The company is short of ready cash.

【ready】公司缺乏现金。

If a business has ready cash, it can go out and buy something and pay for it right away.

如果一家企业有现成的现金，它可以出去买东西并立即付款。

Marjorie: We started doing it because some of our best customers didn't have ready cash.

Marjorie：我们开始这样做是因为我们的一些最好的客户没有现成的现金。

If a business doesn't have ready cash, well, then it doesn't have the money in its bank account to buy the things it needs to buy.

如果一个企业没有现成的现金，那么它的银行账户里就没有钱来购买它需要买的东西。

The entire country suffered from a lack of ready cash and the obvious solution was to borrow money, but with no established credit rating, none of the large European banks were willing to give the United States government a loan.

整个国家都受到现金短缺的困扰，显而易见的解决方案是借钱，但由于没有既定的信用评级，没有一家欧洲大型银行愿意向美国政府提供贷款。

'Twas Brede's wife had hit on the idea of a coffee-shop and lodging-house, the day she sat selling coffee at the auction at Breidablik; 'twas a pleasant enough thing to be selling something, to feel money in her fingers, ready cash.

布雷德的妻子在 Breidablik 的拍卖会上卖咖啡的那一天突然萌生了开咖啡店和旅馆的念头；卖东西是一件很愉快的事情，手指摸到钱，现成的现金。