That's a tidy sum – and that means a large number! OK let's hear those words again, Sophie.

那真是一个巨大的数字！好了，我们再来听一下今天的单词吧，索菲。

We sold the house for a tidy sum and moved south.

【tidy，tidily，tidiness】我们把那座房子卖了一大笔钱，然后移居到了南方。

That will bring us a tidy sum. - No. No, it won't.

能赚不少稿费 - 不 不会的。

From winning the title, Graeme not only gains a tidy sum of money but also jumps from 37th to 13th in the golf world rankings.

格雷姆此次夺冠不仅让他获得了一大笔奖金，还让他在世界高尔夫排名中从第37位越居第13位。

When in luck he was able to make a tidy sum; but the shabbiness of his clothes at last frightened the sight-seers, and he could not find people adventurous enough to trust themselves to him.

但是后来他那身破烂衣服把想观光的人都吓跑了，他找不到敢于把自己交到他手里的冒险家了。

Verily, which besides solving ageing also offers various diagnostics, signed $50m-worth of contracts for covid-19 testing during the pandemic, a tidy sum but chump change next to Alphabet's total annual revenues of nearly $260bn.

Verily 除了解决衰老问题还提供各种诊断，在大流行期间签署了价值 5000 万美元的 covid-19 测试合同， 这是一笔不小的数目， 但与 Alphabet 近 2600 亿美元的年总收入相比微不足道。