a fund accumulated to finance a war (or a political campaign)

google has been dipping into its war chest to buy technology startups seen as 「gems」 and to attract and retain talented workers.

对于耀眼的的新兴技术，google一直使用筹措基金加以购买，并且吸引和争取有才华的员工。

industry watchers believe that it is building up a war chest to be used for strategic acquisitions of other businesses, and to secure technology patents.

研究行业动向的专家认为苹果正在用这些资金建立一个战略基金，以进行战略收购和保证其技术专利的安全性。

singapore has a war chest of $450m and in 2010 it will build a 55-hectare (135-acre) clean-tech office park and fund a solar-power research institute.

新加坡则有4.5亿美元的战争基金，至2010年它将建成55公顷（135英亩）清洁能源办公园和一个太阳能研究所。

now things seem to be changing, as diageo dips into a war chest of several billion pounds that it has accumulated in recent years.

现在，情况看来要有变化了，因为帝亚吉欧正把其近几年来积累的数十亿英镑做筹措基金。

but although the arrival of the americans has guaranteed a substantial summer war chest for the spaniard, gillett is not convinced the likes of united and chelsea can be caught straight away.

虽然新来的美国人向贝尼特斯许诺了大金额的夏季”战争储备”，但gillett不相信能立竿见影地赶超曼联和切尔西。

for onething, paul had the war chest to fight back with ads of his own.

一方面，小保罗有足够的选战资金用他自己的广告来反击。

kerry, who came into tuesday「s contests with 19 wins, is now poised to focus his campaign exclusively on defeating bush, whose war chest exceeds $140 million.

克里，挟着19个州的胜利进入星期二的竞赛，现在已準备要专注于打败布什的竞选活动。

with a war chest of about $200m, mr yu is determined to open more schools across china and diversify beyond language training, with maths soon to be added to the curriculum.

坐拥约2亿美元的资金，俞敏洪决心在全国各地开办更多学校，并将业务范围拓展至语言培训以外，新东方很快将增设数学课程。

and while google has made dozens of acquisitions in recent years, most of them have been for less than $1 billion — despite a current war chest of some $40 billion in cash.

谷歌近年来做过数十起收购，但大多数收购的交易额都是在10亿美元以下——尽管谷歌坐拥现金达400亿美元之巨。

of course not all of this money should or would be invested in the domestic economy, but there is no doubt that using china」s huge war chest is an attractive policy option for a rainy day.

当然，这笔资金不应该、也不会完全投资于国内经济。但毫无疑问，在不利情况下，运用巨额储备是一项很有吸引力的政策选择。

this will add to the war chest of the hawkish faction at the ecb, who are reluctant to cut rates so soon after raising them.

这将加大欧洲央行强硬派的筹码，这个阵营的成员不愿在加息后不久就这么快降息。

g20 sources said that up to 50% was likely to be wiped from the face value of greece's €350bn debt – but not until europe had put into place a war chest to prevent the contagion spreading.

20国集团说：「希腊必然性违约达到50%时，很可能消除3500亿欧元的希腊货币债务，不过要在欧洲已经开始发动一场避免危机传染性持续扩大的“战争"之后。」

he added that the fund had not lent during the past five years, and therefore had a sizeable war chest available.

他补充说该基金过去五年没有放贷，因而有大量筹措资金。

in addition to outright acquisitions, the war chest could also fund licensing agreements.

除了直接收购以外，这些资金还用于购买特许使用权。

with a war chest of about $200m, mr yu is determined to open more schools acro china and diversify beyond language training, with maths soon to be added to the curriculum.

坐拥约2亿美元的资金，俞敏洪决心在全国各地开办更多学校，并将业务范围拓展至语言培训以外，新东方很快将增设数学课程。