
5. Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her pocketbook, took out her wallet and showed her worn list to the group.
   接着，另一个同学维姬从手提袋里取出钱包，给大家看那张已经磨损了的纸。
6. It's all there except for a little pocketbook with your monogram on it.
   您的东西全在里面，除了一只小皮夹子，上面有您名字的起首字母。
7. Slowly, though, happier realizations come to her. It was like she was a pocketbook shaken upside down and emotions were spilling all over the place.
   然而，慢慢地，她开始领略到快乐，仿佛把钱包里的情感抖落四处。
8. Island life promised few temptations to the pocketbook.
   岛居生活很少有诱人解囊的刺激。
9. We read about the Easter egg hunt in the pocketbook.
   我们阅读了故事小书上的这一则：复活节-寻蛋游戏。
10. And as a result of that economic incentive, somebody's making money at the expense of the patient's pocketbook, but more importantly at the expense of the patient's health.
    作为那种经济利益驱动的后果，一些人以病人的金钱为代价赚钱，不过更重要的是以病人的健康为代价。
11. Conley isn't shy about saying the ascents are tough, but his own story proves that feeding the soul and feeding the pocketbook are often best done together.
    康利不讳言登高之路备极艰辛，但他自己起死回生的经验证明，满足心灵与满足钱包的工作一起进行效果最佳。
12. Webber's study suggests that putting the brakes on food waste would be good for the planet and the pocketbook.
    韦伯的研究显示，停止食品浪费有利于保护环境，也有利于节约金钱。
13. Hung-chien is saving me from having to take out my pocketbook, so how can I not be pleased?
    鸿渐省得我掏腰包，我何乐而不为？
14. Compared to taking the elevator, walking the stairs cannot only improve our health but also our pocketbook.
    跟搭电梯比起来，走楼梯不仅能让我们健康，还能省下我们一笔钱。
15. The restaurant to which he has agreed to take his luncheon date is far too expensive for his small pocketbook.
    他同意去履行他的午餐约会的那个餐馆对于他的小口袋来说真是太贵了。
16. Take care of your health, your heart and your pocketbook.
    天秤座：注意自己的健康、心脏和钱袋。
17. EasyCruise, a new cruise line which sails around Greece, makes a cruise trip "easy" on the pocketbook too.
    轻松休闲游，是一项新的旅游航线，它航行到希腊。作为这条旅游线路成为“休闲”是基于经济的考虑。
18. It was a millionaire's lifestyle on the pocketbook of a hairdresser ( People) By their standard, we could form 200 divisions out of our 1,200,000 men.
    基于理发师财力的是百万富翁的生活方式（民族）照他们的编法，我们一百二十万人的军队，就可以编二百个师。
19. Just her name was enough to define a pair of shoes, a hat, a pocketbook, a suit, perfume, jewelry-an entire look.
    仅是她的名字就足以定义一双鞋、一顶帽子、一个钱袋、一套衣服、香水、珠宝&整个的外表。
20. She's gonna put the card in her pocketbook.
    她要把牌放进她的钱包里。
21. She was sitting a little sidewise, and in her pocketbook was the pistol, aimed at his belly.
    她就坐在近旁，而且她的手提包里装有手枪，正对着他的腹部。
22. Husband said the wife had300 bucks in the pocketbook.
    丈夫说他妻子钱包里有300块钱。
23. Gerald was likable, and the neighbors learned in time what the children, Negroes and dogs discovered at first sight, that a kind heart, a ready and sympathetic ear and an open pocketbook lurked just behind his bawling voice and his truculent manner.
    杰拉尔德是可爱的，邻居们很快便知道，连他们的孩子，黑奴和狗都一眼就看出这个尽管大喊大叫，举止粗野，但实际上是个好心肠的人，慷慨大方，乐意倾听别人的话。
24. He brought out o his coat a pocketbook bound by a leather thong.
    他从上衣兜里掏出一个用皮条扎起来的皮夹子。
25. I dried my hands and took out my pocketbook from the inside of my tunic hanging on the wall.
    我揩干手，从挂在墙上的制服里掏出皮夹子来。
26. All right, hurry up and give me your watch and pocketbook then!
    这样啊，那么赶快吧你的手表和钱包交给我！
27. From sheer habit Paulie Gatto wondered just how he could go about hijacking that fat pocketbook.
    出于纯粹的习惯，泡利·加托想知道他要怎样才能走来走去地抢劫了那个鼓鼓的钱袋。
28. And how big your, uh* Pocketbook is.
    你口袋里的钞票而定。
29. But there should be no illusions: once legalised, that population will vote with its pocketbook, just like everybody else.
    但不应错误地认为：一旦获得合法身份，这些人口将和其他人一样为了自己的钱袋子投票。
30. The pocketbook that had my name and the letter from my publisher.
    那里有我的名字和出版商的信。

noun

1. a container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
   1. she reached into her bag and found a comb

   Synonym:    baghandbagpurse

2. pocket-sized paperback book

   Synonym:    pocket bookpocket edition

3. a pocket-size case for holding papers and paper money

   Synonym:    walletbillfoldnotecase

4. your personal financial means
   1. that car is too expensive for my pocketbook